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Vladimir Lenin
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Timeline
April 22, 1870:
·Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, later known as Lenin,
in the Russian city of Simbirsk.
March 13, 1881:
·Assassination of Tsar Alexander II.
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 1897:
·Lenin exiled to Siberia for three years.
March 1898:
·Social Democratic Party, first Russian Marxist party,
founded in Minsk.
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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