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Timeline
April 22, 1870:
· Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, later known as Lenin,
in the Russian city of Simbirsk.
January 24, 1886:
· Death of Ilya Nikolayevich Ulyanov, Lenin's father.
May 20, 1887:
· Alexander Ulyanov, Lenin's brother, hanged in St.
Petersburg.
December 17, 1887:
· Lenin arrested in student protest at Kazan University,
later expelled from the University.
November 1891:
· Lenin passes law examination as external student at
St. Petersburg University.
Summer 1895:
· Lenin goes abroad for the first time, meets Plekhanov.
December 21, 1895:
· Lenin arrested by the Tsar's police.
February 10, 1895:
· Lenin exiled to Siberia for three years.
July 22, 1898:
· Lenin marries Nadezhda Krupskaya in Shushenskoe, Siberia.
February 10, 1900:
· Lenin's exile ends, and he returns to St. Petersburg.
July 1900:
· Lenin travels to Western Europe.
December 1900:
· First issue of Iskra published in
Germany.
March 1902:
· Publication of Lenin's What Is To Be Done?
July-August 1903:
· Second Congress of Social Democrats in Brussels and
London; Bolshevik-Menshevik split emerges for the first time.
February 1904:
· Outbreak of Russo-Japanese War
January 22, 1905:
· "Bloody Sunday" in St. Petersburg, beginning of 1905
Revolution.
April-May 1905:
· Third Congress in London; Lenin dominates.
October 30, 1905:
· Nicholas II issues "October Manifesto," promising
civil liberties and a democratically elected "Duma."
November 1905:
· Lenin returns to Russia.
December 1905:
· Lenin in Finland for a Bolshevik conference, where
he meets Stalin for the first time.
December 1907:
· Lenin returns to Western Europe, settles in Switzerland
December 1908:
· Lenin moves to Paris, meets Inessa Armand.
January-February 1912:
· Split with Mensheviks becomes official, Bolsheviks
form their own party.
June 1912:
· Lenin moves to Krakow in Austrian Poland.
May 1913:
· Lenin settles in Polish village of Poronin.
August-September 1914:
· Outbreak of World War I (1914-1918); Lenin leaves
Poland for Switzerland.
March 8, 1917:
· Beginning of Revolution in St. Petersburg.
March 15, 1917:
· Nicholas II abdicates, Provisional Government formed.
April 1917:
· Lenin takes "sealed train" through Germany back to
Russia.
April 16-17, 1917:
· Lenin reaches St. Petersburg/Petrograd, issues "April
Theses" advocating overthrow of Provisional Government.
July 17, 1917:
· Attempted Bolshevik coup in Petrograd ("July Days");
Lenin goes into hiding.
July 24, 1917:
· Kerensky becomes Prime Minister.
November 6-7, 1917:
· Bolsheviks seize power, Kerensky flees.
December 15, 1917:
· Temporary armistice signed with Germany.
December 1917:
· White armies begin to form in the Ukraine, beginning
of civil war.
January 18, 1918:
· Constituent Assembly convenes, and is forcibly broken
up by Bolsheviks.
March 3, 1918:
· Treaty of Brest-Litovsk signed with Germany, ending
Russia's involvement in World War I.
March 13, 1918:
· Trotsky appointed People's Commissar for War, takes
charge of the Red Army.
Spring-Summer 1918:
· Allied forces land in Murmansk, Archangel, and Vladivostok.
July 17, 1918:
· Murder of Nicholas II and his family in Ekaterinburg.
August 30, 1918:
· Assassination attempt on Lenin by Fanya Kaplan.
September 1918:
· Official beginning of the Red Terror when Lenin orders
the Red troops to begin taking hostages. White armies driven back
along the Volga.
November 1918:
· End of World War I in Western Europe.
April 1919:
· First concentration camps established in Russia.
April 26, 1920:
· Poland invades Russia.
June 1920:
· Poles driven back to Warsaw by Red Army.
September 24, 1920:
· Inessa Armand dies.
November 1920:
· Evacuation of the last White forces across the Black
Sea.
1921:
· Famine in Russia, nearly 5 million die.
March 1921:
· Military uprising on Kronstadt Island.
March 8, 1921:
· Tenth Party Congress in Moscow, Lenin announces New Economic
Policy.
April 1922:
· Stalin appointed General Secretary of the Communist
Party.
May 26, 1922:
· Lenin suffers first stroke.
Summer 1922:
· Lenin convalesces at Gorki.
December 16, 1922:
· Lenin suffers second stroke.
December-January 1922-23:
· Lenin dictates his "Testament", warning against Stalin.
March 10, 1923:
· Lenin suffers his third stroke, loses the power of
speech.
January 21, 1924:
· Lenin dies
January 27, 1924:
· Lenin's embalmed body installed in Red Square mausoleum.
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