January 18, 1801 - Annexation of Kartly-Kakhetin Kingdom to Russia. March 11, 1801 - The Palace Revolution. Assassination of the Emperor Pavel I. 1801-1825 - The reign of the Emperor Alexander I. June 13(25)-28(July 9), 1807 - Meeting between Alexander I and Napoleon in Tilsit. Signing the peace treaty with France in Tilsit: recognizing all Napoleon's winnings by Russia, liability to join to the Continental blockade of the Great Britain. 1808 - Assigning M.M.Speransky the Head of Commission on drawing up the laws. 1808 - Founding Siberia Cossacks Host. 1808-1809 - The Russia-Sweden war. Annexation (according to Friedrichgum peace treaty, signed in September 1809) of Finland to Russia. March 1809 - Calling Borgoss diet of the representatives of Finnish estates by Alexander I. Introduction of the Grand Principality of Finland remaining the part of the Russian Empire.1 809 - The project of reforms by M.M.Speransky, which provided for gradual transiting to constitutional monarchy. 1809 - Prohibition for land-owners to exile their serfs to Siberia (acted till 1822) January 1, 1810 - Establishing the Government Council (with consultative functions). 1810 - The beginning of founding military settlements. 1810 - Annexation of Abkhazia. October 19, 1811 - Opening the Tsarskoselsky lyceum. March 1812 - Retirement and exile (till 1816) of Speransky. May 16(28) 1812 - Bucharest peace treaty between Russia and Turkey. Annexation of Bessarabia to Russia. June 12, 1812 - Invasion of Napoleon's 'Great Army ' into Russian. The beginning of the Patriotic War of Russian people. August 4-5, 1812 - The battle of Smolensk. Merging the Armies of M.B.Barklai-de-Tolli and P.I.Bagrateon. August 8, 1812 - Assigning M.I.Kutuzov the Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Army. August 26, 1812 - The battle of Borodino. September 1, 1812 - Council of War in Fili (near Moscow). Making the decision to surrender Moscow. September 2, 1812 - The Napoleon's Army 's coming into Moscow. The beginning of the Moscow fire. September-October, 1812 - Cutusov's maneuver near Tarutin. October 2, 1812 - Napoleon's retreat from Moscow. October 6, 1812 - Russian win in the battle with the corps of I. Murat near Tartutin. October 12, 1812 - The battle near Maloyaroslavets. November 14-16, 1812 - Destroying the remains of the Napoleon's 'Great Army' when crossing the river Berezina. June 1815 - Signing the final documents of the Vena Congress. The Duchy of Warsaw was divided between Russia, Austria and Prussia. September 14(26), 1815 - Act about creating the Holy Alliance, signed by Alexander I, the Austrian Emperor Franz I and the Prussian king Friedrich Wilhelm III (later almost all the European monarchies joined the Alliance). November 8(20), 1815 - The second Paris peace treaty, providing for the 5-year occupation of France by the forces of the countries-members of the Alliance (stopped ahead of schedule in 1818). November 27, 1815 - Giving the Constitution to the Poland kingdom by Alexander I. February 1816 - Foundation of the 'Alliance of Resque' - the first secret 'Decembrists' organization. 1819-1821 - The expedition of F.F.Bellinsgausen and M.P.Lasarev. Discovering Antarctic. 1820 - Disturbances in Semenovsky regiment.1821 - Appearance of the secret Northern and Southern societies. 1823 - Appearance of the secret Society of United Slavs. 1824 - Canceling the limitations of Peasant trade. 1825-1855 - The reign of Nikolai I. December 14, 1825 - The rise in St.Petersburg, prepared by the members of the Northern society. October 1853 - March 1856 - The Crimean (Eastern) war. November 18, 1853 - The Russian Navy under the command of P.S. Nakhimov defeated the Turkish Navy in Sinop bay. December 1853 - The Great Britain and France joining de facto the Crimean war. On December 23 the British-French Navy entered the Black Sea. 1860 - Establishing the State Bank. 1860 - Foundation of Vladivostok. November 2(14), 1860 - Peking treaty between Russia and China. Russia being assigned Ussury district. Opening Peking, Urga, Canton, Kashagar for Russian merchants. February 19, 1861 - Manifesto about Liberation of peasants from serfdom. 1872 - The strike at Krengolmsk manufacture. June 1872 - Establishing the 'Special Office of Governing Senate' for judging crimes against the state. May 25, 1873 - Shonbrunn treaty between the Emperors of Russia and Austro-Hungary about concerted actions in case of an attack on one of the countries. August 1875 - The agreement with Hiva. Establishing protectorate over Hiva Khanate by Russia. October 11, 1873 - The German Emperor joining the Shonbrunn treaty from May 25, 1873. The determinate formation of the 'Alliance of the three Emperors'. 1873-1875 - 'Going to people'. April 25, 1875 - St. Petersburg agreement with Japan about transiting Sakhalin island in exchange for 18 Curily islands, assigned to Japan. February 1876 - Annexation of Kokand Khanate to the Russian Empire. December 6, 1876 - Student Demonstration near Kazan Cathedral in St. Petersburg ('Kazan Demonstration') 1876 - Uniting the secret circles of narodnik movement, which in 1878 took the name of 'Land and Liberty'. January 3(15), 1877 - Budapest convention (secret) of Russia and Austro-Hungary on the Austrian neutrality in case of Russia-Turkey war. 1877-1878 - The Russia-Turkey war. July 19, 1877 - Taking Shipkinsky Pass by Russians. 1877 - 'Chigirinsky plot' - unsuccessful attempt of narodniks to raise the peasants rise in Chigirinsky district in Kiev gubernia. November 6, 1877 - Taking the Turkish fortress Kars by the Russian forces. July-November, 1877 - The siege and taking the fortress Plevna. December 27-28, 1877 - The win of the Russian forces under the command of M.D. Skobelev and N.I. Svyatopolk-Mirsky in the battle of Shipka-Sheinovo. 1877-78 - 'The Case of 193'(of the participants of 'Going to people'). January 8, 1878 - Taking Adrianople by the Russian forces. February 19(March 3), 1878 - Signing the peace treaty with Turkey in San-Stephano. March-April, 1878 - The case of V. Zasulich, who made an attempt upon the life of Petersburg governor F.F.Trepov. Bringing in the verdict of 'not guilty'. June 1(13)-July 1(13), 1878 - Berlin Congress, called to revise the conditions of San-Stephano peace treaty from 1878. August 4, 1878 - Assassinating the chief of gendarmes General N.V.Mezentsev by S.M.Kravchinsky. Transmitting the cases about crimes against the state to the military courts. 1878-80 - Activity of the Northern Alliance of Russian workers. April 2, 1879 - The attempt upon the life of the Emperor Alexander II by A.K.Soloviev in St.Petersburg. 1882 - Abolishing the tax poll in the European Russia (since 1899 - in Siberia). August 27, 1882 - Approving the new 'Temporary rules of publishing'. June 6-17, 1899 - The Hague peace Conference. On the initiative of Russia Conventions on the peaceful solving international conflicts, laws and rules of conducting a land war were approved. 1899-1903 - Industrial crisis. |