Luxshwin timeline of russia in 1917 revolution

  • april theses

    Lenin gave out his April theses speech
  • peace negotiations

    Russia opens peace negotiations with Germany
  • strike on bloody Sunday

    140,000 workrs strike in commemoration of the 12th anniversary of bloody Sunday
  • strike because of food shortages

    100,000 workers are still on stike,and the duma attcks government because they couldn't handle the food shortages.
  • Tsar orders death of protesters

    The tsar(Nicholas 2nd) orders the soldiers to kill the protesters an dozens are killed and he also orders he duma to be dissolved permanently
  • Nicholas abdicates in favour of his brother

    after consulting his generals nicholas looks to abdicate in favour of his brother Michael
  • Michael refuses the thone

    Michael refuses the throne and said that he'd be the tsar only if he got voted by the people. This ends 300 years of Romanov rule
  • Nicholas house arrest

    Nicholas and his family are detained in house arrest
  • Baghdad gets captured

    Baghdad gets captured
    The British take control of Baghdad
  • Lenin returns

    Lenin returns to Russia with the help of the german government .
  • declaration of war

    declaration of war
    US declares war on Germany
  • Greece enters war

    Greece enters war
    Greece enters the war and fights by the side of the allies
  • Revolt of workers and peasants

    Revolt of workers and peasants
    The peasants and workers were spontaneously saying that that the Bolsheviks or the soviets should take power.
  • Revolution begins

    Revolution begins
    The October revolution begins . The Bolshevik Central Committee declares that an armed uprising is inevitable. The Petrograd Soviet creates Military Revolutionary Committee