1907    The first issue of the Georgian Bolshevik newspaper ''Dro'' is published.

1917    Vladimir Lenin arrives in Russia from exile, marking the beginning of Bolshevik leadership in the Russian Revolution.

1917    World War I: An armistice is reached between the new Bolshevik government and the Central Powers.

1918    The Ukraine declares independence from Bolshevik Russia.

1918    Bolsheviks kill Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his family (Julian calendar date).

1918    On the orders of the Bolshevik Party carried out by Cheka, Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his immediate family and retainers are murdered at the Ipatiev House in Ekaterinburg, Russia.

1918    Bolshevik revolutionary leader Moisei Uritsky is assassinated.

1918    Fanny Kaplan shoots and seriously injures Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin. This, along with the assassination of Bolshevik senior official Moisei Uritsky days earlier, prompts the decree for Red Terror.

1918    Fanny Kaplan shoots and seriously injures Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin. This, along with the assassination of Bolshevik senior official Moisei Uritsky days earlier, prompts the decree for Red Terror.

2006    Funeral service takes place for those executed at Bykivnia forest, outside Kiev, Ukraine. 817 Ukrainian civilians (out of some 100,000) executed by Bolsheviks at Bykivnia in 1930s – early 1940s are reburied.