22 ene 1905 año - Bloody Sunday

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January 22, 1905
On January 22, 1905, Georgy Apollonovich Gapon led a group of workers to the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg, where the czar was. Imperial forces opened fire into the crowd of demonstrators. This lead to the killing and wounding of hundreds. Riots and strikes started throughout the country in response to the massacre. Czar Nicholas II claimed that he will create a series of representative assembles, a Dumas, to work toward reformation.