George Gapon7 January 1902
Organizes a major industrial strike
Russia · Revolution / Revolution of Russia. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.
Organizes a major industrial strike
Calls a strike after 4 Assembly of Russian Workers members of the Putilov works sacked. 110,000 workers go on strike
110,000 workers go on strike
Appeals to workers to stay away from the demonstrations threatening to use force
Gapon asks the Tsar to reduce the working day to 8 hrs and improve conditions and wages. 82,000 workers go out on strike
More than 80,000 workers go on strike in Saint Petersburg
120,000 workers go out on strike
Troops open fire and 200 are killed and 800 injured
The Government appeals in vain for the workers to return to work
Strikers in Warsaw loot and burn shops, 93 are killed by Russian troops
During a strike in Riga troops charge demonstrators and 70 are killed
93 are killed during strikes in Warsaw
Strikers are joined by the crew of the Potemkin, 2,000 demonstrators are killed
Prince Troubetskoi visits the Tsar saying revolution is underway
Prince Troubetskoi visits the Tsar saying revolution is underway
2,000 are killed during unrest and the Potemkin mutiny
Strikes expand after the Potemkin mutiny.
Railworkers go on strike and paralyze the whole Russian rail network
Russian Poland is put under a state of siege
Socialist revolutionaries seek to overthrow the Tsar
128,000 workers take to the streets demanding an end to the World War and an increase in food
The February Revolution is ignited by International Womens Day, women textile workers and soldier's wives
General Khabalovs soldiers, acting under the Tsars orders, open fire on striking workers, 169 workers are killed, and over 1,000 people are injured
The strike doubles in size to around 200,000 workers, nearly half of all industrial workers in Petrograd are on strike
The strikers demand the overthrow of the autocracy and an end to the war
General Khabalov's soldiers, acting under the Tsar's orders, open fire on striking workers, 169 workers are killed & over 1,000 injured
The police launch wide scale arrests of over 100 leaders of revolutionary organisations, including the Bolsheviks
Khabalov has only 2,000 loyal troops as Petrograd is taken over by peasant soldiers
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