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The February Revolution begins with strikes, demonstrations, and mutinies in Petrograd
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The July Days begin in Petrograd with spontaneous protests against the Provisional Government; after the Bolsheviks unsuccessfully try to direct these protests into a coup, Lenin is forced into hiding
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The Kornilov Affair, a failed coup by General Lavr Kornilov, commander of the Russian Army
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the Bolsheviks take over Petrograd (also called the November Revolution if following the Gregorian calendar)
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The Winter Palace, the last holdout of the Provisional Government, is taken by the Bolsheviks; the Council of People's Commissars (abbreviated as Sovnarkom), led by Lenin, is now in control of Russia
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The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, between Germany and Russia, is signed and takes Russia out of World War I
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Russian civil war begins
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Czar Nicholas II and his family are executed
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An assassination attempt leaves Lenin seriously wounded
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Russian civil war ends
