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| 1917 July 17 |
| | | An armed uprising in Petrograd disperses after Lenin declines to give support | |
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| 1917 July |
| | | Trotsky is imprisoned and Lenin flees to Finland as Russia's Provisional Government cracks down on the Bolsheviks | |
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| 1917 September |
| | | Trotsky, released from prison, stages a coup to win Bolshevik control of the Petrograd Soviet | |
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| 1917 October |
| | | Lenin, in disguise, returns from Finland to Petrograd, where he hides in the flat of a party worker | |
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| 1917 October 23 |
| | | Lenin persuades the Bolshevik central committee to vote for an armed insurrection | |
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| 1917 November 3 |
| | | The soldiers of the Petrograd garrison mutiny on being ordered to the front | |
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| 1917 November 5 |
| | | The Peter and Paul fortress is taken, giving the Bolsheviks control of Petrograd | |
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| 1917 November 7 |
| | | Bolsheviks storm the Winter Palace in Petrograd and arrest the ministers of the Provisional Government | |
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| 1918 |
| | | The British viceroy in Dublin imprisons 73 Sinn Fein leaders, including Eamon de Valera, on allegations of a German plot | |
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| 1918 November 9 |
| | | The Spartacus League proclaims a rival German republic on soviet lines | |
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