Timeline+of+Events

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 * **9th January**
 * o 150 000 workers joined a demonstration to commemorate Bloody Sunday
 * **18th February**
 * o Strike began at Putilov Works
 * **19th February**
 * o Bread rationing introduced by Government
 * **23rd February**
 * o International Women’s Day Demonstrations
 * § Joined by the Putilov Workers
 * They wanted bread
 * **25th February**
 * o General strike spreads through Petrograd
 * o Troops fire on demonstrators
 * **26th February**
 * o Tsar asks Duma to disband, they refuse
 * o Troops join the demonstrators
 * **27th February**
 * o Revolution
 * § Aimed to overthrow the Government
 * § Winter Palace and Government buildings were seized
 * o Petrograd Soviet was up
 * o Provisional Duma Committee was set up
 * **1st March**
 * o Soviet Order #1
 * § All authority claimed over Russian troops
 * **2nd March**
 * o Tsar Nicholas II abdicates from the throne
 * o Provisional Government was set up