The Russian Empire Timeline (1721-1917)

1682 Brothers Ivan V and Peter I crowned czars
1695-1700 War with Ottoman Empire
1696 Ivan V dies, leaving Peter I as the sole czar
1696-97 Peter’s grand tour of Europe
1700-21 The Great Northern War
1703 St. Petersburg founded
1710-13 War with Ottoman Empire
1713 St. Petersburg declared capital of Russia
1721 Russia declared an Empire
1722-23 War with Persia
1725 Catherine I crowned Empress of Russian Empire
1727 Peter II crowned Emperor of Russian Empire
1730 Anna crowned Empress of Russian Empire
1733-35 War of Polish Succession
1734-39 War with Ottoman Empire
1740 Ivan VI crowned Emperor of Russian Empire
1741 Elizabeth crowned Empress of Russian Empire
1756-63 Seven Years’ War
1762 Peter III crowned Emperor and assassinated
1762 Catherine the Great crowned Empress of Russian Empire
1768-74 War with Ottoman Empire
1772 First Partition of Poland
1773 Pugachov uprising
1787-91 War with Ottoman Empire
1790 Radishchev’s Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow published
1793 Second Partition of Poland
1795 Third Partition of Poland
1796 Paul crowned Emperor of Russian Empire
1801 Alexander crowned Emperor of Russian Empire and conquest of Caucasus region begins
1812 War of 1812
1815 Congress of Vienna
1825 Decembrist Revolt and Nicholas I crowned Emperor of Russian Empire
1828 War with Ottoman Empire
1829 War with Ottoman Empire
1833 Autocracy, Orthodoxy, and Nationality declared official ideology
1848 Revolutions sweep across Europe
1853-56 Crimean War
1855 Alexander II crowned Emperor of Russian Empire
1861 Emancipation of serfs
1864 Caucasus region conquered
1867 Alaska sold to the United States
1875-77 First Balkan War
1881 Alexander II assassinated and Alexander III crowned Emperor of Russian Empire
1891-1904 Trans Siberian railroad built
1892-1903 Witte’s state-led industrialization program
1894 Nicholas II crowned Emperor of Russian Empire
1898 Russian Social Democratic Labor Party established
1903 Russian Social Democratic Labor Party split into Bolshevik and Menshevik factions
1904-05 Russo-Japanese War
1905 1905 Revolution began with “Bloody Sunday” and Nicholas II accepted October Manifesto
1906 First Duma elected
1911-13 Balkan Wars
1914 World War I begins
1917 February Revolution with Nicholas II abdicated; October Revolution with Bolsheviks seized power
Also available are “The Russian Empire (1721-1917),” “The Russian Empire: Major Accomplishments,” and “The Russian Empire: The Amber Room.”