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List of events
Events from the year 1917 in
Russia .
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(October 2015 )
March 8
March 12 – The
Duma declares a
Provisional Government .
March 15 (N.S.) (
March 2 , O.S.) – Emperor
Nicholas II of Russia abdicates his and his son's claims. This is considered to be the end of the
Russian Empire .
March 17 (N.S.) (
March 4 , O.S.) –
Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia refuses the throne, and power passes to the Provisional Government under Prince
Georgy Lvov .
March 25 – The
Georgian Orthodox Church restores the
autocephaly abolished in
1811 .
April 8 (N.S.) (
March 26 , O.S.) – In
Petrograd , 40,000 ethnic
Estonians demand
national autonomy .
April 12 (N.S.) (
March 30 O.S.) – The
Autonomous Governorate of Estonia is formed within
Russia from the
Governorate of Estonia and the Northern part of the
Governorate of Livonia .
April 16
July 6 –
World War I :
July 16 –
July 17 –
Russian troops mutiny, abandon the
Austrian front and retreat to the
Ukraine ; hundreds are shot by their commanding officers during the retreat.
July 16 –
July 18 – Clashes in
Petrograd in
July Days ;
Lenin escapes to
Finland ;
Trotsky is arrested.
July 20
July 20 –
July 28 – WWI:
Austrian and
German forces repulse the
Russian advance into
Galicia .
July 30 – The
Parliament of Finland is dissolved by the
Russian Provisional Government .
September 14 – Russia is declared a
republic by the
Provisional Government .
September 23 –
Leon Trotsky is elected Chairman of the
Petrograd Soviet .
September 25 – The
Mossovet (
Moscow Soviet of People's Deputies) votes to side with the
Bolsheviks .
October 25 (O.S.) (
November 7 , N.S.) – Traditional beginning date of the
October Revolution and
Russian Civil War .
November 5 (N.S.) (
October 23 , O.S.) – Estonian communists seize power in
Tallinn ,
Autonomous Governorate of Estonia .
Militants from Trotsky's committee join with Bolshevik soldiers to seize government buildings and pounce on members of the provisional government.
November 7
December 6
The Senate of Finland officially declares the country's independence from
Russia .
December 20 – The
Cheka is established in Russia.
Following the
October Revolution ,
Alexandra Kollontai is appointed
People's Commissar for Social Welfare in the
Council of People's Commissars of the
Government of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic , making her the first woman
cabinet
minister in Europe.
Births
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Deaths
References
^ Prof. Pritam Singh (1993). Punjabi Sahit Di Itihaskari (Punjabi) Historiography of Punjabi Literature . p. 34.
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