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12th Anniversary of Bloody Sunday
In commemoration of Bloody Sunday 12 years before, when a huge strike of peaceful unarmed workers was cut down with Tsar Nicholas the second ordering the shooting of the peasants, over 140,000 Russian workers go on strike. -
Silvertown Explosion
A community in the East End of London was destroyed by a huge explosion that was caused when the Brunner Mond munitions factory blew up. -
the first Russian revolution
The February Russian revolution starts -
Tsarist government announces food rationing
food availability is already low, and then the government announces food rations and there is a panic buying in cities, resulting in even more chaos as the February revolution starts to unfold. -
International Woman's Day
Marchers for International Women's Day are gathering across cities, being joined by workers and socialist agitators, who are also on strike -
Tsar orders troops to fire on protesters
Nicholas the second orders his troops to fire on the troublesome protesters, and dozens are killed. The Tsar also orders for the Duma to be permanently dissolved, however this is ignored. -
Garrisons shoot their officers
Two garrisons of soldiers in Petrograd, instead of following orders and shooting the citizens, shoot their officers. -
Nicholas II abdicates
The Tsar, Nicholas the second, meets the Duma's Provisional Government committee, who demand that he abdicates. After consultation with his generals, Nicholas abdicates in favour of his brother Michael. -
Baghdad Falls
The British Indian army captured Baghdad after a series of defeats to the Ottoman Empire in the First World War. -
July days uprising
Workers and soldiers revolt in Petrograd, demanding that either the Soviets or the Bolsheviks take charge. Both parties refuse, and the rebellion is crushed by the Government's military forces. -
The Kornilov affair
General Kornilov announces that he will be marching on Petrograd and freeing the country from the radical socialists. He also claims to have the support of the Provisional Government, but this is unclear. -
The second Russian revolution: overthrowing of the Government
The Government in Russia had only just made the king abdicate a few months before, when Vladimir Lenin, leader of the Bolsheviks, a party who believed that the working class would liberate themselves from the aristocracy, overthrew them and gave all of the power to the Soviets, councils around Russia that were elected by the people.
