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Tsar Alexander II passes the Emancipation Edict (the reform abolished serfdom [peasants under feud] throughout the Russian Empire)
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An attempt to assassinate Tsar Alexander II failed, killing 11 and wounding 56.
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March of 1881, he was killed by a member of the radical group "People’s Will". He was overtaken by his son, Alexander III.
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Famine in Russia killed between 375,000 and 400,000 and affected millions more.
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Died after a sudden illness; his son Nicholas (Nicholas II) takes the throne.
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1st August 1914 Germany declares war on Russia, with Russia entering the First World War.
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In July of 1917- FINALLY, women are granted the right to vote and hold office!
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Russia is declared as a republic in September
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An armistice between Russia and the Central Powers is signed, and fighting stops in the December of 1917.
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3rd March 1918- Russia finishes its participation in the First World War. Russia loses one-third of the old empire’s population, one-third of its railway network, half its industry, three-quarters of its supplies of iron ore, nine-tenths of its coal resources and much of its food supplies. This was extremely unfair and left most of Russia depressed.
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December 1922- Creation of the Soviet Union.
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German forces invaded Poland resulting in World War 2 which then caused Russia to occupy Poland.
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In August, The United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki which resulted in the ending of WW2.
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The Soviet Union launches Sputnik, a news agency, news website platform and radio broadcast service.
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Yuri Gagarin becomes the first astronaut. He was a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut. He became the first human to launch into outer space when his Vostok spacecraft completed one orbit of the Earth on 12 April 1961.
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The Berlin Wall was a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989.
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Russia launches the MIR, a space station that operated in low Earth orbit from 1986 to 2001. It had a greater mass than any previous spacecraft.
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The Berlin Wall is destroyed
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The Soviet Union is dismantled and Russia becomes an independent federation
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In March 2000, President Vladimir Putin wins election.
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Mr Putin wins second presidential term by far, consolidating his power.
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October- Opposition parties accuse the authorities of rigging local elections, as the governing United Russia party wins every poll by a wide margin.
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March- Putin was voted leader once again.
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August-Russia formally joins the World Trade Organization after 18 years of negotiations.
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September- Russia carries out first air strikes in Syria, saying it targets the Islamic State group.
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In March, there was a poisoning of former spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in Salisbury, which Britain pinned firmly on Russia.
