1861 in Russia

• Monarch – Alexander II

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• February 27 – Russian troops fire on a crowd in Warsaw protesting Russian rule, killing 5 protesters.
• March 3 (February 19 O.S.) – Emancipation reform of 1861: Serfdom is abolished.
• March 13 – Tsushima incident: the Russian corvette Posadnik arrives at Tsushima Island in the Korea Strait, Japan, provoking a reaction from the Japan.
• April 24 (N.S.) – Bezdna in Russia is the scene of a peasant uprising; the military open fire and nearly 5000 are killed.[http://education.cambridge.org/media/577146/history_for_the_ib_diploma__imperial_russia__revolutions_and_the_emergence_of_the_soviet_state_1853%E2%80%93_samples.pdf http://education.cambridge.org/media/577146 "Imperial Russia, revolutions_and_the_emergence_of_the_Soviet_state"]. Accessed 11 March 2013
• May 21 – Russian sailors clash with Japanese samurai and farmers at Tsushima island.[https://books.google.com/books?id=bS3w6tGiraEC&pg=PA77 Negotiating with Imperialism, Michael R. Auslin, p. 79]

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• 16 November - Arvid Järnefelt, Finnish author (d. 1932)

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