The Rise and Fall of the Romanov Dynasty

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  • The Romanov Dynasty Begins

    Mikhail Romanov elected Tsar by the National Council, beginning the Romanov Dynasty.
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    Rule of Peter I

    The first Tsar to use the title 'Emperor'

  • St Petersburg established

    St Petersburg established as new capital
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    Romanov Empire Expanded

    Romanov Empire Expanded to include Crimea, Ukraine, Georgia and some parts of Poland

  • Napoleon Invades

    Napoleon Invades Russia; Tsar Alexander I ordered the burning of Moscow, resulting in Napolean's defeat.

  • Attempt to Introduce Political Reform

    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

    Crimean War results in humilating defeat for Russia.

  • Emancipation Edict

    Emancipation Edict abolished serfdom in Russia.

  • Tsar Assassinated

    Alexander II assassinted by terroist group The People's Will
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    Rule of Nicholas II

  • Russian Social Democratic Party split

    Russian Social Democratic Party split into Menshivik and Bolshevik factions.

  • Strikes in St Petersburg

    Strikes in St Petersburg's Putilov Metalworks factory spread quickly to other parts of the empire.
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    Russo- Japenese War

    Russo- Japenese War resulted in the 1905 Revolution and the announcment of the October Manifesto

  • Bloody Sunday

    Bloody Sunday shootings lead to widespread unrest

  • Russia's Grand Duke Assassinated

    Russia's Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich was assassinated

  • First Russian 'Soviet' Established

    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.

  • Unrest in Military

    Unrest reached Russia's military, and the sailors on the 'Potemkin' battleship mutinied.

  • Public demands for Autonomy

    Some peasant groups and national minirities made public demands for autonomy, threatening the stability of the empire.

  • October Manifesto Released

    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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    WWI

    Russia involved in the First World War.

  • Nicholas II Abdicated

    Nicholas II abdicated and power was tranferred to the Provisional Government

  • Bolshevik party seized power

    Bolshevik party seized power from the Provisional Government in a coup.

  • Romanov Family Executed

    Romanov Family executed in Ekaterinburg by Bolshevik agents as the Russian Civil War escalated.