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Crimean War
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1853-1856
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Compulsory MiIlitary service reduced from 25 to 16 years
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1859
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Emancipation of the Serfs
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1861
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Introduction of new, modern, western style judicial system
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1864
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Army rank now based on merit and skill rather than wealth/social status
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1864
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Local Zemstvo appeared in most parts of European Russia
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1864
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Rigid censorship rules eased
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1865
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Alexander II's eldest son dies & his wife withdraws from public appearances
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1865
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Liberal ministers replaced with conservatives, including appointing Dmitry Tolstoy as minister of education
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1866
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Dmitry Karakazov attempts to shoot Alexander
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April 1866
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Antoni Berezowski attempts to shoot Alexander and sons in carriage
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1867
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Only students from Gimnaziya schools could go to university
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1871
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Trial of 193- 153/193 revolutionaries acquitted, rest had light punishment. Brought publicity
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1877-1878
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Russo-Turkish War
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1877-1878
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Case of Vera Zasulich- found not guilty after shooting Dmitri Trepov, governor of St Petersburg
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1878
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Governor generals established, held emergency powers to prosecute in military court & exile political offenders
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1879
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Aleksander Soloviev shoots at Alexander 5 times
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April 1879
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Bomb attempting to kill Alexander placed under wrong train
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December 1879
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Third Section disbanded
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1880
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Mine under WInter Palace dining room kills 12 and wounds 50- Alexander late for dinner
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Februrary 1880
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Loris-Melikov constitution signed
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13th March 1881
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Alexander II assassinated by people's will
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13th March 1881
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Okhrana allowed to imprison suspects without trial
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1881
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Ignatiev fired as minister of Interior and replaced by reactionary Tolstoy after proposing an Assembly of the Land to represent the peasantry
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1881
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Ignatiev becomes minister of finance and passes a law making it easier for peasants to rent state land
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May 1881
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Vicious Pogroms against Jews, women raped & men killed
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December 1881
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Censorship Laws
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1882
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Ivan Delyanov becomes Minister of Education
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1882
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Censorship law gives government total control over newspapers
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1882
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Bunge appointed Minister of Finance
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1882
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Bunge instates Peasant's land bank to help peasant's buy their own farms
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1882
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May laws added to Jewish discrimination. Included restrictions 'beyond the pale'
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May 1882
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14 Major Newspapers closed
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1882-1889
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Universities lost autonomy and couldn't control the syllabus
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1884
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Russification drive
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1885
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Bunge passes laws to improve working conditions for women and children
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1885
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Bunge dismissed
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1886
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Vyshnegradsky appointed Minister of Finance
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1886
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Tuition Fees increased
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1887
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Alexander III's train derailed by terrorist bomb; he suffers kidney injuries
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1888
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Instated Land Captains
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1889
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Zemstva vote restricted- Doctors, Teachers & Wealthy Middle Classes can't vote
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1890 & 1892
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Famine
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1891
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Zemsta famine relief
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1891
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Sergei Witte becomes Minister of Finance
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1892
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Peasants banned from Mir
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1893
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Alexander dies of kidney failure
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1894
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