Fun Fact:
- Russia followed the Julian calendar until 1 February 1918 .
- The country then changed to the Gregorian calendar , which is followed everywhere today. The Gregorian dates are 13 days ahead of the Julian dates .
- So by our calendar, the ‘February’ Revolution took place on 12th March and the ‘October’ Revolution took place on 7th November.
1792
- ‘ Marseillaise ’, a war song was written.
1815
- Giuseppe Mazzini , an Italian nationalist , conspired with others to convert Italy into a nation where all citizens will be equal .
1850s -1880s
- Debates over socialism in Russia .
1871
- Paris Commune
1896-1897
- Strikes in textile industries
1898
- Formation of the Russian Social Democratic Workers Party .
1900
- Formation of Socialist Revolutionary Party
1902
- Strikes in the metal industry.
1905
- The Bloody Sunday and the Revolution of 1905 .
- Socialists and trade unionists formed a Labour Party in Britain and a Socialist Party in France .
1914
- war broke out between two European alliances – Germany , Austria and Turkey ( the Central powers ) and France , Britain and Russia (later Italy and Romania ).
1917
22 February 1917
- a lockout took place at a factory on the right bank.
25 February 1917
- the government suspended the Duma
26 February 1917
- Demonstrators returned in force to the streets of the left bank of river Neva.
27 February 1917
- the Police Headquarters were ransacked .
2nd March 1917
- Abdication of the Tsar .
April 1917
- the Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin returned to Russia from his exile
July 1917
- demonstrations staged by the Bolsheviks were sternly repressed
16th October 1917
- Lenin persuaded the Petrograd Soviet and the Bolshevik Party to agree to a socialist seizure of power
24th October 1917
- Bolshevik uprising in Petrograd .
November 1917
- Most industries and banks were nationalised.
1918-20
- The Civil War
January
- the Assembly rejected Bolshevik measures and Lenin dismissed the Assembly .
1918
- clothing competition was organised to change the uniform of the army when the Soviet hat (budeonovka) was chosen.
March
- despite opposition from their political allies , the Bolsheviks made peace with Germany at Brest Litovsk .
1919
- Formation of Comintern .
1928
- Bolshevik party members toured the grain-producing areas , supervising enforced grain collections , and raiding ‘ kulaks ’ – the name for well-to-do peasants
1929
- Beginning of Collectivisation .
