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Mikhail Romanov elected Tsar by the National Council, beginning the Romanov Dynasty.
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The first Tsar to use the title 'Emperor'
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St Petersburg established as new capital
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Romanov Empire Expanded to include Crimea, Ukraine, Georgia and some parts of Poland
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Napoleon Invades Russia; Tsar Alexander I ordered the burning of Moscow, resulting in Napolean's defeat.
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Russian army officers tried to force the new Tsar, Nicholas I, to introduce political reform in the Decembrist Uprising.
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Crimean War results in humilating defeat for Russia.
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Emancipation Edict abolished serfdom in Russia.
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Alexander II assassinted by terroist group The People's Will
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Russian Social Democratic Party split into Menshivik and Bolshevik factions.
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Strikes in St Petersburg's Putilov Metalworks factory spread quickly to other parts of the empire.
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Russo- Japenese War resulted in the 1905 Revolution and the announcment of the October Manifesto
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Bloody Sunday shootings lead to widespread unrest
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Russia's Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich was assassinated
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First Russian 'Soviet' (workers and soldiers council) was established to organize political activity in protest against the Tsar. Soviets would become an important political force again in 1917.
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Unrest reached Russia's military, and the sailors on the 'Potemkin' battleship mutinied.
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Some peasant groups and national minirities made public demands for autonomy, threatening the stability of the empire.
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Facing as many as 2 million strikers across the empire and increasing terroist activity, Nicholas released the October Manifesto. Most strikes were settled, but assassinations and revolutionary activity continued.
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Russia involved in the First World War.
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Nicholas II abdicated and power was tranferred to the Provisional Government
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Bolshevik party seized power from the Provisional Government in a coup.
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Romanov Family executed in Ekaterinburg by Bolshevik agents as the Russian Civil War escalated.