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3rd March 1861: Tsar Alexander II signs the Emancipation Manifesto

3rd March 2023
Tagged as: Alexander II, Emancipation, Russia, Serfdom, Tsar

Tsar Alexander II of Russia signed the Emancipation Manifesto.

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13th March 1881: Tsar Alexander II of Russia assassinated in a St Petersburg street by a member of the People’s Will revolutionary movement

13th March 2022
Tagged as: Alexander II, Assassination, Autocracy, Democracy, Revoluion, Russia

Suffering from severe bleeding, the Tsar was taken to the Winter Palace where he died from his wounds.

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13th March 1881: Tsar Alexander II assassinated in Saint Petersburg

13th March 2020
Tagged as: Alexander II, Assassination, Government, Politics, Russia, Saint Petersburg, Terrorism, Tsar

On the 13^th March 1881, Tsar Alexander II of Russia was assassinated in a St Petersburg street by a member of the People’s Will revolutionary movement.

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3rd March 1861: Tsar Alexander II signs the Emancipation Manifesto

13th March 1881: Tsar Alexander II of Russia assassinated in a St Petersburg street by a member of the People’s Will revolutionary movement

13th March 1881: Tsar Alexander II assassinated in Saint Petersburg

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21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow

HistoryPod Extra: The Myth of Gavrilo Princip’s Sandwich

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

2nd August 1934: Hitler becomes Führer after President Hindenburg dies

19th September 1870: The Siege of Paris began during the Franco-Prussian War when the city was encircled by forces of the North German Confederation

18th September 1812: The Fire of Moscow burnt out five days after it began, leaving Napoleon in possession of the city

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16th September 1920: 38 people died in the Wall Street bombing in New York

28th June 1914 & 1919: Trigger and end of the First World War

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

8th July 1932: Dow Jones falls to lowest point in the Great Depression

9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall

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