Timeline (Alexander the Liberator)

This is the timeline of events within the Alexander the Liberator timeline starting from the Point of Divergence.

1881

 * 13 March: While on route to a military roll call at the Mikhailovsky Manège, Russian Emperor Alexander II becomes a victims of a failed assassination attempt by the socialist terrorist organization known as the Narodnaya Volya.
 * Late March: Those responisble for nearly killing the Emperor are arrested and executed.

1882

 * 25 June: Emperor Alexander begins enacting parliamentary reforms.

1886

 * 13 November: Sergei Witte is elected as the first Prime Minister of Russia.
 * 25 December: Witte orders the construction of the Trans-Siberian Railway.

1887

 * 7 July: Prince Ferdinand of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha-Koháry is elected as Prince of the Third Bulgarian state.
 * 14 August: Witte invites British businessmen on advice to increase industrialisation.
 * 29 September: Witte creates new "commercial" schools.

1893

 * 18 April: Russia along with an anti-Turkish alliance in the Balkans declare war on the Ottoman Empire following an incident where Ottoman ships fired at a Russian merchant vessel.
 * 8 June: Bulgarian and Romanian troops repel the overwhelming Ottoman Army.
 * 16 June: The Imperial Russian Army invades the Ottoman Empire through the east.
 * 8 July: The Anti-Turkish Alliance bombards Constantinople, beginning the Siege of Constantinople.
 * 15 July: The Ottoman Army launches a failed counter-attack by invading Crete.
 * 28 August: The Ottoman Army is repelled from Crete.