-
The Great Northern War
Called the Second Norhtern war. military conflict in which Russia, Denmark-Norway, and Saxony-Poland challenged the supremacy of Sweden in the Baltic area. -
The Decemberists revolt
Army Officers tried to set up a constitutional monarchy. -
Emancipation of the serfs
On 3 March 1861, 6 years after his accession, the emancipation law was signed and published. -
Awsassanation of Alexander ii
Alexander III, who rejected the Loris-Melikov constitution. Alexander II's assassins were arrested and hanged, and the People's Will was thoroughly suppressed. The peasant revolution advocated by the People's Will was achieved by Vladimir Lenin's Bolshevik revolutionaries in 1917. -
JAPAN WAR
The war began on Feb. 8, 1904, when the main Japanese fleet launched a surprise attack and siege on the Russian naval squadron at Port Arthur. In March the Japanese landed an army in Korea that quickly overran that country. They Fought for Faith, the Czar , and Fatherland.Russia faced humiliating defeat. -
Bloody Sunday
1904 was a bad year for Russian workers. Prices of essential goods rose so quickly that real wages declined by 20 per cent. Over 110,000 workers in St. Petersburg went out on strike. In an attempt to settle the dispute, George Gapon decided to make a personal appeal to Nicholas II. -
Revolution of 1905
the events of 1905 sparked to Revolutiopn of 1905. Riotsand streikes swept the cities. -
March Recvolution 1917
When the strikes and riots began, they did not appear to pose a threat to the Russian monarchy headed by Czar Nicholas II. The New York Times ran a dispatch to The London Daily News with a March 9 dateline. Nicholas Abdicated the throne. -
Czar Nicholas II abdicates the Russian throne
the army garrison at Petrograd joined striking workers in demanding socialist reforms, and Czar Nicholas II was forced to abdicate.
