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| 1917 | Khabalov, Sergei Semenovich |  |
| 24th Feb Petrograd General Khabalov's soldiers, acting under the Tsar's orders, open fire on striking workers, 169 workers are killed, and over 1,000 people are injured |
| 24th Feb Petrograd The Litovsky and Preobrazhensky Regiments join a new rebel army, and storm the Main Arsenal, liberating 40,000 rifles, fully armed, they move on to liberate political prisoners frm Kresty jail |
| 1917 | Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov | |
| 1st Mar Petrograd The first Joint Plenum of the Soviet of Workers ' and Soldiers' Deputies issues Soviet Order No. 1: all soldiers' units will elect Soldiers' Committees & the decree stipulates that soldiers will now accept orders from the Soldiers' Soviet |
| 1917 | Nicholas II | |
| 3rd Feb Petrograd The Executive Committee of the Petrograd Soviet orders the arrest of Nicholas II |
| 22nd Feb Mogilev The Tsar leaves for the General Headquarters in Mogilev |
| 23rd Feb Petrograd The February Revolution begins, ignited by International Women's Day, militant women textile workers, many of whom are soldiers' wives, inititate a massive strike in Petrograd |
| 24th Feb Petrograd By nightfall, 66,000 men of the Petrograd garrison - a day ago ordered to fire on striking workers - have now joined the striking workers, fully armed |
| 24th Feb Petrograd The Litovsky and Preobrazhensky Regiments join a new rebel army, and storm the Main Arsenal, liberating 40,000 rifles, fully armed, they move on to liberate political prisoners frm Kresty jail |
| 24th Feb Petrograd The strike doubles in size to around 200,000 workers, nearly half of all industrial workers in Petrograd are on strike, the new demands of the strike shift heavily towards overthrowing the autocracy and putting and end to the war |
| 25th Feb Mogilev Armed clashes with the police occur, with many killed and wounded, Empress Alexandra writes to Nicholas II, "This is a hooligan campaign, with boys and girls running about shouting that they have no bread..all this will surely pass" |
| 26th Feb Petrograd The police launch wide scale arrests of over 100 leaders of revolutionary organisations, including the Bolsheviks, General Khabalov's soldiers, acting under the Tsar's orders, open fire on striking workers, 169 workers are killed & over 1,000 injured |
| 27th Feb Petrograd Rodzianko asks the Duma to convene to resolve on a course of action, the group creates a Provisional Committee, which urgently asks the Tsar to save himself by sharing power with a Prime Minister, the Tsar refuses |
| 28th Feb The revolutionary masses seize the city of Moscow, the Tsar's Ministers are arrested, the Provisional Committee assumes control of the Army, while the Kronstadt sailors mutiny against their officers |
| 1st Mar Petrograd The first Joint Plenum of the Soviet of Workers ' and Soldiers' Deputies issues Soviet Order No. 1: all soldiers' units will elect Soldiers' Committees & the decree stipulates that soldiers will now accept orders from the Soldiers' Soviet |
| 1917 | Rodzianko, Mikhail Vladimirovich | |
| 27th Feb Petrograd Rodzianko asks the Duma to convene to resolve on a course of action, the group creates a Provisional Committee, which urgently asks the Tsar to save himself by sharing power with a Prime Minister, the Tsar refuses |
