Romanov Important Dates and Timeline

Here is an ever-expanding list of important dates, and a timeline. It should be noted that dates, when possible, are given in both old style (Julian Calendar) and new style (Gregorian Calendar). The difference was 12 days in the 19th century, broadening to 13 in the 20th century. The Russian Orthodox church continued to use the old calendar, although Russia officially switched to the new calendar in February of 1918.

Chronology

1868
6/18 May - Nikolai is born.

1872
25 May/6 June - Princess of Alix of Hesse-Darmstadt is born.

1881
1 March - Aleksandr II is assassinated.

1884
Grand Duke Sergei and Ella (Alix's sister) marry; Nikolai and Alix first meet.

1894
Nikolai proposes to Alix.

20 October/1 November - Aleksandr III dies; Nikolai becomes Tsar

22 October/3 November - Aleksandra is chrismated into Orthodoxy

14/26 November - Nikolai and Aleksandra are married.

1895
3/15 November - Olga Nikolaievna is born at the Alexander Palace, Tsarskoe Selo.

1896
14/26 May - Nikolai II's coronation in Moskva.

1897
29 May/10 June - Tatiana Nikolaievna is born at Peterhof.

1899
14/26 June - Maria Nikolaievna is born at the lower palace/Alexandria Dacha at Peterhof.
June - Nikolai's brother, the Tsarevich Georgy, dies from tuberculosis.

1900
October - Nikolai contracts typhoid at Livadia.

1901
9/22 January - Queen Victoria, Alix's grandmother, dies.
5/18 June - Anastasia Nikolaievna is born at Peterhof.

1902
Sergei and Ella become guardians of Maria Pavlovna (the Younger) and Dmitri Pavlovich, as their father, Grand Duke Pavel Aleksandrovich, marries a commoner/divorcee named Olga A. Karnovich von Pistolkors in Livorno, Italy (October 10 NS) against the express wishes of the Tsar. Pavel and Olga take up official residence in Paris. Their exile is officially reversed in 1912.

1903
January 22/February 4 - Nikolai and Aleksandra host the famous 17th century imperial ball at the Winter Palace.

1904
30 July/12 August - Aleksei Nikoliaevich is born.

1905

9/22 January - On "Bloody Sunday," troops open fire on workers as they attempt to reach the Winter Palace.

Duma established (begins session the following year).

Pierre Gilliard becomes a palace tutor.

4/17 February - Grand Duke Sergei is assassinated by Ivan Kalyaev.

1/14 November - Nikolai and Alix meet Rasputin.

1911
New Livadia Palace, designed by the architecht Krasnov, is completed.

1/14 September - Prime Minister Pyoter Stolypin is shot while attending a performance of the Kiev Opera, sitting in the Royal Box with Nikolai and the Big Pair present. He dies four days later.

3/16 November - Olga Nikolaievna's 16th birthday festivities at Livadia. The revelries include a supper and ball, which is attended by all of Nikolai's and Aleksandra's children. According to firsthand account, Tatiana is allowed to wear her hair up for the ball.

1912
June - While cruising the Baltic, NAOTMAA meet Kaiser Wilhelm.

August-October - The Tsarevich has an accident while the family stays at Skernevizi in Poland.

A bumpy carriage ride seems to exacerbate his injuries, and he hemmorhages. He is abruptly moved to the lodge at Spala for care. He reinjures himself with a fall at the end of September.

The Imperial Entourage returns to Tsarskoe Selo at the end of October.

16/29 October - The Tsar's brother, Grand Duke Mikhail Alexandrovich, marries his mistress, Natalya Wulfert, in secret in Vienna at St. Savva Serbian Orthodox Church. The Grand Duke had been exiled and stripped of his role as state regent for Tsarevich Alexei in September.

1913

The Romanov Tercentenary; Tatiana Nikolaievna contracts Typhoid in St. Petersburg; Irina Aleksandrovna becomes engaged to Felix Yussupov.

1914

9/22 February - Irina and Felix are married.

19 July/1 August - Germany declares war on Russia.

1915

2/15 January - Anya Virubova is seriously injured in a train accident.

1916

17/30 December - Felix Yussupov and Dmitri Pavlovich murder Rasputin.

1917

22 February/7 March - Nikolai returns to Mogilev from Tsarskoe Selo.
23 February/8 March - There are strikes in St. Petersburg (Petrograd since 1914) on

International Women's Day.

28 February/13 March - Nikolai II goes to Pskov when he can't get through to Tsarskoe Selo.
2/15 March - Nikolai abdicates for himself and for the Tsarevich.
3/16 March - Nikolai's brother Mikhail refuses the throne.
7/20 March - Nikolai's family is placed under house arrest at the Alexander Palace.
1/14 August - The imperial family is moved to Tobolsk in Siberia, via train and steamship (Rus).
6/19 August - The family arrives in Tobolsk and is moved into the governor's house.
1/14 Septemper - Vasily Pankratov is put in charge of the imperial family in Tobolsk.
25 October/7 November - Bolsheviks overthrow Kerensky's Provisional Government.
17/30 November - In Tobolsk, Nikolai learns of the coup.

1918
16 April - Nikolai, Aleksandra, Maria Nikolaievna, Doctor Evgeny Botkin, and three servants are moved to the Ipatiev house in Ekaterinburg. Olga, Tatiana, and Anastasia stay behind in Tobolsk with Aleksei, who is ill.
30 April - NAM and company arrive in Ekaterinburg.
23 May - OTAA arrive in Ekaterinburg.
12-13 June - Grand Duke Mikhail is killed.

16-17 July - NAOTMAA are murdered in the cellar at Ipatiev house, along with Anna Demidova, the footman Trupp, the cook Kharitonov, and Dr. Botkin.

Birthdays & Name Days

Tsar Nikolai II: 6/18 May 1868
Name Day: 6/19 December

Tsaritsa Alexandra: 25 May/6 June 1872
Name Day: 23 April/6 May

Empress Mother Maria: 14/26 November 1847
Name Day: 22 July/4 August

Grand Duchess Olga N.: 3/15 November 1895
Name Day: 11/24 July

Grand Duchess Tatiana N.: 29 May/10 June 1897
Name Day: 12/25 January

Grand Duchess Maria N.: 14/27 June 1899
Name Day: 22 July/4 August

Grand Duchess Anastasia N.: 5/18 June 1901
Name day: 22 December/4 January

Heir Tsesarevich Aleksei N.: 30 July/12 August 1904
Name Day: 5/18 October