CHRONOLOGY - Russia: A Reference Guide from the Renaissance to the Present - page 415

Ban on teaching and printing of works in Ukrain-
ian (with the exception of belles lettres) is
followed by a ban on printing works in Belo-
russian and Lithuanian (using Latin script).
N. I. Ilminsky begins native-language schools as
part of process of bringing Christianity to non-
Christians in eastern part of the empire.

1867-1869
Church reforms.

1868
Conquest of Samarkand.
Russia establishes protectorate over Emirate of
Bukhara.

1863-1864
January uprising in Poland and Lithuania (and
Belorussia).

1869
Publication of Peter Lavrov's Historical Letters and
Tolstoy's War and Peace .
Compulsory military service introduced.
Kazakhs of the Small Horde begin uprising.
Founding of the (Russian) University of Warsaw.
Revolutionary Sergei Nechaev involved in the
murder of a fellow revolutionary, the student
Ignatiev.
Tchaikovsky's first opera, The Voyevodya , per-
formed.

1864
Reforms of local self-government (zemstvo),
judiciary, and elementary schools.
Nikolai Chernyshevsky banished to Siberia.
Severe reprisals against participants in the Jan-
uary uprising in Poland, followed by measures
against Polish Catholic Church, and use of Pol-
ish language in administration and schools.
Agrarian reform in Congress of Poland.
Conquest and eviction of west Caucasian Circas-
sians.
Colonel Cherniaev's first campaign in middle Asia.

1870
Municipal reform.
Formation of artists' group Wanderers (Pered-
vizhniki)
Vladimir Ilich Ulianov (Lenin) born in provincial
town of Simbirsk.
Mendeleyev's Principles of Chemistry.
Population of Russian Empire estimated at 86
million.
Russia renounces the Black Sea military restric-
tions imposed on it by the 1856 Treaty of Paris.
London Convention on the Straits.

1864-1870
Agrarian reform in Transcaucasia.

1864-1885
Conquest of Central Asia (Turkestan).

1865
Conquest of Tashkent.
Reform of censorship system (Temporary Regu-
lations).

1870-1871
Prussia defeats France. Bismarck unites Ger-
many under William I.

1866
Prussia defeats Austria at Koniggratz.
First attempt on Alexanders's life.
Moscow Conservatory founded; Tchaikovsky
becomes a professor.
Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment published.

1870-1874
Minister of War Dmitrii Miliutin issues military
reforms.

1871
Abolition of special status of colonists.

1867
Russia sells Alaska to United States.
Establishment of Governor-Generalship of
Turkestan.

1872
Russian publication of Marx's Das Kapital .
Carl Fabergé takes over his father's business.