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| 1905 |
| | | The first soviet ("council") of workers is set up in St Petersburg, introducing a word of great significance in Russian Communist history | |
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| 1916 |
| | | Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg found the radical Spartacus League, named after the gladiator | |
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| 1916 |
| | | The rebel leader Patrick Pearse stands under the portico of Dublin's General Post Office to announce the birth of the Irish republic | |
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| 1916 |
| | | Roger Casement is arrested after returning secretly to Ireland three days before the Easter Rising | |
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| 1916 |
| | | Patrick Pearse and his fellow Irish rebel James Connolly are executed by firing squad | |
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| 1917 March 10 |
| | | A mutiny by soldiers, in support of Petrograd demonstrators, proves a turning point in Russia's February revolution | |
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| 1917 March 11 |
| | | Crowds demonstrating in Petrograd are fired on after tsar Nicholas II sanctions the use of force | |
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| 1917 March 12 |
| | | An uprising in Petrograd brings the Peter and Paul fortress into the hands of the rebels | |
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| 1917 April |
| | | Lenin expounds in Petrograd the new theory of his April Theses, predicting the possibility of imminent revolution | |
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| 1917 April |
| | | Trotsky hurries back to Russia from exile in the United States | |
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