The 1904-5 Russo-Japanese War and 1905 Revolution

By henry_hollis

  • Russian Naval force at Port Arthur

    Russia seeks access to Port Arthur

  • Boxer Rebellion

  • Anglo-Japanese Alliance

  • Japanese try to negotiate with Russia

  • Russia reponds

    Russias response with its own demands

  • Japan severes diplomatic relations

  • Japan declares war

    Japan declare war three hours after attacking the Russian fleet at Port Arthur. The Japanese army occupies much of Korea.

  • Blockade of Port Arthur begins

  • Japan attacks Port Arthurs land defences

  • Russians attempt breakout from Port Arthur

    2 Russian battleships attempt to break the blockade but are sunk by Japanese mines.

  • Battle of Yalu River.

    First land engagement. Russian Eastern Detachment defeated.

  • Japanese Battleships sunk

    2 Japanese battleships are lured into Russian minefield and sunk.

  • Battle of Nanshan

    Japanese attack Russian position in Manchuria. They suffer heavy losses using massed infantry against entrenched defences.

  • Russians attempt another breakout

    The Russian fleet is forced back by the Japanese navy.

  • Battle of Liaoyang

    An attempt to relieve Port Arthur ends in defeat and the Russian army retreats to Mukden.

  • Battle of Yellow Sea

    After a sortie the Russian fleet looses their Admiral and a battleship retreat back to Port Arthur.

  • Moscow Duma demands National Legislature

  • Japan seizes advantage at Port Arthur

    The Japanese finally take the hipptop bastion nd are able to fire their artiller y on the Russian fleet. All 5 battleships and 2 cruisers are sunk.

  • Port Arthur Surrenders

  • St Petersburg Strike

  • Bloody Sunday

    Several hundred killed by Guards at the Winter Palace. The march led by Father Gapon, seriously weakened the peoples view of the Tsar as their protector.

  • Striking Workers killed

    80 strikers in Riga killed.

  • Battle of Sandepu

    A Russian attack almost succeeds, but lack of support from other elements sees the attack end.

  • Tsar agrees to State Duma

  • Battle of Mukden

    After days of fighting the Russians were forced to retreat. Japan lost 90,000 killed.

  • Zemstvo seeks representation

    300 Zemstvo meet to demand franchise.

  • Battle of Tsushima

    The Baltic Fleet after sailing 18,000 Km is defeated

  • Battleship Potemkin

    Mutiny is brutally put down.
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    Peasant Uprisings

  • Treaty of Portsmouth

    Russo Japanese War ends

  • October Manifesto

    In general most Liberal accepted its terms. The Revolution began to lose its momentum.
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    General Strikes in Moscow

    These brutally are put down by the Army