Lord Curzon, viceroy of India, decides to partition the province of Bengal into two parts and to deny Calcutta some of its traditional trading partners.[6]
Bloody Sunday:[3] Protesters from all over Russia go to Saint Petersburg to ask the Czar for reforms in government but are massacred by the Cossacks. Tamar's parents are killed along with many other Georgians.[11]
Tsar Nicholas II issues the October Manifesto, granting limited reforms and promising a liberal government.[3]
January 9: Nicholas II orders his men to fire on 150,000 workers and their children for petitioning better working conditions at the streets, killing 40 and wounding hundres. The event goes down in history as the Bloody Sunday.[12]
Fall: Nicholas II offers a half-hearted reform in the name of the Duma parliament of noblemen to the general working strike that has brought Russia to a standstill, only to later strike back at the strikers, killing and exiling tens of thousands of them.[12]
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