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Lodz in History

Browse historical events and people recorded at Lodz in Russia. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.

11 records6 event labels2 people1905โ€“1914

Historical events in Lodz

1905

1905
Revolution of 1905
Nikolai Aleksandrovich Romanov ยท Revolution of Russia

Socialist revolutionaries seek to overthrow the Tsar

1905
Strike
Nikolai Aleksandrovich Romanov ยท Revolution of Russia

Russian Poland is put under a state of siege

1905
Strike
Nikolai Aleksandrovich Romanov ยท Revolution of Russia

Socialist revolutionaries seek to overthrow the Tsar

1914

11 November 1914
Battle of Lodz
Paul Karlovitch Rennenkampf ยท World War, 1st

Mackensens Ninth Army strikes the one corps of Rennenkampfs First Army which was posted south of the Vistula and routed it, capturing 12,000 prisoners

11 November 1914
Battle of Lodz
Paul Karlovitch Rennenkampf ยท World War, 1st

The Russian First Army is heavilly defeated & the Russian offensive is called off. The Battle of Lodz takes place from November 11 to December 6, 1914, near Lodz in Poland, fought between the German Ninth Army and the Russian First, Second, and 5th Armies, in appalling winter conditions

11 November 1914
First Army
Paul Karlovitch Rennenkampf ยท World War, 1st

Mackensens Ninth Army strikes the one corps of Rennenkampfs First Army which was posted south of the Vistula and routed it, capturing 12,000 prisoners

11 November 1914
First Army
Paul Karlovitch Rennenkampf ยท World War, 1st

The Russian First Army is heavilly defeated & the Russian offensive is called off

11 November 1914
Ninth Army
Paul Karlovitch Rennenkampf ยท World War, 1st

Mackensens Ninth Army strikes the one corps of Rennenkampfs First Army which was posted south of the Vistula and routed it, capturing 12,000 prisoners

11 November 1914
Ninth Army
Paul Karlovitch Rennenkampf ยท World War, 1st

The Battle of Lodz takes place from November 11 to December 6, 1914, near Lodz in Poland, fought between the German Ninth Army and the Russian First, Second, and 5th Armies, in appalling winter conditions

6 December 1914
Battle of Lodz
Paul Karlovitch Rennenkampf ยท World War, 1st

The Russians had repulsed the Germans and saved Warsaw, which had been the objective of the original German offensive, the Germans, for their part, had caused the Russians to abandon their offensive into Silesia. Russian withdrawal from East Prussia, and conduct at the Battle of Lodz in November 1914 led to Rennenkampfs dismissal amid recriminations of incompetence and even treason

6 December 1914
Treason
Paul Karlovitch Rennenkampf ยท World War, 1st

Russian withdrawal from East Prussia, and conduct at the Battle of Lodz in November 1914 led to Rennenkampfs dismissal amid recriminations of incompetence and even treason

Provenance

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