Greater Russia

POD- March 13 1881- Terrorists are arrested En route to assassinating Alexander II. The day passes uneventfully.

1881

 * April 6- Alexander opens a Duma, or Parliament. He later commissions them with writing a Constitution.


 * April 9- Alexander visits President Garfield in a formal visit at Washington. The USA agrees to help Russia modernize in return for zero tariffs on Russian oil.


 * May 9- The Constitution of Russia is complete. It is passed in a referendum by a margin of 33%.


 * Russia begins a series of "sessions of economic reforms" which would help modernize it. The first session of reforms deals with industrialization, the Second one deals with the Military.  His court would summon scientists like Nikola Tesla and Dimitry Mendeleev, various industrialists including JD Rockefeller and Economists from the Austrian school of Economics to assist Russia.

1882

 * parliamentary elections begin. Alexander Lenin's Social Democratic Labour party (known informally as Bolsheviks, or Whigs) wins a majority in the Duma, with the crown party (or Tories) being the opposition.

1883

 * the SDLP try to pass legislation which calls for the nationalization of the oil industry, but it is struck down by the Russian constitutional court due to treaty obligations.

1884

 * President Arthur appears before Alexander's court with an arms deal (two American frigates in exchange for a US naval base in Russian Manchuria)

1888

 * Russia's first session of economic reforms is complete.
 * a very serious pogrom occurs in Ukraine which kills 3000 Jews. One of them is Leon Trotsky, which gets his father to press murder charges against the participants of the pogrom.
 * After a very high profile murder trial (with Russian newspapers especially Pravda covering every moment of it), three men are convicted and sentenced to hang.

1890

 * Lenin attempts to get a bill passed banning pogroms and racial segregation, but it is defeated at the crown party held upper Duma.

1891

 * elections are held again. this time there are two new parties: the Labour Party (much more left wing than SDLP) and the green party (which is centre right)

1898

 * The Pacific war breaks out between Spain and America/Russia. The treaty of Tokyo would cede the Philippines to Russia and most of Spain's Caribbean territories to America.

1901

 * William McKinley is killed by an anarchist. The Tsar Alexander III sends his condolences.
 * President Roosevelt signs the treaty of Vladivostok, cementing the Russian-American alliance. The treaty enumerates mutual economic co-operation, promises to defend each other if one is attacked and a promise to stay out of European conflicts.

1903

 * the Wright brothers make the first powered flight in history. President Roosevelt's Secret Service would take the brothers to the US army base in Nevada where they would construct more advanced models of planes.

1904

 * Russia goes to war with japan. America doesn't send military forces, but defends it by sending arms and funds.

1905

 * Russia by this stage is moving down to Korea and has captured Seoul. The emperor has decided to start negotiations.
 * at the treaty of Moscow, Russia would get Manchuria. This forces Japan to expand its empire through mainland China.

1906

 * the Von Schlieffen Plan is abandoned because of Russia's neutrality in Europe.

1908

 * Theodore Roosevelt wins an unprecedented 3rd term.
 * Tsar Alexander III dies. His eldest son Nicholas declines the throne so it passes to his brother, Michael.
 * a mysterious explosion occurs in Siberia, which is a mystery to the present day.

1914

 * A Serbian terrorist kills the Archduke of Austria Hungary and his wife
 * Austria declares war on Serbia, but France goes to war at the same time with Russia being absent.

1915

 * Germany wins at the Somme due to there being no eastern front and the Von Schleiffen Plan being abandoned as a result.