April 22, 1870: Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, later known as Lenin, in the Russian city of Simbirsk.
March 13, 1881: ·Assassination of Tsar Alexander II.
January 24, 1886: Death of Ilya Nikolayevich Ulyanov, Lenin's father.
May 20, 1887: Alexander Ulyanov, Lenin's brother, hanged in St. Petersburg.
December 17, 1887: Lenin arrested in student protest at Kazan University, later expelled from the University.
November 1891: Lenin passes law examination as external student at St. Petersburg University.
Summer 1895: Lenin goes abroad for the first time, meets Plekhanov.
December 21, 1895: Lenin arrested by the Tsar's police.
February 1897: Lenin exiled to Siberia for three years.
March 1898: Social Democratic Party, first Russian Marxist
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Petersburg.
July 1900: Lenin travels to Western Europe.
December 1900: First issue of “Iskra” published in Germany.
March 1902: Publication of Lenin's “What Is To Be Done? “
July-August 1903: Second Congress of Social Democrats in Brussels and London; Bolshevik-Menshevik split emerges for the first time.
February 1904: Outbreak of Russo-Japanese War
January 22, 1905: "Bloody Sunday" in St. Petersburg, beginning of 1905 Revolution.
April-May 1905: Third Congress in London; Lenin dominates.
October 30, 1905: ·Nicholas II issues "October Manifesto," promising civil liberties and a democratically elected "Duma."
November 1905: Lenin returns to Russia.
December 1905: Lenin in Finland for a Bolshevik conference, where he meets Stalin for the first time.
December 1907: Lenin returns to Western Europe, settles in Switzerland
December 1908: Lenin moves to Paris, meets Inessa Armand.
January-February 1912: ·Split with Mensheviks becomes official, Bolsheviks form their own party.
June 1912: Lenin moves to Krakow in Austrian Poland.
May 1913: Lenin settles in Polish village of Poronin.
August-September 1914: Outbreak of World War I (1914-1918); Lenin leaves Poland for