Mutiny on the Battleship Potemkin

Date: June 27, 1905 • Location: Moscow, Russia

This milestone marked the outbreak and beginning of this historic period, which spanned 1905–1907.

First Russian Revolution: The crew of the Russian battleship Potemkin began a mutiny against their officers.

The Russian Revolution of 1905, also known as the First Russian Revolution, was a revolution in the Russian Empire which began on 22 January 1905 and led to the establishment of a constitutional monarchy under the Russian Constitution of 1906, the country's first. The revolution saw mass political and social unrest, including worker strikes, peasant revolts, and military mutinies directed against Tsar Nicholas II and the autocracy, who were compelled to establish the State Duma legislative assembly and grant certain rights to the population, though both were later undermined.