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| 1825 | Rebellion |  |
| 14th Dec St Petersburg First day of the uprising of young Russian aristocratic army officers
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| 26th Dec St Petersburg 5 of the leaders are hanged & 100 conspirators sent to Siberia
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| 26th Dec St Petersburg Rebels proclaim Constantine Emperor & demand a Constitution
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| 26th Dec St Petersburg The Decembrist rebellion is suppressed
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| 26th Dec St Petersburg The Decembrists are fired on at St Petersburg's Senate Sqr leaving many dead
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| 1827 | Decree Cantonist Decree | |
| Conscripts all male Jews aged 12-25
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| 1828 | Invasion of Persia | |
| Russia conquers the Armenian provinces of Persia, bringing within her frontier the Monastery of Etchmiadzin, in the Khanate of Erivan, which is the seat of the Katholikos of All the Armenians
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| 1828 | Rule of Armenia | |
| Russia conquers the Armenian provinces of Persia, bringing within her frontier the Monastery of Etchmiadzin, in the Khanate of Erivan, which is the seat of the Katholikos of All the Armenians
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| 1830 | Rebellion | |
| July Outbreak of rebellion in Poland
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| 1831 | Rebellion | |
| July Novgorod Uses troops to suppress the rebellion in Novgorod
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| 1833 | Convention Munchengratz | |
| Munchengratz Austria, Prussia & Russia will go to each others' aid in combatting liberal insurgence
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| Munchengratz Crowned heads of Austria, Russia & Prussia renew the Holy Alliance which lasts 20 yrs
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| Munchengratz The Ottoman Empire is preserved & the partition of Poland retained
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| 1839 | Alliance | |
| Teplitz Meets Emperor Franz of Austria in Bohemia to support the Sultan
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| 1839 | Diplomacy | |
| Teplitz Meets Emperor Franz of Austria in Bohemia to support the Sultan
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| 1840 | Diplomacy | |
| Bosphorous Russia & Britain agree to support Turkey & defend the Bosphorous
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| 23rd May St Petersburg Leaves Russia on his way to London
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| 1st June Woolwich Arrives in Britain for the 1st time in 25 years
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| 1st June Woolwich Disembarks from the Dutch steamer, "Cyclops"
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| 2nd June London Pays a visit to Queen Victoria
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| 1841 | Convention London | |
| London The Allies will not send warships to the Dardanelles & Bosphorous if Turkey is neutral
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| 1842 | Rebellion | |
| July Kazan Suppresses a rebellion in the Kazan province
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| 1846 | Siege of Cracow | |
| 12th Mar Cracow Austrian & Russian troops occupy Cracow
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| 1849 | Exile | |
| Aug Helps drive out Hungary's Nationalist leader, Kossuth
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| 1849 | Invasion of Hungary | |
| June Hungary is invaded by a Russian Army sent by Tsar Nicholas I to aid Franz Josef
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| June Invades Hungary to assist Franz Josej against the Hungarian Nationalists
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| Aug Helps drive out Hungary's Nationalist leader, Kossuth
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| 1849 | Rule of Hungary | |
| 13th Aug Hungary's General Gorgey surrenders to the Russian forces & Russia gives Hungary back to Austria
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| 1850 | Denmark Prussia War | |
| 2nd July Prussia makes peace with Denmark, following Tsar Nicholas's advice
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| 1850 | Protocol Schleswig | |
| Schleswig France, Britain & Russia sign a protocol recognizing Danish rule in Schleswig
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| 1850 | Rule of Holstein | |
| Holstein France, Britain & Russia sign a protocol recognizing Danish rule in Holstein
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| 1850 | Rule of Schleswig | |
| Schleswig France, Britain & Russia sign a protocol recognizing Danish rule in Schleswig
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| 1851 | Diplomacy | |
| Warns Schwarzenburg Austria cannot expect Russian support if France goes to war
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| 1851 | Rule of Holy Land | |
| Napoleon III had his ambassador to the Ottoman Empire force the Ottomans to recognize France as the "sovereign authority" in the Holy Land
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| Napoleon III responds with a show of force, sending the ship of the line Charlemagne to the Black Sea, a "clear violation" of the London Straits Convention
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| Russia refers to the treaties of 1757 and 1774, the Ottomans reversed their earlier decision, renouncing the French treaty and insisting that Russia is the protector of the Christian faith in the Ottoman Empire
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| 1853 | Battle of Sinope | |
| 30th Nov Sinope The destruction of the Turkish ships provide Great Britain and France the casus belli for declaring war against Russia, on the side of the Ottoman Empire
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| 30th Nov Sinope The Russians destroy the Turkish Fleet at Sinope
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| 1853 | Declaration of Vienna Note | |
| July Vienna The Vienna Note is issued by the Allies to Turkey
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| 1853 | Declaration of War | |
| 4th Oct River Danube Turkey declares war on Russia & crosses the Danube under Michael Lattas
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| 1853 | Diplomacy | |
| Claims to be protector of Orthodox Christians in the Ottoman Empire
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| 1853 | Invasion of Romania | |
| Straits Goes through the Straits & occupies Turkey's Romanian principalities
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| Jerusalem Uses Turkey's oppression of Christians in Jerusalem to enter the Meditererranean
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| 1853 | Invasion of Turkey | |
| Claims to be protector of Orthodox Christians in the Ottoman Empire
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| 1853 | Publication | |
| July The Allied peace terms to Turkey in the Vienna Note are ignored
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| July The Allies demand Turkey not to alter the status of Christians without Russia & France
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| 1854 | Declaration of Vienna Four Pts | |
| 8th Aug Vienna Russia rejects conditions set by the Allies, the Vienna Four Points
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| 1854 | Declaration of War | |
| 28th Mar After Russia ignores an Anglo-French ultimatum to withdraw from the Danubian Principalities, Great Britain and France formally declare war
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| 1854 | Diplomacy | |
| 8th Aug Vienna Russia rejects conditions set by the Allies, the Vienna Four Points
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| 1854 | Invasion of Moldavia | |
| Moldavia The Tsar sends his troops into Moldavia and Wallachia (the "Danubian Principalities"), Great Britain, seeking to maintain the security of the Ottoman Empire, sends a fleet to the Dardanelles, where it joined another fleet sent by France
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| 1854 | Invasion of Wallachia | |
| Wallachia The Tsar sends his troops into Moldavia and Wallachia (the "Danubian Principalities"), Great Britain, seeking to maintain the security of the Ottoman Empire, sends a fleet to the Dardanelles, where it joined another fleet sent by France
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| 1854 | Siege of Sevatopol | |
| 25th Sep Sevatopol During the siege the Russians lost four 110- or 120-gun 3-decker ships of the line, twelve 84-gun 2-deckers and four 60-gun frigates in the Black Sea, plus a large number of smaller vessels
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| 1854 | Vienna Four Points | |
| 8th Aug Vienna Russia rejects conditions set by the Allies, the Vienna Four Points
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| 1855 | Capture | |
| Sevatopol Russia besieges and occupies the Turkish fortress of Kars
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| 1855 | Siege of Sevatopol | |
| Sevatopol Sevatopol is captured after about a year-long siege
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| 1855 | Siege of Sveaborg | |
| Sveaborg The Western Allied Baltic Fleet tries to destroy heavily defended Russian dockyards at Sveaborg outside Helsinki
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| 1856 | Congress of Paris | |
| 30th Mar Paris Final ratification of the peace agreement at Vienna
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| 1856 | Peace | |
| 1st Feb Vienna Preliminary Peace conditions are agreed at Vienna
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