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Lenin gave out his April theses speech
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Russia opens peace negotiations with Germany
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140,000 workrs strike in commemoration of the 12th anniversary of bloody Sunday
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100,000 workers are still on stike,and the duma attcks government because they couldn't handle the food shortages.
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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
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after consulting his generals nicholas looks to abdicate in favour of his brother Michael
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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
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Nicholas and his family are detained in house arrest
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The British take control of Baghdad
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Lenin returns to Russia with the help of the german government .
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US declares war on Germany
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Greece enters the war and fights by the side of the allies
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The peasants and workers were spontaneously saying that that the Bolsheviks or the soviets should take power.
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The October revolution begins . The Bolshevik Central Committee declares that an armed uprising is inevitable. The Petrograd Soviet creates Military Revolutionary Committee
