1861 in Russia explained

Events from the year 1861 in Russia

Incumbents

• Monarch – Alexander II

Events

• • • • • • • • • February 27  - Russian troops fire on a crowd in Warsaw protesting Russian rule, killing 5 protesters.
• March 3 (February 19 O.S.)  - Emancipation reform of 1861: Serfdom is abolished.
• March 13  - Tsushima incident: the Russian corvette Posadnik arrives at Tsushima Island in the Korea Strait, Japan, provoking a reaction from the Japan.
• April 24 (N.S.)  - Bezdna in Russia is the scene of a peasant uprising; the military open fire and nearly 5000 are killed.^[1]
• May 21  - Russian sailors clash with Japanese samurai and farmers at Tsushima island.^[2]

Births

• 16 November - Arvid Järnefelt, Finnish author (d. 1932)

Notes and References

1. http://education.cambridge.org/media/577146/history_for_the_ib_diploma__imperial_russia__revolutions_and_the_emergence_of_the_soviet_state_1853%E2%80%93_samples.pdf http://education.cambridge.org/media/577146 "Imperial Russia, revolutions_and_the_emergence_of_the_Soviet_state"
2. https://books.google.com/books?id=bS3w6tGiraEC&pg=PA77 Negotiating with Imperialism, Michael R. Auslin, p. 79