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Events that lead to the downfall of the Romanov Dynasty

By purplesplotch
  • Period: to

    Czar Nicholas' Rule

  • Alexei was born

    Alexei was born

  • Russia and Japan

    Russia and Japan
    The relationship between Russia and Japan begins to deteriorte. Created the Russo-Japanese war, which the Russians sadly lost.

  • Bloody Sunday

    Bloody Sunday
    Demonstrators marched at the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg. Troops surrounded them and opened fire. The people where clearly devoted to Nichoas, and he, himself never gave orders to open fire. This began the public hatred towards Nicholas.

  • October Manifesto

    October Manifesto
    Promised to introduce basic civil liberies to the Russian populace.

  • World War 1

    World War 1
    World war 1 begins. Russia become on the side aganist Germany and Austria-Hungary.

  • Poland

    Poland
    Russia losses Poland to Germans.

  • End

    End
    Popular opposition forced Nicholas to abdicate, which ended the Romanov dynasty. Nicholas was imprisoned with his family in there house on July 16, 1918.