1858

Alaska natives against the Russian settlement

• Whole left bank of the Amur, and the Ussur region, were claimed as Russian territories and large-scale Russian colonization began.

• Mahtra War, Estonians against Russian rule. The revolt was suppressed using the regular army, 14 peasants were wounded and 7 killed on site, 3 died later of wounds. The military casualties included 13 soldiers wounded and 1 officer killed. 60 of 65 peasant defendants were sentenced to death by a court-martial in Tallinn. Baltic governor-general Suvorov later reduced the sentences of 44 peasants to corporal punishment, 35 of whom were sentenced to exile in Siberia, while the remaining 21 defendants were set free.

• Russians sought to drive the Nanais out of their traditional fishing grounds

• The Russian Empire gained complete control over Nivkh lands after the Treaty of Aigun and 1860 Convention of Peking

• The Russian Empire gained complete control over Orok lands after the 1858 Treaty of Aigun and 1860 Convention of Peking

• 1857-1906 The Russians established a penal colony on Sakhalin. They transported numerous Russian criminal and political exiles there, including Lev Shternberg, an important early ethnographer of the Nivkh. The Nivkh were soon outnumbered; they were sometimes employed as prison guards and to track escaped convicts

• 1856-1858 Jankoji Nurmukhammedov's Revolt, Kazakhs against Russian rule

• 1831-1860 Karachays joined the bloody anti-Russian struggles carried out by the Caucasian peoples.

• 1828-1859 Highlanders of Dagestan revolting againsta Russian rule

• 1817-1864 Caucasian Wars

• 1800-2001 Russia annexing Kingdom of Kartli-Kakheti (Eastern Georgia) and deposing the Bagratids

• 1795-1918 Belorussia under Russian rule

• 1783-1917 War with Georgia

• 1763-1864 Russo-Circassian War

• 1732-1867 The Russian colonization of the Americas

• 1700-1900 The Slavic Russians outnumber all of the native peoples in Siberia

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