Romanovs executed at Yekaterinburg
July 17, 1918
In the cellar of a merchant's house, Nicholas II, his wife, four daughters, and their hemophiliac son were shot by Bolsheviks who feared White armies might rescue them. The bodies were soaked in acid and dumped in a mine. Three centuries of dynasty ended on a stone floor in the Urals, in the middle of the night.
In context
Also in 1918 (4 other events on record)
- Spanish Flu Pandemic Begins · North America · Disaster
- Armistice in the Compiegne forest · Europe · War
- Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicates · Europe · Politics
- Wilson's Fourteen Points · North America · Politics
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Era
Modern Era (1901–2000), one of 590 events from that era on Saeculum.
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