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Lenin's brother, Alexander Ulyanov, is hanged for plotting to kill Czar Alexander III
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Czar Alexander III dies after a sudden illness and his son, Nicholas II, becomes the ruler of Russia
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Czar Nicholas II marries Alexandra Fedorovna
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Lenin is arrested, kept in solitary confinement for 13 months, and then exiled to Siberia for three years
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the revolution triumphed when regiment after regiment of the Petrograd garrison defected to the cause of the demonstrators. The soldiers subsequently formed committees that elected deputies to the Petrograd Soviet.
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the Petrograd Soviet issued Order No. 1, which instructed Russian soldiers and sailors to obey only those orders that did not conflict with the directives of the Soviet.
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leftist revolutionaries led by Bolshevik Party leader Vladimir Lenin launched a nearly bloodless coup d’état against the provisional government. The Bolsheviks and their allies occupied government buildings and other strategic locations in Petrograd, and soon formed a new government with Lenin as its head.
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The Latvians declare their independence from Russia but find it hard to celebrate while occupying Germans are still sitting on their laps.
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The Constituent Assembly gathers. The Bolsheviks demand that authority should be given to the Soviets. The Assembly refuses. The Bolsheviks and the Left Socialist Revolutionaries walk out.
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Ukrainians declare their independence from Russia.
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Civil War breaks out in Finland as a result of the recent Finnish declaration of independence from Russia.
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Trotsky declares that Russia is out of WWI.
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Some Russian locations dragged their feet buying new calendars, so we will keep showing old style dates a little while longer.
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While still under German occupation, the Lithuanians declare their independence from Russia
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The Reds capture Kiev. They will stay in town until March 3, 1918, when the Germans will knock on the doors.