Russian History Timeline (Part 2)

Events 201 - 400 of 1,103

• 1829-03-22 The three protecting powers (Britain, France and Russia) establish the borders of Greece
• 1829-09-14 Peace of Adrianopel: ends Russian-Turkish war
• 1829-09-24 Russia & Ottoman Empire sign Peace Treaty of Adrianople

• 1829-11-20 Jews expelled from Nikolayev & Sevastopol, Russia
• 1830-11-29 November Uprising: An armed rebellion against Russia's rule beings in Poland begins
• 1831-02-20 Polish revolutionaries defeat Russians in battle of Growchow
• 1833-05-02 Russian Tsar Nicolas I bans the public sale of serfs
• 1833-07-08 Russia and Turkey sign defense treaty

• 1837-02-10 Russian poet Alexander Pushkin is fatally injured in a duel with French officer Georges-Charles de Heeckeren d'Anthès (1/29 OS)
• 1845-08-06 The Russian Geographical Society is founded in Saint Petersburg

• 1849-04-23 Russian writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky and members of the Petrashevsky Circle are arrested in St. Petersburg
• 1849-08-09 Hungarian Republic crushed by Austria & Russia
• 1849-11-16 Russian court sentences Fyodor Dostoevsky to death for anti-government activities linked to a radical intellectual group; his sentence is later commuted to hard labor
• 1849-12-22 The execution of Russian writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky by firing squad is called off at the last second
• 1853-08-08 Russian fleet appears at Nagasaki, Japan
• 1853-10-04 Ottoman Empire declares war on the Russian Empire starting the Crimean War after various disagreements including Russian occupation of the Ottoman controlled Danubian Principalities
• 1854-03-28 Great Britain and France declare war on Russia, expanding the Crimean War
• 1854-09-04 English and French lay siege to the eastern Russian city of Petropavlovsk Kamchatsky during the Crimean war

• 1854-11-05 Crimean War: British & French defeat Russian force of 50,000 at Inkerman
• 1855-03-02 Aleksandr Romanov becomes tsar of Russia
• 1855-09-08 British and French troops capture Sevastopol from the Russians, effectively ending the Crimean War

• 1856-04-18 Russian Chancellor Count Nesselrode resigns
• 1857-09-23 Russian warship Leffort disappears in a storm in the Gulf of Finland; 826 die
• 1858-06-29 Treaty of Algun: China cedes north bank of Amur River to Russia
• 1858-07-02 Partial emancipation of Russian serfs
• 1860-06-12 The State Bank of the Russian Empire is established
• 1861-02-27 Russians shoot at Poles protesting Russian rule of Poland in Castle Square, Warsaw

• 1861-10-06 Revolt of Russian student shuts down university of Petersburg

• 1862-07-01 The Russian State Library is founded in Moscow
• 1863-01-22 January Uprising begins in Poland, prompted a rebellion against conscription into the Russian army
• 1863-01-22 The January Uprising, an insurrection in Russia's Kingdom of Poland aimed at restoration of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth begins; carries on for 1-1/2 years, but fails
• 1863-10-01 5 Russian warships welcomed in NYC
• 1864-05-21 Russia declares an end to the Russian-Circassian War and many Circassians are forced into exile. The day is designated to be the Circassian Day of Mourning.
• 1864-06-18 The January Uprising, an insurrection in Russia's Kingdom of Poland aimed at restoration of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth is quashed after 1-1/2 years
• 1866-04-04 Russian Tsar Alexander II of Russia narrowly escapes an assassination attempt by Dmitry Karakozov in the city of St. Petersburg

• 1867-10-18 Alaska Purchase: US takes formal possession of Alaska from Russia, having paid $7.2 million
• 1868-09-25 The Imperial Russian steam frigate Alexander Nevski shipwrecks off Jutland while carrying Grand Duke Alexei of Russia

• 1875-08-22 The Treaty of Saint Petersburg between Japan and Russia is ratified, providing for the exchange of Sakhalin for the Kuril Islands.
• 1877-02-04 Ludwig Minkus' ballet "La Bayadère", choreographed by Marius Petipa premieres at Imperial Bolshoi Kamenny Theatre in St. Petersburg, Russia
• 1877-04-24 Russo-Turkish War, 1877-78: Russia declares war on the Ottoman Empire
• 1877-07-19 Russo-Turkish War: First Russian assault on Plevna, Ottoman Empire (now Pleven, Bulgaria) fails; 3,000 Russian and 2,000 Turk casualties
• 1877-07-31 Russo-Turkish War: Second Russian assault on Plevna, Ottoman Empire (now Pleven, Bulgaria) fails; 7,300 Russian and over 2,000 Turk casualties
• 1877-09-11 Russo-Turkish War: Third Russian assault on Plevna, Ottoman Empire (now Pleven, Bulgaria), aided by Romanian forces mostly fails, although the Romanians take Grivitsa; up to 20,000 Russian and 6,000 Turk casualties
• 1877-10-24 Russo-Turkish War: Russian and Romanian forces encircle Plevna, Ottoman Empire (now Pleven, Bulgaria), choking off supplies
• 1877-11-17 Russia launches a surprise night attack that overruns Turkish forces at Kars, Armenia
• 1877-12-09 Russo-Turkish War: Turkish troops attempt to break Russian and Romanian encirclement of Plevna, Ottoman Empire (now Pleven, Bulgaria), fails
• 1878-01-16 Captain Burago with a squadron of Russian Imperial army dragoons liberates Plovdiv from Ottoman rule
• 1878-03-03 Treaty of San Stefano signed by Russian and Ottoman empires grants independence to Bulgaria after 500 years of Turkish rule
• 1878-07-13 Congress of Berlin ends, redrawing the terms of Treaty of San Stefano to give Russia less influence in old Ottoman Empire
• 1879-02-27 Russian-American chemist Constantin Fahlberg discovers an artificial sweetener (later named 'saccharin'), while working on coal tar analysis at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland [1]
• 1879-05-16 Treaty of Gandamak to set up Afghan state between Russia & English
• 1880-02-17 Alexander II of Russia survives an assassination attempt
• 1880-06-08 Russian writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky delivers an emotional speech at the unveiling of a monument to Pushkin in Moscow
• 1881-02-24 China and Russia sign the Sino-Russian Ili Treaty.
• 1881-03-13 Alexander II of Russia is assassinated by members of far-left terror group 'People's Will' who throw a bomb at him in the city of St. Petersburg
• 1881-04-27 Pogroms against Russian Jews start in Elisabethgrad
• 1882-01-25 Bilu, a Russian Zionist organization, forms

• 1882-07-06 14 Russian Jews from Bilu arrive in Jaffa, Palestine
• 1882-07-13 200 die as train derails near Tcherny, Russia
• 1883-05-27 Alexander III crowned Tsar of Russia in Moscow

• 1885-03-30 The Battle for Kushka triggers the Pandjeh Incident which nearly gives rise to war between the British Empire and Russian Empire
• 1885-11-17 The Serbian Army, with Russian support, invades Bulgaria
• 1887-06-18 The Reinsurance Treaty between Germany and Russia is signed
• 1887-08-19 Dmitri Mendeleev makes a solo ascent by balloon to an altitude of 11,500 feet (3.5 km) above Klin, Russia to observe an eclipse

• 1891-04-23 Jews are expelled from Moscow, Russia
• 1892-02-03 Russia closes down the Volozhin Yeshiva, a Lithuanian talmudical college
• 1892-08-17 Russian and French generals, Obruchev and Boisdeffre sign Double Alliance
• 1892-12-18 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's ballet "The Nutcracker" premieres in Saint Petersburg, Russia, now the world's most performed ballet; his final opera "Isolanta" also premieres
• 1893-01-17 Franco-Russian Alliance is signed
• 1893-12-17 Russia ratifies Double Alliance with France
• 1893-12-30 Russia signs military accord with France
• 1894-01-04 France ratifies Duple Alliance with Russia

• 1895-05-07 Russian scientist Alexander Stepanovich Popov demonstrates to the Russian Physical and Chemical Society his invention - the world's first radio receiver in St. Petersburg. Celebrated as Radio Day in Russia.
• 1895-06-29 Doukhobors burn their weapons as a protest against conscription by the Tsarist Russian government.
• 1896-05-18 Khodynka Tragedy: A stampeding crowd on Khodynka Field, Moscow, during the festivities for coronation of Russian Tsar Nicholas II, causes the deaths of an estimated 1,300 people
• 1896-05-26 Last Tsar of Russia, Nicholas II, crowned
• 1898-10-01 Tsar Nikolay II expels Jews from major Russian cities
• 1900-02-14 Russia responds to international pressure to free Finland by tightening imperial control over the country
• 1900-03-18 Japan uses its influence over Korea to deny Russia's efforts to obtain a naval station at Korean Port of Masampo, the lead up to the Russo-Japanese war
• 1900-06-25 Russia mobilizes its army in eastern Siberia preparatory to acting against the Chinese, but also in an attempt to diminish the influence of Japan on the Asian mainland
• 1900-06-26 The Russian Tsar orders that Russian must be the official language of Finland, despite growing unrest within Finland and increasing international concern over Russia's behavior there
• 1900-07-03 Trying to stem the growing popular resentment, Tsar Nicholas of Russia issues a decree that abolishes the banishment of dissidents and troublemakers to Siberia
• 1900-07-16 Russia launch an offensive against the Chinese in Manchuria
• 1900-08-04 An allied expeditionary force, made up of Japanese, Russian, British, French and American troops, sets off from Tientsin for Peking, China, to put down Boxer rebellion
• 1900-08-05 In Russia, anti-Jewish riots spread from Odessa into other parts of the country
• 1900-08-15 Russian troops advance further unto Manchuria
• 1900-09-03 Russian troops now control both sides of the Amur River on the Russo-Manchurian boundary
• 1900-10-10 In Manchuria, Russia captures the major city of Mukden, part of their own plan to take over the whole province
• 1900-11-09 China has resumed nominal control of Manchuria, but in a secret agreement the Chinese governor of Manchuria grants Russia such rights as keeping troops along the railroad lines and controlling civil administration
• 1901-10-16 Baron Hayashi of Japan begins negotiations in London to make an alliance with the British and strengthen Japan's position against Russians
• 1901-11-27 Prince Ito of Japan comes to St Petersburg hoping to get the Russians to grant Japan concessions in Korea, but later drops this goal and decides to make an alliance with Britain
• 1902-02-01 US Secretary of State John Hay protests granting Russia exclusive privileges in China, on ground that it runs contrary to the 'open door' policy granting all nations equal rights there
• 1902-03-20 France and Russia issue a joint declaration that approves the Anglo-Japanese Alliance, but stipulates that they have the right to protect interests in China and Korea
• 1902-03-25 In Russia, 567 students are tried for rioting and 'political disaffection' are found guilty; 95 are banished to Siberia
• 1902-04-02 Dmitry Sipyagin, Minister of Interior of the Russian Empire, is assassinated by a terrorist in the Marie Palace, St Petersburg
• 1902-04-08 Russia and China sign the Convention of Evacuation under which Russia agrees to evacuate Manchuria within 18 months
• 1902-04-15 Rioting and arson continue in Russia with peasants plundering estates to find food.
• 1902-04-15 Russian minister of interior and head of secret police, Sipyengin, is assassinated by the 'Terror Brigade' of the Socialist Revolutionaries
• 1903-02-23 The Sultan agrees to an Austro-Russian plan to reform the government of Macedonia in yet another effort to stifle the rising disorder among the rival Bulgarian
• 1903-06-24 Russia prohibits meetings dealing with Zionism
• 1903-07-17 The Russian Social Democratic Workers Party meets, first in Brussels and then London because their leaders have been forced into exile by the Russian Government
• 1903-08-12 The Japanese Minister to Russia presents a note to the Russian Government protesting against its failure to evacuate Manchuria
• 1903-08-29 The Finance Minister, Count Witte, is dismissed in what is seen as a victory for those in Russia who want their country to expand into Manchuria and Korea in defiance of the Japanese
• 1903-10-16 Homel, 1st Jewish self defense organization founded in Russia
• 1903-10-30 In violation of their promise to evacuate Manchuria, the Russian reoccupy Mukden and reinforce their troops in Manchuria
• 1904-02-06 Japan notifies Russia that in view of Russia's delaying tactics and provocative military action, Japan is ending negotiations and recalling its members from Moscow

• 1904-02-10 Japan and Russia declare war
• 1904-03-06 The Japanese fleet bombards Vladivostok, the major Russian port on the Pacific
• 1904-04-13 A squadron of the Russian fleet is decoyed out of Port Arthur by Japanese maneuvers, when they realize they are sailing into a trap; their battleship Petropavlovsk hits a mine and sinks, with a loss of 700 men
• 1904-04-26 General Kuroko leads the Japanese Army against the large Russian force at the Yalu river during the Russo-Japanese War
• 1904-05-26 In two days of bitter fighting, the Japanese Army soundly defeats the Russians at Kinchan and captures the forts at Nanshan
• 1904-06-14 At the battle of Telissu, the Japanese rout the Russians and inflict heavy casualties
• 1904-07-06 Two Russian cruisers move into the Red Sea and begin to stop ships of Britain, Germany, and other nations they believe friendly to Japan
• 1904-07-28 Interior Minister of Russia, Vyacheslav Plehve is assassinated; as leader of the most reactionary elements of government, he was hated for his repressive policies
• 1904-08-10 Battle of the Yellow Sea: Japanese fleet prevented Russians breaking out of Port Arthur
• 1904-08-11 The Russian fleet in the harbor of at Port Arthur is exposed to Russian guns on the hill above the harbor; Russian ships attempt escape, but most are forced back into harbor by Japanese ships
• 1904-08-24 Battle of Liao-Yang-200,000 Japanese against 150,000 Russian, Japanese tactical victory
• 1904-10-15 The Russians are driven back by the Japanese in the Battle of Shaho; both sides suffer high casualties: Japanese (16,000) and Russians (60,000)
• 1904-10-16 Russian Baltic fleet departs to Port Arthur
• 1904-10-22 Russian fleet shoots at British fishing ship

• 1905-01-02 Japanese troops capture Port Arthur from Russia, a blow to national morale and causing further discontent within Russia

• 1905-01-29 Tsar Nicolas II of Russia, unsettled by the rising violence and protest, enacts reforms to improve the conditions of workers; these changes will do little to stop disorder throughout Russia in ensuing months
• 1905-03-03 Tsar Nicholas II of Russia agrees to summon a 'consultative assembly' and concedes other points including an edict of religious toleration, relief for Jews, and the cancellation of certain debts
• 1905-05-08 Union of Unions organizes In Russia under the chairmanship of Paul Miliukov and joins liberal groups demanding parliamentary government and universal suffrage
• 1905-05-26 A pogrom against Jews in Minsk, Belorussia

• 1905-06-18 Russian police open fire on a workers' rights demonstration in Łódź, Congress Poland, killing 10, and leading to an armed insurrection against the occupying forces
• 1905-06-21 Polish workers in Łódź, Congress Poland stage strikes and insurrection against Russian occupation; quashed by tsars' troops after a few days
• 1905-06-25 Tsarist Russian troops in Łódź, Congress Poland crush workers' militia insurrection against Russian occupation; 151-200 workers killed and over 1,000 injured
• 1905-06-27 Russian sailors mutiny aboard battleship "Potemkin" and sail for Odessa
• 1905-06-30 In Russia, the "Potemkin" arrives at Odessa, where sailors take the bodies of dead crewman ashore; sailors join civilians in revolutionary actions of the '1905 Revolution'
• 1905-06-30 The crew of the Russian battleship "Georgei Pobiedonosets" mutinies in support of the "Potemkin", which mutinied three days earlier
• 1905-07-08 The soldiers of the Russian battleship "Potemkin" who mutinied, surrender to Romanian authorities, who turn ship over to Russian authorities soon after
• 1905-07-24 Tsar Nicholas II (Russia) and Emperor Wilhelm II (Germany) sign the Björkö Treaty, whereby each country agrees to come to the other's defense if attacked by European powers
• 1905-08-05 First meeting of the Russian and Japanese peace commissioners takes place in US President Theodore Roosevelt's home at Oyster Bay, New York
• 1905-08-19 Russian Tsar Nicholas II installs "Imperial Duma", without legislative powers
• 1905-09-05 50 prominent men meet in Sydney's Australia Hotel to found the National Defense League fueled by fear of Japan after its victory over Russia
• 1905-10-20 Great General Strike in Russia begins; lasts 11 days
• 1905-10-20 Russian Tsar Nicholas II allows the Poles to speak Polish to help quell the revolution in the Kingdom of Poland
• 1905-10-26 First Soviet (workers' council) formed, St Petersburg, Russia
• 1905-10-30 "October Manifesto" Russian Tsar Nicholas II grants civil liberties and accepts the first Duma (Parliament)
• 1905-11-03 Tsar Nicholas II of Russia signs a document of amnesty for the political prisoners
• 1905-11-10 Sailors join the rebellion at Kronstadt naval base in Russia
• 1905-11-16 Dutch Russian Count Witte becomes Prime Minister of Russia
• 1905-11-22 British, Italian, Russian, French and Austro-Hungarian fleet attacks Lesbos
• 1906-05-02 Tsar Nicolas II of Russia dismisses his moderate Prime Minister Witte and appoints Ivan Goremykin, a conservative bureaucrat
• 1906-05-06 Tsar Nicolas II of Russia claims right to legislate by decree and restricts the power of the Duma (Russian Parliament)
• 1906-05-10 Russian Duma (Parliament) meets for 1st time
• 1906-06-14 Pogrom against Jews in Bialystok, Polish Russia
• 1906-07-23 Pogroms against Jews in Odessa, Russia
• 1906-11-22 Peter Stolypin, Prime Minister of Russia, introduces agrarian reforms allowing peasants to withdraw from the communes and take their share of land for private ownership
• 1907-03-05 The second Duma opens in St. Petersburg, Russia and 40,000 demonstrators have to be dispersed by Russian troops
• 1907-06-16 Tsar Nicolas II of Russia dissolves the Second Duma (parliament) and issues an edict that will increase representation of propertied classes while reducing that of peasants, workers and national minorities
• 1907-07-30 Russia and Japan sign an agreement guaranteeing freedom of China while recognizing each other's special interests
• 1907-08-03 Emperor Wilhelm (Germany) meets with Tsar Nicholas (Russia) to discuss Germany's plan to build a railroad to Baghdad; the discussion helps move Russia towards Britain and eventually the Triple Alliance
• 1907-08-31 Britain & Russia sign treaty with Afghanistan, Persia & Tibet
• 1907-08-31 Britain, Russia & France form Triple Entente

• 1907-11-14 The Third Duma (Parliament) meets in Russia; following Tsar Nicholas II's limiting of the franchise, a conservative majority holds sway and suppresses the radical elements
• 1908-06-09 King Edward VII of Great Britain visits Tsar Nicholas II at Reval, Russia, where the two discuss the growing power of Germany and British plans for reform in Macedonia
• 1908-06-23 Shah Mohammed Ali leads a successful counter-revolution in Persia, aided by the Russian legation and a Cossack brigade

• 1908-09-09 Russia annexes part of Poland

• 1909-02-23 Russian Tsar Nicholas II dissolves Finnish Diet
• 1909-03-18 Russia and Bulgaria reach an agreement in which late 19th century Russian financial claims are cancelled to meet compensation due to Turkey from Bulgaria
• 1909-03-21 Germany sends Russia a diplomatic notes requesting recognition of the Austrian annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and cessation of support to Serbia in the controversy
• 1909-03-26 In support of Mohammed Ali Shah's coup d'etat against the constitutional government in Persia, a Russian military force invades northern Persia to relieve the siege of Tabriz
• 1909-10-24 Italy and Russia sign the Racconigi Pact in which both nations promise to support the status quo in the Balkans
• 1910-01-21 British-Russian military intervention in Persia
• 1910-07-04 In a mutual defense agreements, Japan and Russia delineate their spheres of interest in Manchuria
• 1910-11-04 Russian Tsar Nicholas II visits German Emperor Wilhelm II at Potsdam; they force tentative agreements on spheres of influence in the Middle East
• 1911-01-03 The Russian Turkestan city of Almaty is destroyed by a magnitude 7.7 earthquake
• 1911-05-12 American economic expert W. Morgan Schuster arrives by invitation to assume almost dictatorial power over Persia's finances; a move resented by Russia
• 1911-09-14 Russian Prime Minister Peter Stolypin is assassinated in Kiev; his regime had been characterized by harsh measures to control dissidents
• 1911-11-11 Russia issues an ultimatum to Persia and follows it with an invasion of North Persia to impose political control
• 1913-05-07 An ambassadorial conference in St Petersburg, Russia, awards the town of Silistria to Rumania in compensation for Bulgaria's other territorial gains in the First Balkan War

• 1913-08-27 Lt Pyotr Nesterov, of Imperial Russian Air Service, performs a loop in a monoplane at Kiev (1st aerobatic maneuver in an airplane)
• 1913-09-09 Russian pilot Pyotr Nesterov becomes the first pilot to fly a loop, doing so in his Nieuport IV monoplane; he is arrested for ten days for endangering government property
• 1913-11-26 Russian kingdom forbids Polish congregation of speakers

• 1914-02-21 In a secret meeting of civil and military leaders, Russian Foreign Minister Sazonov convinces them to support a plan for seizing the straits, controlled by Turkey, that block access to the Mediterranean
• 1914-07-05 Germany offers Austria war aid to fight against Russia in Serbia

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