Trotsky had been a key figure in the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917.
20th July 1807: The world’s first internal combustion engine is patented in France
20th July 2019
On the 7th November 1917, Red Guards entered the Winter Palace in St Petersburg in a defining event of the Bolshevik Revolution.
In the early hours of the 17th July 1918 the Russian Imperial Romanov family were shot dead in the basement of the Ipatiev House in the Russian city of Ekaterinburg.
On the 30th December 1922, the USSR – the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics – was founded.
The Russian Social Democratic Labour Party split into the Bolshevik and Menshevik factions.
On the 30th August 1918, Bolshevik leader Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov – better known as Lenin – was the victim of a failed assassination plot.
Vladimir Lenin arrived in Russia after a decade of self-imposed exile.
24th January 41 CE: Emperor Caligula killed by the Praetorian Guard
24th January 2020
22nd January 1905: Bloody Sunday massacre in Saint Petersburg
22nd January 2020
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2018
1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland
1st September 2018