Potemkin (1905) | Timeline

The Russian battleship Potemkin was a pre-dreadnought battleship built for the Imperial Russian Navy's Black Sea Fleet. She became famous when the crew rebelled against the officers in June 1905 (during that year's revolution), which is now viewed as a first step towards the Russian Revolution of 1917. The mutiny later formed the basis of Sergei Eisenstein's 1925 silent film The Battleship Potemkin. (Intro from Wikipedia)

June 12, 1897 - The design for the new pre-dreadnought battleship "Potemkin" is approved

December 27, 1897 - Nikolayev, Ukraine - Construction of the "Potemkin" begins

October 28, 1898 - Nikolayev - "Potemkin" is laid down

October 9, 1900 - Nikolayev - "Potemkin" is launched

July 4, 1902 - Sevastopol - Transfered to Sevastopol for fitting out

September 1(?), 1903 - Off Crimea - Begins sea trials

December 20, 1903 - Sevastopol - Commission deadline is foiled by a fire in the boiler room

May 1(?), 1905 - Sevastopol - Battleship "Potemkin" is commissioned =(START)

June 27, 1905 - near Tendra Spit, off the Ukranian coast | Odessa - While at gunnery practice near Tendra Spit off the ukraninan coast, an uprising begins when the ship's second in command threatens to shoot crew members for their refusal to eat the borscht made from rotten maggoty meat. The officer is killed after he kills one o the mutiny's leaders, Grigory Vakulinchuk. Seven of the ship's 18 officers are killed, including the captain. A torpedo boat "Ismail" is captured and the mutineers organize a committee of 25 sailors, led by Afanasi Matushenko, to run the battleship. They decide to head for Odessa flying a red flag

June 29, 1905 - Odessa - Vakulinchuk's funeral turns into a political demonstration and the army attempts to ambush the sailors. In retaliation, the ship fires at the theatre where a high-level military meeting was scheduled to take place, but misses

June 30, 1905 - Odessa - "Potemkin" departs from Odessa to meet three battleships sent to force the crew to surrender or sink the ship

July 1, 1905 - Off Odessa - The mutineers, together with the "Ismail" decide to sail for Constanța, Romania, to restock coal, water and food. The romanians refuse and send the cruiser "Elisabeta" to the area

July 5, 1905 - Theodosia, Crimea - "Potemkin" arrives at Theodosia, but the governor refuses to give them anything other than food.

July 6, 1905 - Theodosia, Crimea - The mutineers attempt to seize several barges of coal, but the port's garrison ambushes them and kills or captures 22 sailors. "Potemkin" departs for Constanța

July 7, 1905 - Constanța, Romania - "Potemkin" arrives at Constanța. The romanians agree to give asylum to the crew if they disarm themselves and surrender the ship. The crew accepts the terms, however, Matushenko orders the ship's kingston valves to be opened so she would sink. At the same time, the crew of the "Ismail" decides to sails back to Sevastopol and turn themselves in.

July 9, 1905 -  Constanța, Romania - Real Admiral Pisarevsky reaches Constanța to negotiate the return of the ship to the russians. "Potemkin", was half sunk in the harbour and flying the romanian flag

July 10, 1905 - Constanța, Romania - After being refloated, "Potemkin" begins being towed to Sevastopol, due to the damage in her engines and boliers made by salt water 

July 14, 1905 - Sevastopol - Potemkin arrives in Sevastopol

October 12, 1905 - Sevastopol - Potemkin is renamed "Panteleimon"

February 1(?), 1909 - Sevastopol - "Panteleimon" receives an experimental underwater communications set

June 11, 1909 - "Panteleimon" accidentally rams and sinks the submarine "Kambala" at night, killing all 16 crewmen aboard

October 2, 1911 - "Panteleimon" runs aground while returning from a port visit to Constanța

January 10, 1912 - Sevastopol(?) - "Panteleimon" begins being extensively repaired, with replacement of boiler foundations, plating and a large number of its hull frames

April 25, 1912 - Sevastopol(?) - Repairs completed

November 17, 1914 - Off Trebizond, Ottoman Empire - A russian naval force, including "Panteleimon", attacks the ottoman port of Trebizond

November 18, 1914 - Off Cape Sarych, Crimea - The russian force is intercepted on their way back to port by the turks - Battle of Cape Sarych - inconclusive.

March 18, 1915 - near the Mouth of the Bosphorus - Supports "Rotislav" and "Tri Sviatitelia" while they bombard ottoman fortifications at the mouth of the Bosphorus

April 3, 1915 - Odessa - The russian squadron departs to intercept a raiding ottoman force

April 25, 1915 - near the Mouth of the Bosphorus - Supports "Rotislav" and "Tri Sviatitelia" while they bombard ottoman fortifications at the mouth of the Bosphorus

May 2, 1915 - near the Mouth of the Bosphorus - "Panteleimon" bombards the bosphorus forts together with "Rotislav" and "Tri Sviatitelia"

May 3, 1915 - near the Mouth of the Bosphorus - "Panteleimon" bombards the bosphorus forts together with "Rotislav" and "Tri Sviatitelia"

May 9, 1915 - Between Kozlu and Eregli - The russian squadron attacks ottoman shipping between Kozlu and Eregli, sinking four steamers and many sailing ships. Pantelimon hits the ottoman battleship "Yavuz Sultam Selim" twice

May 10, 1915 - Black Sea, 25 miles from the Bosphorus - Engagement with the ottoman battlecruiser "Yavuz Sultam Selim" - inconclusive

August 1, 1915 - All Black Sea pre-dreadnoughts are transfered to the 2nd Battleship Brigade, after the more powerful dreadnought "Imperatritsa Mariya" enters service

October 1, 1915 - off Zonguldak, Ottoman Empire - Panteleimon bombards Zonguldak, covered by the new dreadnought "Imperatritsa Mariya"

April 15, 1916 - Off Trebizond - Supports russian troops during the capture of Trebizond

January 1(?), 1917 - Participates in an anti-shipping sweep off the northwesten anatolian coast that destroys 39 ottoman sailing ships

April 13, 1917 - The ship is renamed "Potemkin-Tavricheskiy"

May 11, 1917 - Renamed "Borets za Svobodu"

December 29, 1917 - Sevastopol - "Borets za Svobodu" becomes part of the new Red Black Sea Fleet

March 1(?), 1918 - Sevastopol - Placed in reserve

May 1, 1918 - Sevastopol - Captured by the germans

November 24, 1918 - Sevastopol - The ship is handed over to the Allies after the Armistice

April 19, 1919 - Sevastopol - The british wreck her engines when they leave Crimea to prevent the advancing bolsheviks from using it against the white russians

April 29, 1919 - Sevastopol - Captured by the Red Army's ukranian front

June 24, 1920 - Sevastopol - Captured by the White Russians

November 1(?), 1920 - Sevastopol - "Borets za Svobodu" is abandoned by the white russians when they evacuate Crimea

January 1, 1923 - Sevastopol - Begins being scrapped =(END)

Lenin | Timeline

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (22 April 1870 – 21 January 1924), better known by his alias Lenin, was a Russian revolutionary, politician, and political theorist. He served as head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 to 1924 and of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1924. Under his administration, Russia and then the wider Soviet Union became a one-party communist state governed by the Russian Communist Party. Ideologically a communist, he developed a variant of Marxism known as Leninism. (Intro from Wikipedia)

April 22, 1870 - Simbirsk (today Ulyanovsk), Russian empire - Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov is born
April 28, 1870 - Simbirsk - Vladimir is baptized
August 28, 1879 - Simbirsk - Vladimir is accepted into Simbirsk classical Gymnasium
January 24, 1886 - Simbirsk - Vladimir's father, Ilya Ulyanov, dies of brain haemorrhage. He renounces his belief in God
March 13, 1886 - While in Simbirsk - His brother Alexander, a conspirator against the Monarchy, is arrested for participating in an attempt on the life of Tsar Alexander III
May 20, 1886 - While in Simbirsk - His brother Alexander is executed by hanging
August 25, 1887 - Kazan - Vladimir enrolls at Kazan University
December 16, 1887 - Kazan - Already a representative elected of the the University's "zemlyachestvo council" (a society of men living away from their home regions), he takes part in a demonstration against government restrictions that banned student societies =(START)
December 17, 1887 - Kazan - He is arrested and expelled from the University
December 19, 1887 - Lenino-Kokushkino (E. of Kazan) - Vladimir is exiled from Kazan to the village of Lenino-Kokushkino
October 1(?), 1888 - Kazan - Vladimir is authorized to return to Kazan. He begins reading Marx
May 15, 1889 - Alakayevka (near Samara) - Vladimir moves to the near village of Alakayevka
October 23, 1889 - Samara - The Ulyanov family moves to Samara. Vladimir embraces marxism in Alexei Sklyarenko's socialist discussion circle
May 29, 1890 - Samara - Maria Ulyanova persuades the authorities to allow Vladimir to take his exams externally at the University of Saint-Petersburg. He obtains the equivalent of a first-class degree with honours
September(?) 1(?), 1890 - Saint-Petersburg - Visits Saint-Petersburg in connection with his examinations at the city's University
November 5, 1890 - Saint-Petersburg - Vladimir departs to Samara
April 24, 1891 - Saint-Petersburg - Examinations at the Law Faculty of Saint-Petersburg University
May 29, 1891 - Saint-Petersburg - Departs to Samara
July(?) 1(?), 1891 - Samara - Returns to Samara
September 28, 1891 - Saint-Petersburg - Last of the examinations at Saint-Petersburg University
November 24, 1891 - Samara - Returns to Samara
January 26, 1892 - Samara - Vladimir receives a University graduation diploma, first Class
February 11, 1892 - Samara - He enters on the rolls of Junior Barristers
August 4, 1892 - Samara - Vladimir Ulyanov is granted the right to practise Law
September(?) 1(?), 1893 - Nizhny Novgorod - Stops at Nizhny-Novgorod on his way to Saint-Petersburg
September 12, 1893 - Saint-Petersburg - Vladimir arrives in Saint-Petersburg
September 15, 1893 - Saint-Petersburg - Ulyanov is registered as Junior Barrister to M.F.Wolkenstein
December(?) 1(?), 1893 - Saint-Petersburg - Vladimir Ulyanov becomes the leader of the Saint-Petersburg marxists
January 1(?), 1894 - Moscow - He travels to Moscow in the beginning of January
June 26, 1894 - Saint-Petersburg - Departs to Moscow
August(?) 1(?), 1894 - Samara - Summer with relatives in Samara
September 8, 1894 - Saint-Petersburg - Returns to Saint-Petersburg (from Moscow)
December(?) 1(?), 1894 - Saint-Petersburg - Ulyanov leads a marxist worker's circle and begins a relationship with Nadezhda "Nadya" Krupskaya, a marxist schoolteacher
May 7, 1895 - Saint-Petersburg - Departs to Switzerland to establish contact with the Emancipation of Labour group
May 15(?), 1895 - Geneva, Switzerland - Meets members of the Emancipation of Labour group
July(?) 1(?), 1895 - Paris, France - Living in Paris. Ulyanov becomes acquainted with Paul Lafargue
July(?) 15(?), 1895 - Switzerland - Ulyanov takes a cure for tuberculosis of the stomach at a swiss sanatorium
August 3, 1895 - Niederbarnim, Berlin - Attens a Social-Democratic meeting. He studies for 6 weeks at the Staatsbibliothek, meeting the marxist activist Wilhelm Liebknecht
September 19, 1895 - Saint-Petersburg - Returns to Saint-Petersburg with illegal marxist literature
September(?) 25(?), 1895 - Vilnius | Moscow | Orekhovo-Zuyevo - Visits to Vilnius, Moscow and Orekhovo-Zuyevo to establish contacts with local social-democratic circles
October 11, 1895 - Saint-Petersburg - Returns to Saint-Petersburg

"Lenin", police mugshot 1895

December 20, 1895 - Saint-Petersburg - Ulyanov and five others are arrested when the police raids one of their houses and seizes the first issue of their new newspaper "Rabocheye Delo"
January 2, 1896 - Saint-Petersburg - Ulyanov is interrogated in prison
August 1(?), 1896 - Saint-Petersburg - Nadya is arrested for organizing a strike and sentenced to exile in Ufa
February 10, 1897 - Saint-Petersburg - Ulyanov is sentenced to 3 years' exile in eastern Siberia
March 1, 1897 - Saint-Petersburg - Departs for exile in Siberia, via Moscow
March 2, 1897 - Moscow - Allowed to stay 4 days with his mother in Moscow
March 16, 1897 - Krasnoyarsk - Ulyanov arrives in Krasnoyarsk
May 12, 1897 - Krasnoyarsk - Departs from Krasnoyarsk for Shushenskoye
May 20, 1897 - Shushenskoye, Krasnoyarsk Kai, Central Siberia - Ulyanov arrives in Shushenskoye. Nadya joins him there
October 9, 1897 - Minusinsk - Travels to Minusinsk to make the acquaintance of exiled members of the Narodnaya Volya and Narodnoye Pravo
October 11, 1897 - Tesinskoye - Spends 5 days with exiled social-democrats at Tesinskoye
May 18, 1898 - Minusinsk - Ulyanov arrives in Minusinsk
June 1(?), 1898 - Minusinsk - Ulyanov and Nadya depart from Shushenskoye for Minusinsk
July 22, 1898 - Shushenskoye - Ulyanov and Nadezhda Krupskaya are married
September 23, 1898 - Krasnoyarsk - Ulyanov travels to Krasnoyarsk
January 5, 1899 - Minusinsk - Ulyanov and Krupskaya attend a meeting of exiled marxists in Minusinsk
April 5, 1899 - While in Shushenskoye - "The Development of Capitalism" is published, under the signature of "Vladimir Ilyn"
May 14, 1899 - Shushenskoye - Ulyanov's house is searched by the police and he is interrogated
February 10, 1900 - Shushenskoye - Ulyanov's terms of exile end. He and Nadya depart to western Russia. Forbidden to live in the metropolitan cities, university towns and industrial centers, Lenin chooses Pskov
February 15(?), 1900 - Ufa - Ulyanov and Nadya reach Ufa, where she has to stay to complete her term of exile
March(?) 1(?), 1900 - Saint-Petersburg - Illegal visit to Saint-Petersburg, evading police surveillance
March 10, 1900 - Pskov - Ulyanov arrives in Pskov
May 18, 1900 - Pskov - Obtains a passport to travel to Germany
June 2, 1900 - Saint-Petersburg - Illegal visit to Saint-Petersburg
June 3, 1900 - Saint-Petersburg - Ulyanov is arrested and interrogated
June 13, 1900 - Saint-Petersburg - Released from prison
June 14, 1900 - Podolsk - Ulyanov travels to Podolsk, near Moscow, to live with relatives
June 20, 1900 - Podolsk - Ulyanov travels to meet Nadya in Ufa, via Nizhny Novgorod
June 21, 1900 - Nizhny Novgorod - Meeting with social-democrats in Nizhny Novgorod
July 15, 1900 - Ufa - Departs to Podolsk
July 23, 1900 - Podolsk - Returns to Podolsk
July 29, 1900 - Podolsk - Departs to Switzerland
August 5(?), 1900 - Zurich, Switzerland - Arrives in Zurich
August 24, 1900 - Corsier, near Geneva - Attends a conference with the Emancipation of Labour group
September 6, 1900 - Nuremberg | Munich - Travels from Nuremberg to Munich
December 14, 1900 - Leipzig - Travels to Leipzig to prepare the first issue of "Iskra" for printing
December 24, 1900 - While in Munich - First issue of "Iskra" is published
February 15(?), 1901 - Prague | Vienna - Ulyanov travels to Prague and Vienna to arrange for Nadya to go abroad
December 1(?), 1901 - Munich - Vladimir Ulyanov adopts the "nom de guerre" of "LENIN"
February 15(?), 1902 - Munich - "What is to be done? Burning questions of our movement" is published in Stuttgart. Vladimir Ulyanov signs for the first time as "Lenin"
April 15(?), 1902 - London - Lenin and Nadya move to London with "Iskra" under the name of Dr and Mrs Jacob Richter, becoming friends with Leon Trotsky
April 29, 1902 - London - Lenin enters the British Library for the first time
June 25(?), 1902 - Paris - Participates of a meeting of russian political emigrés in Paris
July(?) 1(?), 1902 - Loguivy, Brittany - Summer Holidays with his mother and sister Anyuta in Loguivy
July 12, 1902 - Loguivy, Brittany - Letter to G.V. Plekhanov
July 16, 1902 - Loguivy, Brittany - Letter to Nadya in London
July 24, 1902 - Loguivy, Brittany - Letter sent from Loguivy
November 29, 1902 - London - Speech on "the programmes and tactics of the socialist-Revolutionaries" at Liberty Hall, Whitechapel
February 4, 1903 - London - Letter to his mother in Samara
March 1(?), 1903 - London - Lenin decides that Trotsky should not return to Russia but stay abroad and be co-opted on the editorial board of "Iskra"
March 2, 1903 - London - Letter to Plekhanov
March 21, 1903 - London - Speaks at a meeting to commemorate the anniversary of the Paris Commune at the New Alexandra Hall
April 29, 1903 - England - Lenin leaves England
May 1(?), 1903 - Geneva, Switzerland - Lenin and Nadya move the "Iskra" management to Geneva
July 30, 1903 - Brussels - First session of the 2nd congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP)
August 11, 1903 - London - The 2nd Congress of the RSDLP moves to London
August 24, 1903 - London - After the congress, Lenin leads a group of bolsheviks to Highgate Cemetery to visit the grave of Karl Marx
November 17, 1903 - London - The party splits into two irreconcilable factions: the bolsheviks, headed by Lenin, and the Mensheviks, headed by Julius Martov
May 1(?), 1904 - Geneva, Switzerland - Publishes the anti-menshevik tract "One step forward, two steps back"
June(?) 1(?), 1904 - Switzerland - Hiking holiday in Switzerland to recuperate from illness
January 3, 1905 - While in Geneva - A strike breaks out at the Putilov Works in Saint Petersburg
January 7, 1905 - While in Geneva - The strike in Saint Petersburg grows into a general strike with 140,000 strikers
January 9, 1905 - While in Geneva - Bloody Sunday - Father Georgi Gapon leads a peaceful procession of citizens through the streets to the Winter Palace to beseech the Tsar for food and relief from the oppressive government. The Palace Guard fires on the peaceful demonstration, resulting in the deaths of some 1,000 demonstrators
April 12, 1905 - London - The 3rd RSDLP congress begins
May 10, 1905 - London - The 3rd RSDLP congress ends
July 1(?), 1905 - Geneva, Switzerland - Lenin publishes "Two tactics of Social-Democracy in the Democratic Revolution"
October 7, 1905 - While in Geneva - The railway workers of the Moscow–Kazan Railway go out on strike
November 1(?), 1905 - Saint-Petersburg - Returns to Saint-Petersburg

Stalin and Lenin, 1905

December 12, 1905 - Tammerfors (Tampere, Finland) - Lenin meets Dzhugashvili (Stalin) for the first time in a meeting with bolshevik leaders
December 17, 1905 - Tammerfors (Tampere, Finland) - End of the meeting with bolshevik leaders, including Dzhugashvili
April 23, 1906 - Stockholm, Sweden - The Fourth (Unity) Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party begins
May 8, 1906 - Stockholm - The Fourth (Unity) Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party ends
August 10, 1906 - Kuokkala, Finland (today Repino, Russia) - Lenin receives a visit from Rosa Luxemburg and a meeting takes place with the participation of Bogdanov and other leaders of the Russian revolution
May 13, 1907 - London - Attends the 5th Congress of the RSDLP (until June 1st)
June 1, 1907 - London - End of the congress. Lenin departs from London
July 1(?), 1907 - near Helsinki, Finland - Conference in Finland with Krasin, Bogdanov and the young Kamenev
August 14, 1907 - Berlin - Letter to Maxim Gorky in Capri
August 15, 1907 - Stuttgart - Arrives in Stuttgart
August 18, 1907 - Stuttgart, Germany - The International Socialist Congress begins
August 24, 1907 - Stuttgart - The International Socialist Congress end
September(?) 1(?), 1907 - Kuokkala, Finland (today Repino, Russia) - Returns to Kuokkala, Finland
October 1(?), 1907 - Kuokkala - Letter to Karl Hjalmar Branting
November 2, 1907 - Kuokkala - Letter to A.V. Lunacharsky
November 30(?), 1907 - Helsinki, Finland - Lenin leaves Kuokkala and moves to Helsinki when the police begins searching  the vicinity
December 12, 1907 - Nauvo Island, SW of Turku, Finland - To avoid okhrana agents at Turku, Lenin travels to the second stage of the ferry's journey to Stockholm at Nauvo Island. Between Lillmälö island and Nauvo island, he almost dies when the ice breaks beneath his feet
January(?) 1(?), 1908 - Berlin - On the way from Stockholm to Geneva, Lenin and Nadya visit Rosa Luxemburg in Berlin
January 5(?), 1908 - Geneva, Switzerland - Lenin returns to Geneva, via Berlin
January 27, 1908 - Geneva - Letter to Magnus Nielsen in Oslo
January 30, 1908 - Geneva - Letter to the editors of "Berner Tagwacht"
February(?) 20(?), 1908 - Geneva - Discreet meeting with Stalin
April 23, 1908 - Capri, Italy - Visits Maxim Gorki in Capri

Lenin and Gorki playing chess
Island of Capri, 1908

April 30, 1908 - Capri - Lenin departs to Geneva
May 1, 1908 - Geneva, Switzerland - Lenin return to Geneva
May 16, 1908 - London - Lenin returns to London to work in the British Library
June 10, 1908 - London - Departs from London
December 1(?), 1908 - Paris - Lenin moves to Paris
May 18, 1909 - Paris - Letter to Rosa Luxemburg
July 19, 1909 - Paris - Letter to his mother
July 1, 1910 - Naples, Italy - Lenin arrives in Naples from Marseille. He visits the city, aswell as Pompeii, with Gorki
July 20(?), 1910 - Pornic, Brittany - Hollidays in Pornic, Brittany
July 28, 1910 - Pornic, Brittany - Letter to his sister Maria in Terijoki, Finland
August 27(?), 1910 - Germany - Lenin, coming from Paris, and Trotsky, coming from Vienna, end up at the same railway station awaiting a connection to Copenhagen. Lenin is furious with Trotsky because of his article on Russian Social Democracy for the newspaper of the german Social Democratic Party "Vorwärts"
August 28, 1910 - Copenhagen, Denmark - The Copenhagen International Socialist Congress begins
September 3, 1910 - Copenhagen - The Copenhagen International Socialist Congress ends
November 8, 1911 - London - Fifth visit to London
November 11, 1911 - London - Lecture on "Stolypin and the Revolution" at the New King's Hall
November 20, 1911 - London - Lenin departs from London
January 5, 1912 - Prague, Austria-Hungary - The 6th All-Russian Conference of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party begins
January 17, 1912 - Prague, Austria-Hungary - The 6th All-Russian Conference of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party ends
November(?) 1(?), 1912 - Kraków, Poland - Meeting with Stalin
December(?) 1(?), 1912 - Kraków - Second meeting with Stalin
January 1(?), 1913 - Kraków - Nadya's health begins to decline. After seeing one of the best neurologist it is discovered the was having thyroid trouble
May 1(?), 1913 - Biały Dunajec, Poland-Slovakia border - Lenin and Nadya travel to the Tatra Mountains so she could rest
July(?) 1(?), 1913 - Bern, Switzerland - Lenin and Nadya travel to Bern for Nadya to have a surgery on her goitre
July 10, 1913 - Bern - Nadya undergoes a thyroidectomy (without a general anesthetic) 
August 4, 1913 - Biały Dunajec, Poland-Slovakia border - Lenin and Nadya return to Biały Dunajec
October 6, 1913 - Biały Dunajec - Secret Meeting of the Central Committee of the Social Democratic Workers Party of Russia (bolsheviks) (until October 14th)
October 20(?), 1913 - Kraków - Lenin returns to Kraków two weeks later
January 30(?), 1914 - Paris - Lenin travels to Paris in the second half of January to "work in a library"
May 9, 1914 - Biały Dunajec, Poland-Slovakia border - Hiking to Zawrat Mountain Pass and Morskie Oko Lake with Roman Malinowksi
August 5, 1914 - Biały Dunajec - Lenin reads the paper and sees that the german social democrats had capitulated. He declares to Bagocki: "From today I cease to be a social democrat and have become a communist"
August 7, 1914 - Nowy Tag, Poland - Lenin is arrested
August 19, 1914 - Nowy Tag - Lenin leaves Nowy Targ after 12 days in jail
August 27, 1914 - Biały Dunajec - Lenin leaves Biały Dunajec
October 16, 1914 - Bern, Switzerland - Lenin and Nadya move to Bern
March 23, 1915 - Bremgarten, near Zurich - Lenin and Nadya receive the ashes of Nadya's mother, Elizaveta Vasil'evna, and buried them in the Bremgarten cemetery
June 1(?), 1915 - Sörenberg, Switzerland - Lenin, Nadya and Inessa Armand move to the Hotel Marienthal at Sörenberg, in sight of Mount Rothorn
September 2, 1915 - Sörenberg - Lenin and Inessa Armand leave Nadya at the hotel to travel to the Zimmerwald Conference
September 5, 1915 - Zimmerwald, Switzerland - Attends the Zimmerwald Conference (until September 9th)
February 1(?), 1916 - Zurich - Relocates to Zurich
April 24, 1916 - Kienthal, Switzerland - Attends the Kienthal Conference (until April 30th)
December 28, 1916 - Bern - Lenin takes a train to Bern
December 29, 1916 - Zurich - Returns to Zurich
January 22, 1917 - Zurich - Lecture on the 1905 Revolution
March 28, 1917 - Frankfurt, Germany - Lenin reaches Frankfurt by train, on his way from Geneva back to Russia
March 29, 1917 - Berlin - The train reaches Berlin
April 12, 1917 - Trelleborg | Malmö, Sweden - Lenin arrives in Trelleborg, Sweden. Then proceeds to Malmö
April 13, 1917 - Stockholm, Sweden - Lenin arrives in Stockholm from Germany, via Malmö
April 15, 1917 - Tornio, Finnish Lapland - Lenin passes Haparanda and crosses the Sweden-Finland(then Russia) border at Tornio

Lenin returns to Petrograd, 1917

April 16, 1917 - Petrograd - Lenin returns to Russia. Stalin welcomes him at Petrograd's Finland Station (Saint-Petersburg had been renamed Petrograd on September 1, 1914)
April 29, 1917 - Petrograd - Lenin comes first in the Bolshevik elections for the party's Central Committee
June 24, 1917 - Petrograd - Stalin threatens to resign when Lenin turns against the idea of an armed demonstration when the Soviet refused to support it
July 18, 1917 - Petrograd - Loyalist troops raid "Pravda" and surround the Bolshevik headquarters. Stalin helps Lenin evade capture minutes before and, to avoid a bloodbath, orders the besieged Bolsheviks in the Peter and Paul Fortress to surrender
October 10, 1917 - Petrograd - Lenin returns to Petrograd and at a meeting, secures a majority in favour of a coup
October 23, 1917 - Petrograd - The Central Committee voted 10-2 in favor of an insurrection; Kamenev and Zinoviev vote in opposition
October 25, 1917 - Petrograd - In the early hours of 25 October, Stalin joins Lenin in a Central Committee meeting in the Smolny Institute, from where the Bolshevik coup—the October Revolution—was being directed. Armed Bolshevik militia had seized Petrograd's electric power station, main post office, state bank, telephone exchange, and several bridges. A Bolshevik-controlled ship, the "Aurora", sails up to the Winter Palace, and opens fire, with the assembled delegates of the Provisional Government surrendering and being arrested by the Bolsheviks
October 26, 1917 - Petrograd - Lenin declares himself Chairman of a new government, the Council of People's Commissars (Sovnarkom)
November 15, 1917 - Petrograd - The Declaration of the Rights of the Peoples of Russia is promulgated by the Bolshevik government and signed by Lenin and Stalin
December 7, 1917 - Petrograd - Lenin's government forms the "Cheka", a political police force
December 15, 1917 - Petrograd - An armistice between Soviet Russia and the Central Powers is concluded
December 22, 1917 - While in Petrograd - Peace negotiations begin in Brest-Litovsk
February 10, 1918 - Petrograd - Lenin withraws from the talks, refusing to sign on Germany's harsh terms
February 18, 1918 - While in Petrograd - Germany resumes military operations against. Lenin is forced to send a radiogram accepting the final Brest-Litovsk peace terms. Trotsky abstains
March 3, 1918 - While in Petrograd - Treaty of Brest-Litovsk - End of Russia's participation in the War
March 10(?), 1918 - Moscow - Lenin moves the Soviet Government to the Kremlin in Moscow
May 1, 1918 - Moscow - Attends the May Day parade in Moscow
July 17, 1918 - While in Moscow - Former Tsar Nicholas II, Empress Alexandra and their 5 children: Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia and Alexei are brutally assassinated by bolsheviks in their captivity in Yekaterinburg
August 30, 1918 - Moscow - Lenin survives a second assassination attempt but is badly injured. One bullet strikes his arm and a second his jaw and neck
September 1(?), 1918 - Gorki - Moves to the Gorki estate, outside Moscow, acquired for him by the government
March 3, 1919 - Moscow - The 8th Congress of the Russian Communist Party begins in Moscow
March 23, 1919 - Moscow - The 8th Congress of the Russian Communist Party ends
May 5, 1920 - Moscow - At Sverdlov Square, Lenin, Trotsky and Kamenev motivate the

Lenin motivates the troops to fight
on the Soviet-Polish War, 1920

troops to fight on the Soviet-Polish War
March 8, 1921 - Moscow - The 10th Congress of the Russian Communist Party begins
March 16, 1921 - Moscow - The 10th Congress of the Russian Communist Party ends
March 1(?), 1922 - Gorki(?) - Physicians prescribe rest for Lenin's fatigue and headaches
March 27, 1922 - Moscow - The 11th Communist Party Congress begins
April 2, 1922 - Moscow - The 11th Communist Party Congress ends - Stalin is nominated as the party's new General Secretary
April 24, 1922 - Gorki(?) - A german surgeon removes the bullet retained in Lenin's neck after the 1918 assassination attempt
May 25, 1922 - Petrograd - After returning to Petrograd, Lenin suffers a massive stroke that leaves him partially paralysed and unable to speek for weeks
June 30(?), 1922 - Gorki(?) - By the end of June, Lenin recovers
August 1(?), 1922 - Gorki(?) - Resumes limited duties

Lenin and Stalin, Gorki, 1922

September 2, 1922 - Gorki - Lenin and Stalin are photographed by Maria Ulyanova at Lenin's dacha in Gorki
September 11, 1922 - Gorki(?) - Lenin proposes that Trotsky become his deputy at the Council of People's Commissars (Sovnarkom). The Politburo approves the proposal but Trotsky refuses
November 1(?), 1922 - Moscow(?) - Lenin delivers 3 long speeches in November
December 8, 1922 - Moscow - Lenin suffers a second stroke which partly paralyzes his right side. He withraws from active politics
December 30, 1922 - Gorki - While recovering at home, the First All-Union Congress of Soviets declares the creation of the Soviet Union
December 31, 1922 - Gorki - Unable to attend the congress, and not trusting Stalin to implement his thoughts, Lenin dictates a letter with his thoughts on the nationality question in a document to be passed on to the party leadership, titled "On the question of Nationalities or Autonomization". He attacks Stalin's policies on the subject and criticizes the rights provided to the republics by the Union treaty, deeming them inadequate to stop the rise of Great Russian nationalism, which he referred as "great-power chauvinism"

Lenin's embalmed body. Today

January 1(?), 1923 - Gorki - Amends his testament to suggest that Stalin should be removed as the party's general secretary
March 6, 1923 - Gorki - Lenin dictates a note of encouragement to georgian bolsheviks against Stalin
March 9, 1923 - Gorki - Lenin suffers a third stroke. He looses his ability to speak and is bedridden until his death
January 21, 1924 - Gorki - Lenin falls into a coma and dies, aged 53 =(END)

Leon Trotsky | Timeline

Leon Trotsky (born Lev Davidovich Bronstein; 7 November [O.S. 26 October] 1879 – 21 August 1940) was a Soviet revolutionary, Marxist theorist and politician whose particular strain of Marxist thought is known as Trotskyism.
Trotsky took part in the 1917 October Revolution, immediately becoming a leader within the Communist Party. He was one of the seven members of the first Politburo. He was a prominent figure in the early People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs and later as the founder and commander of the Red Army After the rise of Joseph Stalin, Trotsky was removed from his positions and eventually expelled from the Soviet Union in February 1929. He spent the rest of his life in exile, and was assassinated in 1940 in Mexico City by Ramón Mercader, a Soviet agent.
Trotsky's ideas developed the basis of Trotskyism, a prime school of Marxist thought that opposes the theories of Stalinism. He was written out of the history books under Stalin and was one of the few Soviet political personalities who was not rehabilitated by the Soviet administration under Nikita Khrushchev in the 1950s. (Intro from Wikipedia)

November 7, 1879 - Yanovka (today Bereslavka), Ukraine - Lev Davidovich Bronstein is born of a ukranian jewish family

September(?) 1(?), 1886(?) - Gromoklei - Lev enrolls in a yiddish-language school at the village of Gromoklei, aged 7

August(?) 1(?), 1887 - Yanovka - While spending Summer at Yanovska, his 28-year-old journalist cousin, Moishe Shpentser, convince Lev's father to let them bring Lev to their cramped house so he could attend school in Odessa

September(?) 1(?), 1888 - Odessa, Ukraine - Lev's rich parents decide to put him on the german-speaking "Realschule" in Odessa when he was 9

July 8, 1896 - Nikolayev (Mykolaiv, Ukraine) - Lev moves to Nikolayev to prepare for university entrance
August(?) 1(?), 1896 - Nikolayev - 17-year-old Lev Bronstein is introduced to Franz Shvigovskii, a key figure in a commune of revolutionaty youngsters. He is also introduced to the only woman of the commune, 22-year-old Aleksandra Sokolovskaya
October(?) 1(?), 1896 - Yanovka - Lev returns to his father's house as a "guest" after fainting in Nikolayev
November(?) 1(?), 1896 - Odessa, Ukraine - Lev goes to stay with an uncle in Odessa, to attend mathematics lectures at the University
December 1(?), 1896 - Nikolayev - Lev returns to the Nikolayev Commune, to politics and to the company of Aleksandra Sokolovskaya
January 1, 1897 - Nikolayev - New Year's party with Shvigovskii and Aleksandra
February 1(?), 1897 - Nikolayev - Lev helps organize the South Russian Workers' Union in Nikolayev. He begins writing revolutionary leaflets and proclamations, signing as "Lvov" =(START)
January 28, 1898 - Nikolayev - Lev is arrested with other 200 member of the Union
February 18(?), 1898 - Kherson - Lev is moved to Kherson prison after 3 weeks
March 1, 1898 - While in Kherson - The first congress of the Social Democratic party meets at Minsk
April(?) 1(?), 1898 - Odessa - Lev is moved to Odessa prison
November 1(?), 1899 - Moscow - After being sentenced to 4 years in exile in Siberia, Lev is held in a Moscow transit prison for 6 months. Marries Aleksandra Sokolovskaya in prison
October(?) 1(?), 1900 - Ust-Kut, Siberia - Lev Bronstein reaches his exile place in Ust-Kut, Siberia
November(?) 1(?), 1900 - While in Ust-Kut - In London, the newspaper "Iskra" (the spark) is founded
December 1, 1900 - While in Ust-Kut - The first edition of "Iskra" is published in Leipzig, Germany
March 27, 1901 - Ust-Kut, Siberia - Daughter Zinaida Volkova is born
January(?) 1(?), 1902 - Verkholensk - Daughter Nina is born
August(?) 1(?), 1902 - Verkholensk - With support from Aleksandra, Bronstein escapes from Siberia hidden in a load of hay on a wagon. Having stolen a passport in the name of "Leon Trotsky" (a former jailer in Odessa), it becomes his revolutionary pseudonym
August(?) 15(?), 1902 - Samara - Train stop at Samara. Through friends of Lenin, "Leon Trotsky" joins the Iskra organization under the name of "Pero"
September(?) 1(?), 1902 - Kharkov | Poltava | Kiev - Trotsky visits Kharkov, Poltava and Kiev to meet Iskra revolutionaries at the request of the Samara organization
October(?) 1(?), 1902 - Kiev - Reaches Kiev on his way to London
October(?) 5(?), 1902 - Brody - At Brody, a farmer takes Trotsky to the austrian border
October(?) 6(?), 1902 - Kamenetz-Podolsk - Trotsky crosses the Austrian border at Kamenetz-Podolsk
October(?) 8(?), 1902 - Vienna, Austria - Trotsky arrives in Vienna and manages to get the address of Victor Adler, the leader of the Austrian Social Democracy, and visit him
October(?) 12(?), 1902 - Zurich, Switzerland - Reaches Zurich on his way to London
October(?) 15(?), 1902 - Paris - Reaches Paris on his way to London
October 20(?), 1902 - London - Trotsky reaches London and goes straight to the house where Lenin was staying. He begins writing for "Iskra"
December(?) 1(?), 1902 - Paris - Lecture tour of Brussels, Liège and Paris. Meets Natalia Sedova in Paris
March 1(?), 1903 - Paris - Lenin decides that Trotsky should not return to Russia but stay abroad and be co-opted on the editorial board of "Iskra"
May 1(?), 1903 - Geneva, Switzerland - The editorial board of "Iskra" moves to Geneva. Trotsky was already living together with Natalia Sedova
July 30, 1903 - Brussels - First session of the 2nd congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP)
August 11, 1903 - London - The 2nd Congress of the RSDLP moves to London
August 24, 1903 - London - After the congress, Lenin leads a group of bolsheviks to Highgate Cemetery to visit the grave of Karl Marx
November 17, 1903 - London - The party splits into two irreconcilable factions: the bolsheviks, headed by Lenin, and the Mensheviks, headed by Julius Martov
December(?) 1(?), 1903 - Paris(?) - Trotsky marries Natalia Sedova
April 1(?), 1904 - Munich, Germany - Moves to Munich, Germany
September 1(?), 1904 - Munich - Trotsky leaves the mensheviks over their insistence on an alliance with russian liberals and their opposition to a reconciliation with Lenin and the Bolsheviks
January 3, 1905 - While in Geneva - A strike breaks out at the Putilov Works in Saint Petersburg
January 7, 1905 - While in Geneva - The strike in Saint Petersburg grows into a general strike with 140,000 strikers
January 9, 1905 - While in Geneva - Bloody Sunday - Father Georgi Gapon leads a peaceful procession of citizens through the streets to the Winter Palace to beseech the Tsar for food and relief from the oppressive government. The Palace Guard fires on the peaceful demonstration, resulting in the deaths of some 1,000 demonstrators
January 10, 1905 - Geneva - Trotsky learns about the Bloody Sunday
January 23, 1905 - Geneva - Returns to Geneva from a lecture tour
February 17, 1905 - Vienna, Austria - Trotsky learns about Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich's assassination
February 20(?), 1905 - Kiev - Following the events of Bloody Sunday, Trotsky returns to Russia in secret, via Kiev
March(?) 1(?), 1905 - Saint-Petersburg - Trotsky returns to Saint-Petersburg with a passport of a landowner named Vikentiev
May 1, 1905 - Saint-Petersburg - Natalia Sedova is arrested. Trotsky goes into hiding
July(?) 1(?), 1905 - Rauha, Finland - Flees to Finland from Saint-Petersburg
August 6, 1905 - Saint-Petersburg - In Saint-Petersburg when the Tsar offers his opponents the right to summon a purely consultative "parliamentary" assembly
September 19, 1905 - While in Rauha - The typesetters at the Ivan Sytin's printing house in Moscow go out on strike for shorter hours and higher pay
September 24, 1905 - While in Rauha - By the evening of 24 September, the workers at 50 other printing shops in Moscow are also on strike
October 7, 1905 - While in Rauha - The railway workers of the Moscow–Kazan Railway go out on strike
October 14, 1905 - Saint-Petersburg - Attends a meeting of the Saint-Petersburg Soviet
October 15, 1905 - Saint-Petersburg - Speaks before the Saint Petersburg Soviet Council of Workers Deputies, which was meeting at the Technological Institute in the city. Also attending were some 200,000 people crowded outside to hear the speeches—about half of all workers in Saint Petersburg
November 13, 1905 - Saint-Petersburg - In alliance with the mensheviks, Trotsky starts the newspaper "Nachalo" (the Beginning)
December 3, 1905 - Saint-Petersburg - Trotsky is arrested

Trotsky. Police mugshot, 1905

February 24, 1906 - Saint-Petersburg - Son Lev Sedov is born
September 19, 1906 - Saint-Petersburg - The trial of the Soviet of Workers' delegated begins
October 4, 1906 - Saint-Petersburg - He is convicted and sentenced to exile in the village of Obdorsk, within the Arctic circle
January 3, 1907 - Saint-Petersburg - Letter to Natalia Sedova from transfer prison
January 11, 1907 - on his way to Obdorsk, via Tyuman - Letter to Natalia Sedova on his way to Obdorsk
February 10(?), 1907 - Tobolsk - Trotsky reaches Tyuman by train. The group then reaches Tobolsk on horseback. 
February 12, 1907 - Berezovka, NNE of Tobolsk - The 14 prisoners and their 52 guards reach Berezovka after a journey of 33 days
February 17, 1907 - Berezovka, NNE of Tobolsk - Trotsky escapes while en route to exile in Obdorsk, Siberia
February 24(?), 1907 - Ural Mountains - With the help of local zyryan people, Trotsky makes 700km to the Ural Mountains in a week
February 25(?), 1907 - Perm - Trotsky reaches Perm and telegraphs to Natalia in Terioki, Finland. He then boards a train heading west in safety
February 28(?), 1907 - Saint-Petersburg - Trotsky reaches Saint-Petersburg in just 11 days
March(?) 10(?), 1907 - near Helsinki, Finland - Trotsky moves with Natalia and their youngest child to the safety of Finland
May 13, 1907 - London - Attends the 5th Congress of the RSDLP (until June 1st)
October 1(?), 1907 - Vienna, Austria - Moves to Vienna
March 21, 1908 - While in Vienna - Son Sergei Sedov is born
October 1(?), 1908 - Vienna - Trotsky is asked to join the editorial staff of the russian-language social democrat newspaper "Pravda" (truth)
January 3, 1909 - Vienna - Publication of the article "The Young Turks" on "Kievskaya Mysl"
August 27(?), 1910 - Germany - Lenin, coming from Paris, and Trotsky, coming from Vienna, end up at the same railway station awaiting a connection to Copenhagen. Lenin is furious with Trotsky because of his article on Russian Social Democracy for the newspaper of the german Social Democratic Party "Vorwärts"
August 28, 1910 - Copenhagen, Denmark - The Copenhagen International Socialist Congress begins
September 3, 1910 - Copenhagen - The Copenhagen International Socialist Congress ends
August 20, 1911 - Berne, Switzerland - The Conference of the Foreign Bureau of the Central Committee begins
August 23, 1911 - Berne - The Conference of the Foreign Bureau of the Central Committee ends
September 1(?), 1911 - Jena, Germany - Social Democratic congress at Jena
August 1(?), 1912 - Vienna, Austria - Trotsky organizes a "unification" conference of russian social democratic factions in Vienna
September 30(?), 1912 - Belgrade, Serbia - Newspaper "Kievskaya Mysl" sends him to the Balkans as its war correspondent
October 6, 1912 - Sofia, Bulgaria - Trotsky arrives in Sofia
September 1(?), 1913 - Black Sea Coast - Trotsky tours the Black Sea Coast, describing the life of isolated communities of russian religious sects that had settled in the region
January 1(?), 1914 - Vienna, Austria - Trotsky is visited by Duma deputies Skobelev and N.S.Chkheidze
July 19, 1914 - While in Vienna - Germany declares war on Russia
August 3, 1914 - Vienna - Trotsky is forced to flee Vienna for neutral Switzerland to avoid arrest as a russian émigré (Austria-Hungary fought against the Russian Empire)
August 10(?), 1914 - Zurich, Switzerland - Moves to Zurich
November 19, 1914 - Paris - Moves to Paris as correspondent for the "Kievskaya Mysl"
January 29, 1915 - Paris - Trotsky begins editing "Nashe Slovo" (Our Word), an internationalist socialist newspaper
September 5, 1915 - Zimmerwald, Switzerland - Attends the Zimmerwald Conference (until September 9th)
July 4, 1916 - Paris - Publishes the article "On the Events in Dublin" for "Nashe Slovo"
October 30, 1916 - Irun, Spanish-french border - Trotsky is deported to Spain for his anti-war activities
October 31, 1916 - San Sebastian - Spends a night in San Sebastian
November 1, 1916 - Madrid - Arrives in Madrid
November 12, 1916 - Madrid - Trotsky is released but put on a train to Cádiz to abandon Spain
November 13, 1916 - Cádiz - Arrives in Cádiz by train
November 30, 1916 - Cádiz - Natalia Sedova and the children doesn't arrive in time and they miss the steamer to New York
December 21, 1916 - Madrid - Spends a day in Madrid while travelling by train between Cádiz and Barcelona
December 28, 1916 - Barcelona - Sails to the United States on board the steamer "Montserrat"
January 14, 1917 - New York, United States - Trotsky arrives in New York on board the steamer "Montserrat"
March 27, 1917 - New York - Trotsky departs from the United States aboard the "SS Kristianiafjord"
March 29, 1917 - Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada - "SS Kristianiafjord" is intercepted by british naval officials
April 3, 1917 - Amherst Internment Camp, Nova Scotia - Trotsky is imprisoned at Amherst Internment Camp in Nova Scotia
April 29, 1917 - Amherst Internment Camp, Nova Scotia - The british government releases him
May 3, 1917 - Halifax - Trotsky sails from Halifax on board the danish ship "Helig Olav"
May 17, 1917 - Petrograd - Returns to Petrograd (Saint-Petersburg was renamed in September 1st, 1914)
June 16, 1917 - Petrograd - Elected a member of the first All-Russian Central Executive Committee at the First Congress of Soviets (until July7th) from the Mezhraiontsy faction
August 7, 1917 - Petrograd - Trotsky is arrested after an unsuccessful pro-bolshevik uprising in Petrograd (Saint-Petersburg)
September 17(?), 1917 - Petrograd - Released from prison after 40 days
September 25, 1917 - Petrograd - Trotsky is elected chairman of the Petrograd Soviet after the bolsheviks gain a majority
October 25, 1917 - Petrograd - In the early hours of 25 October, Stalin joins Lenin in a Central Committee meeting in the Smolny Institute, from where the Bolshevik coup—the October Revolution—was being directed. Armed Bolshevik militia had seized Petrograd's electric power station, main post office, state bank, telephone exchange, and several bridges. A Bolshevik-controlled ship, the "Aurora", sails up to the Winter Palace, and opens fire, with the assembled delegates of the Provisional Government surrendering and being arrested by the Bolsheviks
October 26, 1917 - Petrograd - The Second All Russian Congress of Soviet holds its opening session - Trotsky dismissed the opposing Mensheviks and the Socialist Revolutionaries from Congress
December 22, 1917 - Brest-Litovsk, Belarus - Trotsky leads the soviet delegation during the peace negotiations in Brest-Litovsk

Trotsky addressing the Red Guards, 1918

January 7, 1918 - Petrograd - Trotsky returns from Brest-Litovsk with an ultimatum from the Central Powers: either Russia accept Germany's territorial demands or the war would resume
February 18, 1918 - While in Petrograd - Germany resumes military operations against. Lenin is forced to send a radiogram accepting the final Brest-Litovsk peace terms. Trotsky abstains
March 13, 1918 - Petrograd - Trotsky resigns as Commissar for Foreign Affairs. He is appointed People's Commissar of Army and Navy affairs, and chairman of the Supreme Military Council. Trotsky gains control of the Red Army
August 17, 1918 - Petrograd - In response to the failed assassination of Lenin on August 30th and the assassination of the Petrograd Cheka Moisei Uritsky on August 17th, the bolsheviks instruct Felix Dzerzhinsky to commence the "Red Terror". Trotsky writes on the "Red Gazette": "The bourgeoisie today is a falling class... We are forced to tear it off, to chop it away. The Red Terror is a weapon utilized against a class, doomed to destruction, which does not wish to perish. If the White Terror can only retard the historical rise of the proletariat, the Red Terror hastens the destruction of the bourgeoisie"
January 1(?), 1919 - Kronstadt - Visit to Kronstadt, following a disastrous naval attack on Tallinn
March 18, 1919 - Moscow - The 8th Congress of the Russian Communist Party begins in Moscow
March 23, 1919 - Moscow - The 8th Congress of the Russian Communist Party ends
July 3, 1919 - Moscow(?) - During a Central Committee meeting, the majority disagrees with Trotsky's plan to capture Siberia before the winter so that more divisions could be freed up for the Southern Front
July 5, 1919 - Moscow(?) - Trotsky offers his resignation. The Politburo and the Central Committee unanimously reject it
October 1(?), 1919 - Petrograd - Trotsky departs to Petrograd with support of Stalin and Zinoviev (who prevailed against Lenin in the Central Committee). He believed that Petrograd shouldn't be abandoned to defend Moscow
October 22, 1919 - Petrograd - The Red Army resumes the offensive under Trotsky
November 5(?), 1919 - Petrograd - General Nikolay Yudenich's troops are driven back to Estonia, where they are disarmed and interned. Trotsky is awarded the Order of the Red Banner for his actions
December(?) 1(?), 1919 - Urals - Trotsky spends the Winter in the Urals Region, trying to restart its economy
May 5, 1920 - Moscow - At Sverdlov Square, Lenin, Trotsky and Kamenev motivate the troops to fight on the Soviet-Polish War
September 22, 1920 - Moscow - Trotsky arrives in Petrograd from Siberia. He presents an ultimatum to the rebels in Kronstadt
March 5, 1921 - Petrograd - Trotsky arrives in Petrograd from Siberia. He presents an ultimatum to the rebels in Kronstadt
March 7, 1921 - While in Petrograd - Military operations begin against the Island of Kronstadt
March 8, 1921 - Moscow - The 10th Congress of the Russian Communist Party begins
March 16, 1921 - Moscow - The 10th Congress of the Russian Communist Party ends
September 11, 1922 - Moscow - Lenin proposes that Trotsky become his deputy at the Council of People's Commissars (Sovnarkom). The Politburo approves the proposal but Trotsky refuses
April 11, 1923 - Moscow - The 12th Congress of the Russian Communist Party begins
April 25, 1923 - Moscow - The 12th Congress of the Russian Communist Party ends
January 16, 1924 - Moscow - The 13th Party Conference begins
January 18, 1924 - Moscow - The 13th Party Conference ends
January 21, 1924 - On the way to the Caucasus - Trotsky learns about Lenin's death on his way to a Caucasian resort to recover from his prolonged illness
January 27, 1924 - While on his way back to Moscow - Lenin's funeral. His body is carried to the Red Square. Stalin is one of the pallbearers
May 23, 1924 - Moscow - The 13th Communist Party Congress begins - Lenin's political testament is read
May 31, 1924 - Moscow - The 13th Communist Party Congress ends - Embarrassed by its contents, Stalin offers his resignation as General Secretary; this act of humility saves him and he is retained in the position
November 7, 1924 - Moscow - Attends the October Revolution Parede on the Red Square
January 6, 1925 - Moscow - Trotsky is forced to resign as People's Commissar of Army and Fleet Affairs and Chairman of the Revolutionary Military Council. Zinoviev demands his expulsion from the Communist Party but Stalin refuses
May 1(?), 1925 - Moscow - Trotsky is given the posts of Chairman of the Concessions Committee, Head of the Eletrotechnical board, and Chairman of the scientific-technical board of Industry
July 30, 1926 - Moscow - Trotsky and Stalin bear the coffin of Felix Dzerzhinsky
October 1(?), 1926 - Moscow - 15th Party Conference - Trotsky can barely speak because of interruptions and catcalls. He looses his Politburo seat
October 1(?), 1927 - Moscow - Zinoviev and Trotsky are removed from the Central Committee
November 12, 1927 - Moscow - Zinoviev and Trotsky are expelled from the Communist Party
November 16, 1927 - Moscow - Soviet diplomat Adolph Joffe commits suicide. Trotsky gives the eulogy at his funeral
January 31, 1928 - Alma Ata, Kazakhstan - Trotsky is exiled to Alma Ata, Kazakhstan
February 1(?), 1929 - Istanbul, Turkey - Trotsky is expelled from the Soviet Union to Turkey, accompanied by his wife Natalia Sedova and their eldest son, Lev
April 1(?), 1929 - Büyükada Island - Trotsky and Natalia Sedova are moved to the Island of Büyükada
November 14, 1932 - Istanbul - Trotsky departs to Denmark aboard the "SS Praga", via Naples and Marseille
November 19(?), 1932 - Naples, Italy - Trotsky arrives in Naples. Short sightseeing trip to Pompeii and Sorrento
November 21, 1932 - Marseille, France - Trotsky arrives in Marseille. Travels by train to Dunkirk
November 22, 1932 - Dunkirk - Trotsky boards a ship to Denmark
November 23, 1932 - Esbjerg, Denmark - Trotsky arrives in Denmark
November 27, 1932 - Copenhagen, Denmark - Speech in Copenhagen to an audience of 2,500 people
December 8, 1932 - Brindisi, Italy - Press statement
December 11, 1932 - Istanbul - Trotsky returns to Turkey. Press Statement
July 1(?), 1933 - Royan, France - Trotsky is offered exile in France by Prime Minister Édouard Daladier. Trotsky accepts the offer but is forbidden to live in Paris
February 1(?), 1934 - Barbizon, France - Following the 6 February 1934 Crisis in France, the authorities instruct Trotsky to move to a residence in the tiny village of Barbizon
May 2, 1935 - Barbizon - France and the Soviet Union conclude the Franco-Soviet Treaty of Mutual Assistence. Trotsky is officially informed that he has to abandon France
June 18, 1935 - Norderhov, near Hønefoss, Norway - Trotsky and wife become guests of Konrad Knudsen, editor of a working class paper, at Norderhov, near Hønefoss, Norway
September 19, 1935 - Oslo, Norway - Hospitalized for a few weeks
August 5, 1936 - Norderhov, near Hønefoss - Knudsen's house is burgled by fascists while he and Trotsky were out on a seashore trip. Trotsky sends the first copies of the finished manuscript "The Revolution Betrayed" to the american and french translators
August 14, 1936 - While in Norderhov - The Soviet Press Agency TASS announces the discovery of a "Trotskyist-Zinovievist" plot and the imminent start of the Trial of the 16 accused
August 26, 1936 - Norderhov, near Hønefoss - Norwegian policemen arrive at Knudsen's house demanding that Trotsky sign new conditions for residing in Norway
September 2, 1936 - Hurum, Norway - Prime-Minister Trygve Lie orders that Trotsky and his wife be transfered to a farm in Hurum, under house arrest
December 18, 1936 - Hurum - Trotsky manages to smuggle a letter titled "The Moscow Confessions"
December 19, 1936 - Oslo - Trotsky and his wife are deported from Norway and depart to Mexico on board the norwegian freighter "Ruth"
December 27, 1936 - Off Azores Islands - The "Ruth" passes the Azores Islands
January 9, 1937 - Tampico, Mexico - Leon Trotsky and Natalia Sedova arrive in Mexico at Tampico. Frida Kahlo is waiting for them on the dock

Frida Kahlo and Trotsky

January 15(?), 1937 - Coyoacán, Mexico City - Trotsky and Natalia Sedova are offered the "La Casa Azul" (Blue House) as a residence. Frida Kahlo begins an affair with him
April 1(?), 1937 - Coyoacán - Diego Rivera and Trotsky set up a Joint Commission of Inquiry into the Moscow Trials. it is chaired by the philosopher John Dewey. This Commission clears Trotsky of the accusation brought against him by Stalin
July 7, 1937 - 80 miles from Mexico City - Trotsky and his party move to a hacienda 80 miles from Mexico City due to security concerns. End of the affair with Frida Kahlo
July 27, 1937 - Coyoacán - Returns to the "La Casa Azul"
April 15, 1938 - Coyoacán - Letter to James Cannon
July 25, 1938 - Coyoacán - André Breton, Rivera and Trotsky tour Mexico and together write "A Manifesto for a Free Revolutionary Art" (signed by Breton and Rivera, but likely co-authored by Trotsky). Frida Kahlo travels to New York and Paris where some of her paintings were being exhibited for the first time
October 30, 1938 - Coyoacán - Letter to James Cannon
November 1(?), 1938 - Coyoacán - Rivera and Frida Kahlo protest against the government, calling for a demonstration against the "vandalism of the authorities" (Their friend Juan O'Gorman had painted murals at the Mexican international airport, including caricatures of Hitler and Mussolini. Because of the Anglo-US boycott of Mexican oil, the government had been forced to sell to the Axis powers. General Mujica ordered that the murals be destroyed). Trotsky condemns Rivera's position. Rivera resigns from Trotsky's Fourth International
January 12, 1939 - Coyoacán - Letter to Frida Kahlo
March 27, 1939 - Coyoacán - Letter to James Cannon, condemning Diego Rivera's position
April 1(?), 1939 - Coyoacán - Rivera quarrels with Trotsky after finding out about his affair with Frida Kahlo. Trotsky and Natalia Sedova leave the "La Casa Azul"
June 12, 1939 - Coyoacán - Letter to Diego Rivera
February 27, 1940 - Coyoacán - Trotsky writes his "Political Testament"
May 24, 1940 - Coyoacán - A gang from the Communist Party of Mexico attacks Trotsky's home. They machine gun Trotsky's bedroom but fail to hit him. That gang was led by the Mexican artist David Alfaro Siqueiros
June 8, 1940 - Coyoacán - Trotsky writes the article "Stalin seeks my Death"
August 20, 1940 - Coyoacán - Leon Trotsky is attacked in his study by Ramón Mercader, who fails to kill him using an ice axe. His bodyguards save him and take him to hospital
August 21, 1940 - Coyoacán - Leon Trotsky dies of exsanguination and shock, aged 60 =(END)