General Sakharov is assassinated in Saratov province

Sergei Witte was appointed chairman of a reorganized Council of Ministers and charged with implementing the constitutional promises while restoring state authority. The source date is 19 October Old...

The funeral of the Bolshevik activist Nikolai Bauman drew a large political procession in Moscow. The source date is 20 October Old Style.

Organized violence against Jewish residents followed the October Manifesto. Police and right-wing monarchist groups were widely implicated in the pogrom. The source date is 20 October Old Style.

The Soviet called workers back to work after the October Manifesto, while continuing to organize around political and workplace demands. The source date is 21 October Old Style.

Servicemen at the Kronstadt naval base rebelled over conditions and political demands. The authorities suppressed the revolt and prepared courts-martial. The source date is 26 October Old Style.

The Soviet and allied parties urged citizens to withdraw deposits, demand gold payments and refuse certain taxes in an effort to weaken the imperial government financially. The source date is 2...

Police surrounded a Soviet meeting and arrested its deputies, including Leon Trotsky. The arrests deprived the capital’s movement of its main coordinating body. The source date is 3 December Old...

A political general strike developed into an armed uprising. Workers erected barricades and revolutionary fighting groups confronted troops and police. The source date is 7 December Old Style.

Workers in St Petersburg and other centres joined the general strike, but the capital’s movement lacked the coordination it had before the Soviet’s arrest. The source date is 8 December Old Style.

Government troops broke the main centres of armed resistance, including the Presnya district. The Moscow Soviet called off the strike, marking the defeat of the revolution’s final major urban...