RR key dates

Question 1

9th of January, 1905

Answer 1

Bloody Sunday

Question 2

1861

Answer 2

Alexander II emancipated the serfs

Question 3

1881

Answer 3

Alexander II assassinated by ‘People’s Will’

Question 4

1891

Answer 4

construction of Trans Siberian Railway begins

Question 5

1893-1903

Answer 5

‘great spurt’ - Sergei Witte

Question 6

1894-1917

Answer 6

Reign of Nicholas II

Question 7

1898

Answer 7

SD’s formed

Question 8

1903

Answer 8

SD’s become Mensheviks and Bolsheviks

Question 9

8th of Feb 1904 - August 1905

Answer 9

Russo-Japanese war

Question 10

14th of May, 1905

Answer 10

Battle of Tsushima

Question 11

14th of June, 1905

Answer 11

Potemkin Mutiny

Question 12

17th of October, 1905

Answer 12

October Manifesto issued

Question 13

23rd of April, 1906

Answer 13

Fundamental Laws issued

Question 14

27th of April, 1906

Answer 14

First Duma opens

Question 15

June, 1906

Answer 15

Stolypin appointed Prime-Minister

Question 16

1911

Answer 16

Stolypin assassinated

Question 17

April 5th, 1912

Answer 17

Lena Goldfields Massacre

Question 18

1st August, 1914

Answer 18

Russia enters WW1

Question 19

August, 1915

Answer 19

Tsar Nicholas takes command of army

Question 20

December 16th, 1916

Answer 20

Rasputin murdered

Question 21

18th of January, 1917

Answer 21

Putilov steel works strikes (beginning of Feb revolution)

Question 22

23rd of Feb, 1917

Answer 22

International Women’s Day marches

Question 23

26th of Feb, 1917

Answer 23

Duma forms Provisional committee

Question 24

27th of Feb, 1917

Answer 24

Petrograd Garrison mutinies - tsar has no military control, Petrograd Soviet reforms

Question 25

1st March, 1917

Answer 25

Soviet Order No. 1 issued

Question 26

2nd of March, 1917

Answer 26

Tsar abdicates

Question 27

4th of April, 1917

Answer 27

Lenin arrives in Petrograd - delivers April Thesis

Question 28

June, 1917

Answer 28

Kerensky's June Offensive

Question 29

3rd - 6th of July, 1917

Answer 29

July Days

Question 30

3rd of July, 1917

Answer 30

Prince Lvov resigns as Prime Minister

Question 31

21st of July, 1917

Answer 31

Kerensky becomes Prime Minister

Question 32

24th to the 29th of August, 1917

Answer 32

Kornilov affair

Question 33

23rd of October, 1917

Answer 33

Kerensky takes offensive against Bolsheviks

Question 34

25th of October, 1917

Answer 34

Storming of Winter Palace, Second Congress meet