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Crimean War & 1853-1856 \tn 
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Compulsory MiIlitary service reduced from 25 to 16 years & 1859 \tn 
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Emancipation of the Serfs & 1861 \tn 
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Introduction of new, modern, western style judicial system & 1864 \tn 
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Army rank now based on merit and skill rather than wealth/social status & 1864 \tn 
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Local Zemstvo appeared in most parts of European Russia & 1864 \tn 
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Rigid censorship rules eased & 1865 \tn 
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Alexander II's eldest son dies \& his wife withdraws from public appearances & 1865 \tn 
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Liberal ministers replaced with conservatives, including appointing {\bf{Dmitry Tolstoy}} as minister of education & 1866 \tn 
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Dmitry Karakazov attempts to shoot Alexander & April 1866 \tn 
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Only students from Gimnaziya schools could go to university & 1871 \tn 
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Trial of 193- 153/193 revolutionaries acquitted, rest had light punishment. Brought publicity & 1877-1878 \tn 
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Governor generals established, held emergency powers to prosecute in military court \& exile political offenders & 1879 \tn 
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Aleksander Soloviev shoots at Alexander 5 times & April 1879 \tn 
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Third Section disbanded & 1880 \tn 
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Mine under WInter Palace dining room kills 12 and wounds 50- Alexander late for dinner & Februrary 1880 \tn 
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Loris-Melikov constitution signed & 13th March 1881 \tn 
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Alexander II assassinated by people's will & 13th March 1881 \tn 
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Okhrana allowed to imprison suspects without trial & 1881 \tn 
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Ignatiev fired as minister of Interior and replaced by reactionary Tolstoy after proposing an Assembly of the Land to represent the peasantry & 1881 \tn 
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Ivan Delyanov becomes Minister of Education & 1882 \tn 
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Censorship law gives government total control over newspapers & 1882 \tn 
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Bunge appointed Minister of Finance & 1882 \tn 
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Russification drive & 1885 \tn 
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Vyshnegradsky appointed Minister of Finance & 1886 \tn 
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Alexander III's train derailed by terrorist bomb; he suffers kidney injuries & 1888 \tn 
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Instated Land Captains & 1889 \tn 
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Zemstva vote restricted- Doctors, Teachers \& Wealthy Middle Classes can't vote & 1890 \& 1892 \tn 
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Zemsta famine relief & 1891 \tn 
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Sergei Witte becomes Minister of Finance & 1892 \tn 
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