Bloody Sunday of 1905 was a massacre in St Petersburg in which imperial troops opened fire on a peaceful procession of workers marching to the Winter Palace to present a petition to Tsar Nicholas II. They were led by the priest Georgy Gapon, and they asked for better working conditions, an eight-hour day and political reforms. The tsar was not at the palace, and soldiers shot at the crowds in several places in the city, killing and wounding many people, with estimates of the dead ranging from about one hundred and thirty up to several hundred or more. The massacre destroyed the popular image of the tsar as a protector of his people, and it set off the Russian Revolution of 1905. The date is given according to the old Russian calendar.
Before and after
- from 1905 to 1917Rise of Black Hundreds
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- 1905Henry Fairfield Osborn names Tyrannosaurus rex
- 2 January 1905Discovery of Elara
- 9 January 1905Bloody Sunday
- from 22 January 1905 to 16 June 1907Russian Revolution of 1905
- 26 January 1905Discovery of Cullinan Diamond
- 2 February 1905Birth of Ayn Rand
- 23 February 1905Founding of Rotary International
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The era
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