Russian History Timeline (Part 3)

Events 401 - 600 of 1,103

• 1914-07-26 Britain attempts to organize a conference among major European powers to resolve dispute between Austria-Hungary and Serbia; France, Italy, and eventually Russia agree to participate. but Germany refuses
• 1914-07-29 In response to Austria's declaration of war on Serbia, Russian diplomats and general urge general mobilization, but the Tsar calls for partial mobilization

• 1914-08-01 Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany declares war on his nephew Tsar Nicholas II of Russia in WWI
• 1914-08-06 WWI: Austria-Hungary declares war on Russia
• 1914-08-26 -9/10] Russian army attacks Austrian army in Galicia

• 1914-08-28 World War I: Third day of Battle of Tannenberg, near Allenstein, East Prussia (present-day Poland); violent German vs. Russian battles
• 1914-08-29 4th day of Battle of Tannenberg (WWI): Russian Second Army panics, General Martos caught
• 1914-08-30 Battle of Tannenberg (WWI) in East Prussia ends in destruction of the Russian Second Army with 122,000-170,000 killed, injured or captured by the German 8th Army led by Paul von Hindenburg and Erich Ludendorff
• 1914-09-01 St Petersburg, Russia changes name to Petrograd
• 1914-09-03 Lemburg capital of Galicia, is taken after a three-day battle in which the Russians rout the Austrians
• 1914-09-04 France, Russia, and Britain agree in a Pact of London that none will make a separate peace
• 1914-09-05 Great Britain, France, Belgium and Russia sign Pact of London
• 1914-10-06 The Russians fall back along the Eastern Front in Poland and Galicia
• 1914-11-02 Russia declares war on the Ottoman Empire
• 1914-12-15 Battle of Lodz ends; Russians retreat toward Moscow
• 1914-12-17 Austrian troops beat Russians in Limanova Poland
• 1914-12-28 Turks are repulsed by the Russians after fighting in Armenia for weeks
• 1915-01-04 Trans-Caucausus Russian defeat Turkish troops

• 1915-01-17 Russia occupies Bukovina & Western Ukraine
• 1915-02-07 Second Battle of Masurian Lakes: German armies surrounded a Russian army
• 1915-02-21 Russian 20th Army corps surrenders to the German 10th Army after being surrounded
• 1915-04-20 The Armenians rise and seize the Turkish town of Van, which they hold until Russians relieve them on 19 May; thousands of Armenians are killed
• 1915-04-26 Italy secretly signs the "Treaty of London" with Britain, France and Russia, bringing Italy into World War I on the Allied side
• 1915-06-03 Austro-German forces recapture Przemysl, a crucial city in southeastern Poland, and the entire Russian front begins to collapse
• 1915-08-05 Warsaw, evacuated by the Russians, is occupied by Germans
• 1915-08-23 Tsar Nicolaas II takes control of Russian Army
• 1915-08-26 German troops overrun Brest-Litovsk, Russia
• 1915-09-05 Tsar Nicholas II, distressed by increasing Russian losses, assumes personal command of his nation's military forces; clearly a symbolic act and devastating for his leadership
• 1915-09-16 Tsar Nicholas II of Russia adjourns 4th Duma
• 1915-10-19 Russia and Italy declare war on Bulgaria
• 1915-12-12 Russian troops overrun Hamadan, Persia
• 1915-12-20 Russian troops overrun Qom, Persia
• 1916-01-10 Russian offensive in Caucasus
• 1916-02-16 Russian troops conquer the Ottoman Empire city of Erzurum during WWI
• 1916-02-26 Russian troops conquer Kermansjah, Persia
• 1916-06-04 General Aleksei Brusilov begins a massive Russian offensive on the Eastern Front (WWI)
• 1916-06-25 Russian Tsar Nicolaas II fires minister of Foreign affairs Sasonov
• 1916-07-02 Russian offensive in Armenia
• 1916-08-10 Turks annex Persian city Hamadan from Russia
• 1916-10-14 The Perm State University was founded in Russia.
• 1916-11-01 Paul Miliukov delivers in the Russian State Duma the famous "stupidity or treason" speech, precipitating the downfall of the Boris Stürmer government
• 1916-11-16 Russian La Satannaya ammunition factory explodes, killing 1,000
• 1917-01-13 Ammunitions ship explosion at Ekonomiia port near Archangel, Russia kills many and injures hundreds
• 1917-02-18 First major strike of the Russian "February Revolution" starts at the giant Putilov factory in Petrograd [NS=Mar 3]
• 1917-02-26 Russian February Revolution: Tsar Nicolas II orders army to quell civil unrest in Petrograd - army mutinies [NS Mar 11]
• 1917-03-03 First major strike of the Russian "February Revolution" starts at the giant Putilov factory in Petrograd [OS=Feb 18]
• 1917-03-08 Russian "February Revolution" begins in earnest with protests celebrating International Woman's Day and riots in St Petersburg over food rations and conduct of the war [OS=Feb 23]
• 1917-03-12 [OS Feb 27] Russian Duma sets up the Provisional Committee; Soviets form Executive Committee
• 1917-03-15 The last Russian Tsar Nicholas II, abdicates and nominates his brother Grand Duke Michael to succeed him [OS Mar 2]
• 1917-03-16 Russian Grand Duke Michael, brother of Tsar Nicholas II defers acceptance of the Russian throne [OS Mar 3]
• 1917-03-22 The USA is the first nation to recognize the new government of Russia

• 1917-04-16 Vladimir Lenin issues his radical "April Theses" calling for Soviets to take power during the Russian Revolution [OS Apr 4]
• 1917-04-16 [OS Apr 3] Lenin arrives back from exile in Russia at Finland Station, Petrograd to join the Russian Revolution
• 1917-06-10 60,000 people of Petrograd Russia welcome Prince Kropotkin (banned 41 years) returning after February Russian Revolution
• 1917-06-16 1st All Russian Congress of the Soviets convenes in Petrograd, Russia [OS Jun 3]
• 1917-06-24 Russian Black Sea fleet mutinies at Sebastopol

• 1917-07-21 Russian Revolution: Socialist Alexander Kerensky becomes Russian Prime Minister
• 1917-09-15 Russia proclaimed a republic by Alexander Kerensky's Provisional government
• 1917-10-25 Pan-Russian Congress opens in Petrograd
• 1917-11-06 [OS Oct 24] Bolshevik revolution begins with bombardment of the Winter Palace in Petrograd during the Russian October Revolution
• 1917-11-07 The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic is proclaimed; first Council of People's Commissars is formed with Vladimir Lenin as leader and including Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin
• 1917-11-07 [OS Oct 25] October Revolution in Russia; Lenin and the Bolsheviks seize power, capture the Winter Palace and overthrow the Provisional Government.
• 1917-11-26 The new government of Russia offers an armistice to Germany and Austria-Hungary
• 1917-12-06 Taking advantage of the temporary relaxation of authority in Russia, Finland declares itself a republic, following the Ukraine on 20 November
• 1917-12-11 German-occupied Lithuania proclaims independence from Russia
• 1917-12-15 Moldavian Republic declares independence from Russia
• 1917-12-15 World War I: An armistice is reached between the new Russian Bolshevik government and the Central Powers
• 1918-01-25 Russia declared a republic of Soviets

• 1918-02-16 Lithuania declares independence from Russia & Germany (National Day)
• 1918-02-18 Germany renews its offensive against the Russians, making dramatic gains against disorganized and dispirited Russian troops
• 1918-02-22 Germany claims Baltic states, Finland & Ukraine from Russia
• 1918-02-24 Estonia declares independence from Russia
• 1918-03-09 Russian Bolshevik Party becomes the Communist Party
• 1918-03-12 Fearing foreign invasion Vladimir Lenin shifts revolutionary Russia's capital from Petrograd (St. Petersburg) to Moscow
• 1918-05-24 British officer General Poole lands at Murmansk, the Russian port on the Barents Sea
• 1918-05-26 Georgian Social Democratic Republic declares independence from Russia
• 1918-05-28 The Armenian National Council declares Armenia independent from the Russian Empire
• 1918-06-29 A provisional government opposed to the Bolsheviks establishes itself at Vladivostok, the Russian port on the Sea of Japan
• 1918-07-10 Russian Soviet Federal Socialist Republic forms

• 1918-08-03 The first allied troops land at Archangel, the Russian port on the White Seas
• 1918-08-30 Fanya Kaplan attempts but fails to assassinate Lenin, new leader of Soviet Russia
• 1918-09-04 US troops land in Archangel, Russia, stay 10 months
• 1918-09-05 Decree "On Red Terror" is published in Russia
• 1918-10-18 Russian 10th Army drives out White armies of Tsaritsyn (Stalingrad)
• 1918-11-03 Poland proclaims independence from Russia after WW I
• 1918-11-13 Russia cancels Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
• 1918-11-18 Latvia declares independence from Russia
• 1919-01-01 Belorussian SSR established
• 1919-02-03 The Bolshevik army is defeated in a series of clashes with the White Russians, who are fighting to reclaim the government after the 1917 revolution
• 1919-03-23 8th Congress of the Russian Communist Party re-establishes a five-member Politburo which becomes the center of political power in the Soviet Union. Original members Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky, Joseph Stalin, Lev Kamenev and Nikolai Krestinsky.
• 1919-05-26 The Supreme Council of Allies, meeting at Versailles, decides to recognize two White Russian leaders, Admiral Kolchak and General Denikin, and support them against the Bolsheviks
• 1919-06-09 Red Army captures Ufa in Russia
• 1919-09-27 British troops withdraw from the North Russian town of Archangelsk after fighting Bolsheviks/Soviets
• 1919-11-07 US police raid offices of Union of Russian Workers

• 1920-01-01 The Belorussian Communist Organisation is founded as a separate party.
• 1920-01-02 Responding to global fear of communism caused by the Russian Revolution, US Attorney General Palmer authorizes raids across the country on unionists and socialists
• 1920-01-20 Russian Imperial Navy Admiral Alexander Kolchak, leader of anti-communist "White Movement" surrenders to Bolshevik troops
• 1920-02-02 Estonia declares its Independence from Russia (Dorpat Peace)
• 1920-02-07 Russian Imperial Navy Admiral Kolchak, leader of anti-communist "White Movement" executed by Bolshevik firing squad in Irkutsk, Russian SFSR
• 1920-03-28 Anton Denkin's White Russian troops defeated by Bolsheviks and Soviets at Novorossijsk on the Black Sea (The British aid Denkin in his escape)
• 1920-05-27 Tatar ASSR forms in Russian SFSR
• 1920-06-06 Baron Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel opens White Russian offensive against red Army
• 1920-08-12 Battle of Warsaw between Poland and Russia begins
• 1920-08-25 Russia suffers a final decisive defeat in the Battle of Warsaw against Poland
• 1920-10-02 The Chinese sign an agreement with the Russo-Asiatic Bank, largely French and Russian controlled, which will oversee the Chinese Eastern Railway, but give local supervision to China
• 1920-11-14 The Russian Bolshevik army occupies Sebastopol, ending anti-communist attempts to regain the government of Russia
• 1921-02-25 Tbilisi, capital of the Democratic Republic of Georgia, occupied by Bolshevist Russia
• 1921-03-01 Sailors revolt in Kronstadt, Russia
• 1921-03-07 Red Army under Trotsky attacks sailors of Kronstadt naval base near St Petersburg, Russia
• 1921-04-11 Turkestan ASSR forms in Russian SFSR
• 1921-08-14 Tannu Tuva, later Tuvinian People's Republic is established as a completely independent country (which is supported by Russia).
• 1921-09-21 Pope Benedictus XV donates 1 million lire to feed Russians
• 1921-10-04 League of Nations refuses to assist starving Russians
• 1921-10-18 Biding its time, Soviet Russia agrees to independence for the Crimea
• 1921-11-05 Soviet Russia signs a treaty with Mongolia, temporarily supporting the new government against China and Japanese incursions

• 1922-04-27 Yakut ASSR formed in Russian SFSR
• 1922-05-24 Russian-Italian trade agreement signed

• 1922-12-20 Draft declaration on creating the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) crafted by representatives from the Russian SFSR, the Ukrainian SSR, Byelorussian SSR, and the Transcaucasian SFSR

• 1923-07-06 The Central Executive Committee accepts the Treaty of Union, signed in Moscow in December 1922, and the Russian Empire becomes the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
• 1923-07-10 2-pound hailstones kill 23 and many cattle in Rostov, Russia
• 1924-01-24 Russian city of St Petersburg renamed Leningrad (changed back in 1991)
• 1924-08-08 British-Russian trade agreement signed
• 1924-09-08 Alexandra Kollontai of Russia becomes 1st woman ambassador
• 1924-10-28 French-Russian trade agreement signed
• 1925-01-20 The Soviet and Japan sign a convention resuming relations: Russia agrees to limit revolutionary activity of the Third Communist International, while Japan agrees to leave the Sakhalin
• 1925-10-12 German-Russian trade agreement signed
• 1926-04-26 Germany & Russia sign neutrality peace treaty
• 1926-09-28 Russia & Latvia treaty of neutrality signed
• 1926-10-19 Russian Politburo throws out Leon Trotsky and his followers
• 1927-08-19 Metropolitan Sergius proclaims the declaration of loyalty of the Russian Orthodox Church to the Soviet state
• 1928-10-22 China expels all Russian instructors & civil servants
• 1929-01-31 Leon Trotsky expelled from Russia to Turkey
• 1929-08-11 Russian-Chinese border fights
• 1930-01-30 Russia launches their 1st radiosonde - a battery-powered telemetry instrument carried into the atmosphere to measure various parameters and transmit them by radio to a ground receiver- from Pavlovsk, USSR.
• 1935-07-13 US-Russian commerce treaty takes effect
• 1935-08-31 Russian miner Aleksey Stachanov digs 102 tons of coal in under 6 hours, using a jackhammer
• 1937-07-30 Soviet Politburo issues NKVD Order No. 00447 during the Great Purge to repress property-owning kulaks and anti-Soviets; 269,100 are arrested, with 76,000 executed
• 1939-08-20 Russian offensive under General Zjoekov against Japanese invasion in Mongolia
• 1939-09-30 Germany & Russia agree to partition Poland

• 1939-11-26 4 soviet soldiers killed on Finnish-Russian border
• 1939-11-28 Soviet government revokes Russian-Finnish non-aggression treaty
• 1939-12-09 Russian air raid on Helsinki
• 1939-12-19 Russian air & ground attack against Finnish positions near Summa
• 1940-01-05 Finnish offensive at Suomossalmi against Russia
• 1940-02-23 Russian troops conquer Lasi Island
• 1940-03-12 Finland signs the Moscow Peace Treaty in Moscow, surrendering to Russia and ceding 11% of their pre-WWII territory, ending the "Winter War"
• 1940-03-13 Finland-Russian cease fire signed, the Winter War ends. Finland gives up Karelische
• 1940-06-27 USSR returns to the Gregorian calendar, using Sunday as a rest day, after 6 years using a Russian six-day calendar

• 1941-01-01 Russian general Georgy Zhukov appointed chief of general staff
• 1941-06-19 Soviet anthropologist Michael Gerasimov opens tomb of Timurid Empire founder Timur and allegedly finds the inscription that whoever opens the tomb shall "unleash an invader more terrible than I." Three days later Germany invades Russia.
• 1941-06-24 Germans advance into Russia and take Vilna, Brest-Litovsk and Kaunas
• 1941-07-18 SS drowns 40 Jews in Dvina River, Belorussia
• 1941-08-13 Red army evacuates Smolensk, Russia, as the German army advances
• 1941-08-29 German Einsatzkommando in Russia kills 1,469 Jewish children
• 1941-09-03 1st use of Zyclon-B gas in Auschwitz (on Russian prisoners of war) [1]

• 1941-11-21 German troops occupy Rostov-on-Don, Southern Russia
• 1941-12-08 Russian 16th army recaptures Krijukovo
• 1942-03-20 Convoy PQ13 departs Reykjavik Iceland to Russia
• 1942-05-12 Russia occupies Crackow, until Aug 23, 1943
• 1942-05-21 Convoy PQ16 departs Great Britain for Russia
• 1942-06-07 Germany Army marches into Sebastopol, Russia
• 1942-07-01 WWI: German troops conquer Black Sea port city of Sevastopol, Crimea, after a 250 battle; Russia takes it back in 1944
• 1942-07-24 German troops occupy Rostov-on- Don in Southern Russia for the 2nd time
• 1942-07-28 Nazis liquidate 10,000 Jews in Minsk Belorussia Ghetto
• 1942-07-30 German SS kills 25,000 Jews in Minsk, Belorussia
• 1942-07-31 German SS gases 1,000 Jews in Minsk, Belorussia
• 1942-08-05 German troops cross Russian Kuban River in Western Caucasus
• 1942-08-23 World War II: last cavalry charge in history takes place at Isbushenskij, Russia; the Italian Savoia Cavalleria charges Soviet infantry
• 1942-10-05 5,000 Jews of Dubno, Russia massacred
• 1942-11-19 Russia launches winter offensive against Germans along Don front
• 1942-12-16 Hitler orders combat against partisans in Russia and the Balkans
• 1943-02-14 The Soviet Union recaptures the city of Rostov-on-Don, liberating Russia from the German 17th Army during WWII
• 1943-07-07 3rd day of Battle of Kursk, USSR: Operation Citadel: Germans occupy Dubrova, Luftwaffe fighter ace shoots down 7 Russian aircraft
• 1943-07-12 World War II: Battle of Prokhorovka - Russia defeats German forces in one of the largest ever tank battles
• 1943-08-13 Red army recaptures Spas-Demensk from the German army in Kaluga Oblast, Russia
• 1943-08-23 50th day of Battle of Kursk, USSR: Largest tank battle in history ends with Russia's defeat of Germany; over 10,000 tanks take part, nearly 250,000 combatants killed
• 1943-09-11 Jewish ghettos of Minsk & Lida Belorussia liquidated
• 1944-01-27 Siege of Leningrad lifted by the Soviets after 880 days and more than 2 million Russians killed
• 1944-05-09 Russians recapture Crimea by taking Sevastopol
• 1944-05-15 Sergei Aleksi becomes guardian of the Patriarch Throne of the Russian Orthodox Church
• 1944-09-08 Russians march into Bulgaria; Bulgaria declares war on Germany
• 1944-10-09 British Prime Minister Winston Churchill arrives in Russia for talks with Joseph Stalin

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