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Alexander II began to riegn as emperor.
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Emancipation reform of 1861
Alexander issued a manifesto emancipating the serfs; Student Protests against the Tsar. -
Alexander III began to reign as emperor
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The Russo-Japanese War
The Japanese launched a surprise torpedo attack on the Russian Navy at Port Arthur. -
Russian Revolution of 1905
A strike began at Putilov Works in St. Petersburg. -
Bloody Sunday
Peaceful demonstrators arrived at the Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg to present a petition to the tsar, leading was a priest named Georgi Gapon. The Imperial guard fired on the crowd, killing 200 and wounding 800. -
Russo-Japanese War ended
The treaty of Portsmouth was signed. Russian property and territory was given to Japan, ending the war. -
Russian Legislative Election
The first free elections to the Duma gave majorities to liberal and socialists parties. -
The first Duma was called.
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Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria was assassinated by Gavrilo Prancip of the Bosnian Separatist group Young Bosnia. -
February Revolution
Nicholas abdicated. -
The Provisional Government
The Provisional Government established the autonomous province of Estonia and scheduled elections to an Estonian legislative body, the Maapäev. -
Mass conscription to the Res Army
Began in Moscow and Petrograd. -
Soviet Russia signed the Treaty of Brest-Lovsk.
This ended the participation in WWI, relinquishing Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Belarus, and Ukraine, and ceding to the Ottoman Empire all territory captured in the Russo-Turkish War. -
Red Army Invasion of Gerogia
The Eleventh Army crossed into Georgia.