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Events from the year 1914 in Russia.

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  • 8 April–9 May - St. Petersburg 1914 chess tournament
  • 10 May - opening of Yevpatoria tram [ru]
  • 29 June - world's first high-speed long-range flight of a heavy aircraft Ilya Muromets started, on the route Saint Petersburg - Orsha - Kopys - Kiev - Saint Petersburg
  • 8 July - Government suppression of striking oil workers in Baku triggers a short but intensive wave of strikes in St Petersburg, lasting almost a week.
  • 28 July - Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia. World War I begins
  • 29 July - In connection with the difficult international situation, Russia begins mobilization in the areas bordering Austria-Hungary. General mobilization is announced the next day. Emperor Nicholas II of Russia sent a telegram to Germany's Wilhelm II with a proposal to "transfer the Austria/Serbia question to the Hague Conference." Wilhelm did not reply to this telegram.
  • 30 July - Prince Georgy Lvov creates the All-Russian Zemstvo Union for the Relief of Sick and Wounded Soldiers.
  • 1 August - German Empire declares war on Russia
  • 6 August - Austria-Hungary declares war on Russia
  • 10 August - Austria-Hungary invades Russia[1]
  • 17 August - The Battle of Tannenberg ends
  • 18 August - St Petersburg is renamed Petrograd
  • 26–30 August - Battle of Tannenberg: German victory
  • 29 August - Abschwangen massacre
  • 31 August - Emperor Nicholas II renamed St. Petersburg to Petrograd as a response to the rise of anti-German sentiment.
  • 1 September - The Battle of the Masurian Lakes ends
  • 3 September - the Southern Russian Army captured Lemberg, the capital of Galacia[2]
  • 9 September - Allied forces halt German advance into France during First Battle of the Marne.
  • 22 October - The five Bolshevik deputies in the Duma are arrested. They are put on trial in February 1915 and all are sentenced to exile in Siberia.[3]
  • 1 November - Russia declares war on Ottoman Turkey
  • 25 December - Battle of Ardahan begins

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References

  1. ^ "Timeline (1914 - 1921) | A World at War | Articles and Essays | Stars and Stripes: The American Soldiers' Newspaper of World War I, 1918-1919 | Digital Collections | Library of Congress". Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA. Retrieved 2024-09-04.
  2. ^ "Glossary of Events: WWI: Russia". www.marxists.org. Retrieved 2024-09-04.
  3. ^ alphahis (2019-02-04). "Russian Revolution timeline 1914-16". Russian Revolution. Retrieved 2024-09-03.
  4. ^ Anatoly Tarasov (1997). Tarasov: The Father of Russian Hockey : Hockey's Rise to International Prominence Through the Eyes of a Coaching Legend. Griffin Publishing Group. p. 165. ISBN 978-1-882180-74-5.

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