RUSSIAN EMPIRE (1825-1917) |
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| 1825-1855 |
Nicholai I Romanov |
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| 1825 |
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| 1830 |
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| 1830-1831 |
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| 1832 |
- Uvarov's three principles enunciated: autocracy, orthodoxy, nationality
- Alexandrine Theater in St. Petersburg opened
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| 1833 |
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| 1834 |
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| 1836 Nov 27 |
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| 1837 |
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| 1838 |
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| 1838-1847 |
- Belinsky works on the Notes of the Fatherland
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| 1840 |
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| 1841 |
- Ban against the sale of peasants individually
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| 1842 |
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1846
May 30 |
- Abolition of Corn Laws in England; increase of Russian grain exports
- Peter Carl Faberge born in St. Petersburg
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| 1847 |
- Herzen leaves Russia forever
- Belinsky's Letter to Gogol
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| 1849 |
- Dostoevsky sentenced to forced labor in Siberia
- Russian intervention in Hungary
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| 1851 Nov 13 |
- St. Petersburg-Moscow railway opened
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| 1852 |
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| 1853 |
- Ostrovsky's first play produced
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| 1853-1856 |
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| 1855 |
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| 1855-1881 |
Alexander II Romanov |
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| 1856 |
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| 1857 |
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| 1858-1860 |
- Acquisition from China of Amur and Maritime provinces
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| 1859 |
- Surrender of Shamil; conquest of Caucasus completed
- Goncharov's Oblomov
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| 1860 |
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| 1860-1873 |
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| 1861 Feb 19 |
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| 1862 |
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| 1863 |
- Polish rebellion
- Artists Co-operative Society (Peredvizhniki) founded
- Chernyshevsky's What Is To Be Done?
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| 1863-1865 |
- Law (courts) and education reform Zemstvo instituted
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| 1864-1885 |
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| 1866 |
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| 1867 March 30 |
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| 1869 |
- Tolstoy's War and Peace is published
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1870
April 22 |
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| 1872 |
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| 1873 |
- Beginning of the movement To the People (V narod)
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| 1874 |
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| 1876 |
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| 1877 |
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1877-1878
March 3
June 13 |
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| 1878 |
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| 1879 |
- People's Will Party and Black Partition established
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| 1880 |
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| 1881 March 1 |
- Assassination of Alexander II
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| 1881-1894 |
Alexander III Romanov |
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| 1884 |
- Reactionary regulations for universities
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| 1888 |
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| 1890 |
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| 1891 |
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| 1891-1893 |
- Making of the Franco-Russian alliance
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| 1892 |
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| 1892-1903 |
- Witte as minister of communications, finance and commerce
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| 1894-1917 |
Nicholai II Romanov |
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| 1896 |
- Disastrous production of Chekhov's The Seagull in St. Petersburg
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| 1897 Jan 28 |
- First all-Russian census counts 128,907,692 people
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| 1898 |
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| 1900 |
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| 1901 Jan 31 |
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| 1902 |
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| 1903 |
- 2nd Party Congress (Brussels)
- Split into Mensheviks and Bolsheviks
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| 1904 |
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| 1904-1905 |
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1905
January 22
October 17 |
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1906
April |
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| 1906-1911 |
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| 1907 |
- Second Duma
- 5th Party Congress
- Emergence of Triple Entente (France, Britain, Russia) against Triple Alliance (Germany, Austro-Hungary, Italy)
- Third Duma
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| 1908 |
- Trotsky becomes editor of Pravda in Vienna
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| 1909 May 19 |
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1910
November 7 |
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1912
April 4 |
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| 1913 |
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| 1914 |
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| 1916 Dec 16
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