CHRONOLOGY
1917
| 22 January | Mass demonstrations in Petrograd to commemorate the Bloody Sunday massacre |
| 29 January | Beginning of meetings between Prince Sixtus and representatives of Austria-Hungary to discuss possible peace terms |
| 27 February | Strikes begin in Petrograd |
| 7 March | Cossacks and other troops deployed on the streets to prevent looting |
| 8 March | First clashes between strikers and police; Cossacks side with the people against the authorities |
| 9 March | Troops of the Petrograd garrison begin to mutiny |
| 10–11 March | Mutineers and workers release prisoners from Petrograd’s prisons and police stations |
| 13 March | Ivanov dispatched from Mogilev to suppress dissent in Petrograd. Soviet of Workers’ Deputies and Provisional Committee of Duma Members formed. Tsar leaves Mogilev to travel to Tsarskoe Selo |
| 15 March | Tsar abdicates. Provisional Government formed |
| 22 March | Tsar arrives in Tsarskoe Selo and he and his family are placed under arrest |
| 23 March | Prince Sixtus and Emperor Karl have a secret meeting outside Vienna |
| 27 March | Lenin leaves Zurich |
| 4 April | German attack to eliminate the Toboly bridgehead on the River Stochod |
| 6 April | USA declares war on Germany |
| 16 April | Lenin arrives in Petrograd |
| 3 May | Austro-Hungarian diplomats suggest to Germany that peace might be possible in return for ceding Alsace-Lorraine |
| 12 May | Central Powers commanders transmit radio message to Russian commanders calling for ceasefire |
| 30 June | Beginning of Kerensky Offensive |
| 7 July | Kornilov’s Southwest Front and Denikin’s West Front attack |
| 14 July | Litzmann launches counterattacks against Southwest Front Estonian National Council or Maapäev convenes |
| 16 July | Further unrest in Petrograd; mutinous troops and Red Guards demand that the Soviet takes power |
| 18 July | Troops loyal to Provisional Government restore order in Petrograd |
| 19 July | Central Powers launch counteroffensive against Russians in eastern Galicia; Kerensky replaces Prince Lvov as Russian head of state Reichstag declaration calling for peace without annexations or reparations; dismissal of Bethmann-Hollweg |
| 23 July | Romanian Army attacks in Moldova |
| 24 July | Meeting of Entente Powers in Paris to discuss separate peace with Austria-Hungary |
| 6 August | Germans begin counteroffensive in Moldova |
| 24 August | Kornilov orders troops to move closer to Petrograd |
| 1 September | Germans begin attack to capture Riga |
| 3 September | German troops occupy Riga |
| 4 September | Vladimir Lvov informs Kerensky of military plot to overthrow him |
| 9 September | Kerensky dismisses Kornilov as commander-in-chief; Kerensky orders troops to advance on Petrograd |
| 11 September | Kerensky appoints himself commander-in-chief |
| 13 September | Kornilov arrested |
| 18 September | Creation of the Vilnius Conference |
| 10 October | Beginning of Albion, the German campaign to capture the Estonian islands |
| 17 October | Slava sunk by German warships |
| 6 November | Kerensky tries to take steps against the Bolsheviks |
| 7 November | Bolsheviks begin to occupy key buildings around Petrograd; Kerensky leaves in search of loyalist troops |
| 8 November | Bolsheviks seize the Winter Palace |
| 10 November | Kerensky and Krasnov occupy Tsarskoe Selo |
| 12 November | Red Guards defeat the attempt by Krasnov to attack towards Petrograd |
| 19 November | Dukhonin releases Kornilov and other prisoners |
| 2 December | Soviet delegation leaves Petrograd to meet Germans for peace talks |
| 3 December | Brest-Litovsk conference begins |
| 7 December | Romanian delegation travels to Focșani for peace talks |
| 11 December | Vilnius Council accepts German offer of limited independence |
| 15 December | Armistice terms for Eastern Front agreed at Brest-Litovsk |
| 28 December | Brest-Litovsk conference is adjourned |
1918
| 8 January | Brest-Litovsk conference resumes |
| 28 January | Finnish Reds try to secure control of Finland |
| 8 February | Peace treaty signed between the Ukraine and Central Powers |
| 16 February | Brest-Litovsk conference collapses Vilnius Council issues declaration of full independence |
| 18 February | Central Powers commence advance into Russian territory |
| 26 February | German troops occupy Tallinn |
| 3 March | Brest-Litovsk Treaty signed |
| 15 March | Mannerheim commences White Finnish attack to capture Tampere |
| 21 March | Germans launch their last major offensive on the Western Front |
| 3 April | German troops land in Hanko in southern Finland |
| 12 April | Declaration of the creation of the Baltische Staat |
| 13 April | German troops capture Helsinki |
| 6 April | Mannerheim’s troops capture Tampere |
| 18 April | Mannerheim’s troops capture Viborg |
| 7 May | Bucharest Treaty signed |
| 2 October | Emperor Karl announces reorganisation of the Austro-Hungarian Empire along federal lines |
| 4 October | German and Austro-Hungarian governments send first messages to USA to seek peace |
| 26 October | Kaiser Wilhelm accepts Ludendorff’s resignation |
| 29 October | Naval mutinies begin in German ports |
| 10 November | Kaiser Wilhelm goes into exile in the Netherlands |
| 4 November | Armistice declared on the Italian Front |
| 8 November | Piłsudski is released from captivity in Magdeburg and returns to Warsaw |
| 10 November | Romania formally rejects Bucharest Treaty and resumes hostilities |
| 11 November | Armistice declared on the Western Front Emperor Karl abdicates Creation of Baltische Landeswehr Piłsudski becomes Polish head of state and commander-in-chief |
| 13 November | Russia renounces the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk |
| 22 November | British 6th Light Cruiser Squadron leaves for Estonia |
| 25 November | Red Army invades Estonia |
| 28 November | Bolsheviks capture Narva |
| 24 November | Bolsheviks capture Tartu |
| 5 December | HMS Cassandra sinks after hitting a mine in the eastern Baltic |
| 7 December | British warships reach Tallinn |
| 8 December | Declaration of Provisional Lithuanian Revolutionary Government |
| 17 December | Declaration of Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic |
| 25 December | Red Army reaches Koeru in northern Estonia |
| 26 December | Naval action in Tallinn Bay; Russian destroyer Spartak captured |
| 27 December | Russian destroyer Avtroil captured |
1919
| 1 January | Polish Samoobrona drives communists from Vilnius |
| 4 January | Red Army captures Riga |
| 5 January | Bolshevik troops reach Vilnius |
| 25 January | Red Army takes Telšiai |
| 19 January | Estonian forces retake Narva |
| 1 February | Goltz arrives in Latvia |
| 7 February | Red Army attacks towards Kaunas |
| 14 February | Final Bolshevik attacks towards Kaunas defeated Polish and Russian forces clash at Bereza Kartuska |
| 18 February | Red Army attacks Narva again |
| 27 February | Soviet Socialist Republics of Lithuania and Belarus merge to create Lithuanian-Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic or ‘Lit-Bel’ |
| 3 March | German and Latvian forces commence attacks to recapture Latvia |
| 16 April | Polish forces commence advance towards Vilnius |
| 19 April | Polish troops enter Vilnius |
| 26 April | First clashes between Polish and Lithuanian forces |
| 13 May | Northern Corps of the White Russian forces attacks from Narva into Russian territory |
| 22 May | Freikorps units attack towards Riga |
| 23 May | Riga falls to Freikorps and Baltische Landeswehr |
| 29 May | Freikorps and Baltische Landeswehr advance into northeast Latvia |
| 5 June | Beginning of Battle of Cēsis |
| 17 June | Agar attacks the Bolshevik warships in Kronstadt, sinking Oleg |
| 22 June | Estonian forces advance and drive the Germans back from Cēsis |
| 24 June | Estonian forces move closer to Riga |
| 3 July | Ceasefire between Estonian and German forces in Latvia |
| 5 July | Latvian forces take control of Riga |
| 18 July | French propose new border between Poland and Lithuania |
| 2 August | Polish Army attacks towards Minsk |
| 8 August | Polish troops capture Minsk |
| 10 August | First peace offer to Estonia by Russia |
| 18 August | British torpedo boats attack Kronstadt again, sinking Pamiat Azova and damaging Andrei Pervozvanni and Petropavlovsk |
| 28 August | Attempted pro-Polish coup in Lithuania |
| 8 October | Bermontians attack towards Riga |
| 10 October | Northern Corps launches major attack towards Petrograd |
| 14 October | Goltz leaves Latvia |
| 20 October | White Russians capture Tsarskoe Selo |
| 21 October | Bolshevik counterattack drives back leading elements of Northern Corps |
| 3 November | Latvians launch counterattacks to drive back Bermontian forces near Riga |
| 26 November | Latvia declares war on Germany |
| 30 November | Last German forces driven from Latvia |
| 5 December | Peace talks between Estonia and Russia open in Tartu |
1920
| 3 January | Ceasefire between Russia and Estonia |
| 25 April | Polish forces attack Bolsheviks in Ukraine |
| 7 May | Polish troops occupy Kiev |
| 27 May | Russian First Cavalry Army commences attacks on Poles in Ukraine |
| 4 July | Red Army attacks towards Minsk |
| 10 July | Polish troops pull back from Kiev |
| 11 July | Red Army recaptures Minsk |
| 14 July | Russian cavalry capture Vilnius |
| 15 July | Peace treaty between Latvia and Germany |
| 11 August | Peace treaty between Latvia and Bolshevik Russia |
| 12 August | Red Army attacks towards Warsaw and captures Radzymin |
| 16 August | Polish Army launches its counterattack in the Battle of Warsaw |
| 9 October | Polish troops re-enter Vilnius |
| 12 October | Peace treaty between Poland and Bolshevik Russia |