Decembrist Uprising
December 26, 1825
On the day the new Tsar Nicholas I was to be crowned, three thousand guardsmen marched into Senate Square in St. Petersburg and refused to swear. They wanted a constitution. By nightfall the tsar had turned grapeshot on them. Five leaders would be hanged; the rest sent to Siberia, where their wives followed them.
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Era
Industrial Age (1801–1900), one of 513 events from that era on Saeculum.