| 22 Apr 1870 |
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov born, Simbirsk Russia. |
| Jan 1886 |
Father dies of a heart attack. |
| 1887 |
Expelled from school. |
| Mar 1887 |
Brother Alexander arrested, conspiracy to assassinate Czar Alexander III. |
| 20 Mar 1887 |
Brother Alexander hanged. |
| 1891 |
Law degree. |
| 1907 |
Lenin meets Julius Hammer, Armand Hammer's father, at the Seventh Congress of the Second International, Stuttgart Germany. |
| 1917 |
Exiled. |
| 16 Apr 1917 |
Returns to Petrograd. |
| 1918 |
Assassination attempt. |
| 1919 |
COMINTERN founded. |
| 25 May 1922 |
Suffers a stroke, resulting in partial paralysis. |
| 21 Jan 1924 |
Lenin dies, complications from strokes. |
| 26 Jan 1924 |
Petrograd is renamed Leningrad, in his honor. |
