Nicholas II of Russia

Chronological events about Nicholas II of Russia.

17 July - President Poincaré leaves Paris on visit to Emperor.
20 July - President Poincaré arrives at Kronstadt and is personally welcomed by Emperor.
24 July - Serbia makes appeal to Emperor.
27 July - Wires to Belgrade that Russia cannot be indifferent to fate of Serbia.
29 July - Tries to stop general Russian mobilisation 11 p.m.
1 August - King George wires Emperor stating that Germany recommended British proposals to Austria on 30 July, but that Russian mobilisation was reported during Austrian Cabinet meeting.
1 August - Wires to King George that he had to mobilise on account of Serbia; but though he had promised the Kaiser he would not move troops during negotiations, Germany had suddenly declared war.

1915

1 August - Issues fine manifesto.
4 September - Speech at first meeting of Special Conference of National Defence.
5 September - Takes supreme command of the Russian forces.
7 September - Exchanges messages with President Poincaré.

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Various sources contemporary to the war have been used to compile The Lonsdale Battalion On This Day. The majority of the events shown on this day (Nicholas II of Russia), including any supplementary notes, enlistments and statistical data etc., have been primarily sourced from the Lonsdale Battalion War Diary (November 1915 to June 1918), Record of the XIth (Service) Battalion (Lonsdale) and abridged material from Timeline and Chronology of the Lonsdale Battalion (September 1914 - May 1915), which are sourced from the original DLONS/L/13/13 Lowther Estate Archives. Events from that chronology are reproduced here with kind permission of Jim Lowther (2016). They are identified and referenced separately by their unique DLONS numbers. Please do not publish these events without prior permission from the Lowther Estate. All casualty names, numbers, ranks, date of deaths and places of burial/commemoration have been sourced from Soldiers Died in the Great War 1914-19, Volume 39, The Border Regiment and the Commonwealth War Graves Commission database respectively.