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120,000 workers strike in St. Petersburg; government warns against any organised marches.
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Bloody Sunday. 150,000 striking workers and their families march through St. Petersburg to deliver a protest to the Tsar, but they are not heard but insted shot and ridden down on multiple occasions by the army.
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Nicholas II issues the October Manifesto, a liberal scheme proposed by Witte. It grants civil liberties, the need for Duma consent before passing laws and a widening of the Duma electorate to include all Russians; mass celebrations follow; political parties form and rebels return, but acceptance of the Manifesto pushes the liberals and socialists apart. The St. Petersburg soviet prints its first issue of the newsheet Izvestia; left and right groups clash in streetfights.
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Tsar nicholas II and his son reseived membership of the union of the russian people. Also they responced to the supervention in the st pettersburg soviet, the moscow soviet prepares a desparing coup.
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Tsar declares the structure of the state duma and state council. The primised parliament , the duma, is dissolved when it makes an antigivernment majority.
