October 22nd: The five Bolshevik deputies in the Duma are arrested. September 1st: The Battle of the Masurian Lakes ends with another decisive German victory and 125,000 Russian casualties. July 30th: Prince Georgy Lvov creates the All-Russian Zemstvo Union for the Relief of Sick and Wounded Soldiers.Īugust 17th: The Battle of Tannenberg ends: the Russian Second Army is decimated by a much smaller German force.Īugust 18th: St Petersburg is renamed Petrograd, a rejection of the Germanic connotations in its original name. July 19th: Germany declares war on Russia, boosting patriotic fervour and dampening support for socialist groups. July 8th: Government suppression of striking oil workers in Baku triggers a short but intensive wave of strikes in St Petersburg, lasting almost a week. June 15th: The Austrian archduke, Franz Ferdinand, is assassinated by a Serbian nationalist in Sarajevo. June-July: A wave of general strikes in St Petersburg reaches a crescendo. To convert Old Style dates to New Style dates, add 13 days (for example, October 26th 1917 O.S. Dates in this Russian Revolution timeline are Julian or Old Style before January 24th 1918 and Gregorian or New Style thereafter. Note: Russia used the Julian or Old Style calendar until January 24th 1918, when this system was replaced by the Gregorian or New Style calendar. This timeline has been written and compiled by Alpha History authors. This Russian Revolution timeline lists significant events and developments in tsarist Russia between 19.
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