Timeline 1900-1913

 

1900
		The Boxer Rebellion is suppressed in China.
		Russia occupies Manchuria .
		Russia annexes the eastern Pamirs.
1901
		Government institutes programs to fight disease and starvation.
		Tolstoy is excommunicated from the Orthodox Church.
		Minister of Education, Bogolepov is killed by a student.
	31 January	Anton Chekhov's 'Three Sisters' opens at Moscow Art Theater to poor reviews
	1 May	Joseph V. Stalin leads a May Day demonstration in the Soldatsky Market Place, in the center of Tiflis.
1902
		Maxim Gorky writes the play 'The Lower Depths' it opens at Moscow Art Theater.
	8 January	Georgi Malenkov, was born.  He would later become the Soviet Prime Minister from 1953 to 1955.  He would be dismissed from the Communist party in 1957 for trying to oust Khrushchev.
	Fall	Massive unrest follows a poor harvest,  300 infantry battalions and cavalry squadrons are used to suppress uprisings that result.
1903
	27 July	Russian actor Nikolai Cherkasov is born in St. Petersburg.  One of his major roles would be in "Ivan the Terrible".
	17 November	2nd Bolshevik Party Congress is held in Brussels.
		Lenin's efforts to impose his radical views on the Social Democratic Labor Party splits it into Mensheviks and Bolsheviks.
1904
		General strike in Tbilisi and Baku.
	6 February	Japan breaks off negotiations with Russia on the Korean issue and recalls their minister.
		Ivan Pavlov wins Nobel Prize for his work with dogs.
	15 July	Anton Chekhov dies.
		Poet Alexander Blok publishes his first book, 'Songs about the Fair Lady'
1905
	8 January	1905 Revolution: Calling of a General Strike results in 200,000 workers stopping work.
	9 January	Bloody Sunday: A crowd of 100,000 led by Father Georgi Gapon marches on the Winter Palace.  Cossacks fire on the advancing crowd killing 92.
	22 January	3rd Bolshevik Party Congress Constitutional Democrats (Kadets) Program
	15 June	In Odessa, police, Cossacks, and the anti-Semitic group 'The Black Hundreds' fight strikers and kill Jews.  Martial Law is soon declared.
	27 June	Russian sailors on the battleship Potemkin seized the ship in the Black Sea, and throw the commander and several other officers overboard.
	October	General Strike spreads throughout the Russian Empire.
	26 October	Revolutionary workers in St. Petersburg revolt and form the first assembly (Soviet) in their brief uprising.
	30 October	Tsar Nicholas II delivers the October Manifesto.  It promised an elected parliament (the Duma), a constitution, and extended voting rights.
	December	Districts in Moscow are destroyed by vicious street fighting.
	3 December	Members of the St. Petersburg Soviet are arrested en mass, including Leon Trotsky.
1906
		The Orenburg-Tashkent Railroad is completed, linking Turkestan to European Russia.
	Spring	Peter Stolypin becomes Prime Minister and institutes Land Reform until his death in 1911.
	Spring	In the Baltic states, some 2000 rebels are shot or hung.  Lenin and other Marxist revolutionaries begin to despair.
		4th Bolshevik Party Congress First Duma - later dissolved by Nicholas II
	27 April	First Constitution (Fundamental Law)
	19 December	Leonid Brezhnev was born. He would become the leader of the Soviet Union during the Cold War.  He would dramatically expand the military until his death in the 1980's.
1907
		Second Duma - later dissolved by Nicholas II
		5th Bolshevik Party Congress
		Emergence of Triple Entente (France, Britain, Russia) against Triple Alliance (Germany, Austro-Hungary, Italy)
		Third Duma (1907-1912)
	(18 August) 31 August	The Anglo-Russian Convention was signed in St. Petersburg.  It resolved standing differences between the England and Russia over the lands of Persia, Tibet, and Afghanistan.
1908
	30 June	Tunguska Event - Large explosion of unknown origin devastates large area (around half a million acres) of Siberian wilderness.  Soviet scientists would only get around to study the site in 1927.
1909
	19 May	First performance of Diaghilev's 'Ballet russe'
	6 July	Andrei Gromyko was born.  He would later become the Soviet Foreign Minister during the Cold War era.
1910
	19 May	Igor Stravinsky's 'Firebird' scandalizes Paris.
	7 November	Leo Tolstoy dies at Astapovo station.
1911
		Balkan Wars begin, and last until 1913.
	14 September	Prime Minister Stolypin is shot in a Kiev opera house by Dmitry Bogrov who was a revolutionary and police spy.
	18 September	Prime Minister Stolypin dies.  Many people believed that any hope of saving Tsarist Russia died with him.
	24 September	The future Soviet leader Konstantin Chernenko was born.  He would lead the Soviet Union from 1984-1985.
1912
		Fourth Duma is held.
	4 April	Lena gold field massacre occurs.  This incident was where Vladimir Ilyich took his pseudonym - Lenin.
	24 November	With Italian and German backing, Austria denounces Serbian gains in the Balkans.   Russia and France support Serbia.
1913
		Stravinsky releases his 'The Rite of Spring'