1882
- punkar7
- May 18, 2015
- 1 min read
Russia abandons Turkestan which is annexed by China
In addition to committing genocide the Cossacks also devastated the wildlife by slaughtering massive amounts of animals for fur. 90% of the Kamchadals and half of the Vogules were killed from the eighteenth to nineteenth centuries and the rapid genocide of the indigenous population led to entire ethnic groups being entirely wiped out, with around 12 exterminated groups which could be named by Nikolai Iadrintsev as of 1882.
1882-1884 Anti-Jewish riots and pogroms. May Laws - Jews were forbidden to settle outside the towns and shtetls etc.
1881-1885 Russia conquered Transcaspian Region, Turkestan, Kazakhstan
1881-1894 Under Emperor Alexander III the Russian administration increased efforts to assimilate non-Russian peoples
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
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
1700-1900 The Slavic Russians outnumber all of the native peoples in Siberia
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