1917<\/b><\/p>\r\n
March<\/b> 1918<\/b><\/p>\r\n January<\/b> 1919<\/b><\/p>\r\n January<\/b> 1920<\/b><\/p>\r\n January<\/b> 1921<\/b><\/p>\r\n February<\/b> 1922<\/b><\/p>\r\n February<\/b> 1923<\/b><\/p>\r\n March<\/b> 1924<\/b><\/p>\r\n March<\/b> 1925<\/b><\/p>\r\n November<\/b> 1927<\/b><\/p>\r\n \u0410\u043f\u0440\u0435\u043b\u044c<\/b> 1939<\/b><\/p>\r\n September<\/b>
\r\n– 12 March (27 February Old Style) \u2013 the February Bourgeois Revolution in Russia
\r\n– 15 March \u2013 Emperor Nicholas II of Russia abdicated, the Provisional Government \r\nwas created in Petersburg
\r\n-15 March \u2013 2 April \u2013 the local bodies of the Provisional Government \r\nof the Russian Republic were established in Belarus (in Minsk \u2013 the Provisional Civil \r\nCommittee, from \r\n20 March \u2013 the City Committee of Public Order; in Vitebsk \u2013 the City Public \r\nCommittee; in Mogilev \u2013 the Executive Committee on the Protection of Public \r\nOrder; in Gomel \u2013 the Committee on Public Security
\r\n– 17 March \u2013 the Minsk Soviet of Workers Deputies and the Minsk \r\nSoviet of Soldiers Deputies were established, and on 23 March they were united into the Minsk Soviet of Workers \r\nand Soldiers Deputies
\r\n– March \u2013 the Western Region was established in the former area of the North-Western Region of the \r\nRussian Empire, including the provinces of Mogilev and Minsk and \r\nunoccupied part of Vilnius Province, with the center in Minsk. From late \r\n1917 the Region included the provinces of Vilnius, Vitebsk, Minsk and Mogilev. In February 1918 \r\nthe center moved to Smolensk, from April 1918 the Region included Smolensk \r\nProvince. In September 1918 the Western Region was renamed as Western Commune
\r\n– March \u2013 the Belarusian Socialist Gromada Party (a left-populist national party) \r\nresumed its work and set the objective of the autonomy of Belarus as part of the Russian \r\nDemocratic Republic. At that time this view was also supported by \r\nrepresentatives of other Belarusian parties irrespective of their social and \r\npolitical aims
\r\nApril<\/strong>
\r\n– 7\u20139 April \u2013 the Congress of Belarusian National Organizations (in Minsk), creation \r\nof a coordination center of the Belarusian national movement \u2013 election of the \r\nBelarusian National Committee (BNK) consisting of 18 members headed by R. Skirmunt. The delegation was sent to the Provisional Government to discuss \r\nissues of future development in Belarus, but the Provisional Government did not \r\nsupport the idea of Belarusian autonomy
\r\n– early April \u2013 the Regional Peasants Congress was convened by the initiative of \r\nthe BNK
\r\n– 20\u201330 April \u2013 the Congress of Soldiers and Workers Deputies of Western Front \r\nArmies and Rear supported the Provisional Government and its policy
\r\nJune<\/b>
\r\n– 4\u20137 June \u2013 the Congress of Soviets of Workers and Soldiers Deputies of Western \r\nRegion (in Minsk) supported the Provisional Government and opposed the transfer \r\nof power to the Soviets
\r\nJuly<\/b>
\r\n– 21\u201323 July \u2013 the Second Congress of Belarusian National Organizations and Parties \r\n(in Minsk) supported the political autonomy as part of the Russian Federative \r\nDemocratic Republic; the Central Council (Rada) of Belarusian Organizations was \r\ncreated instead of the Belarusian National \r\nCommittee, with the executive committee functioning between its sessions
\r\nSeptember<\/b>
\r\n– 21\u201328 September \u2013 the Congress of the Peoples of Russia (in Kiev)
\r\nOctober<\/b>
\r\n– 31 October \u2013 6 November \u2013 the Congress of Belarusian Soldiers of Western Front \r\nwith the participation of representatives from other fronts and the Baltic \r\nFleet supported the autonomy of Belarus and recognized necessity to \r\ncreate the Belarusian army. The Central Belarusian Military Council was elected \r\nto organize the national army
\r\nNovember<\/b>
\r\n– 6 November \u2013 the Central Council of Belarusian Organizations was reorganized as the \r\nGreat Belarusian Council, which also included the executive committee of the Central \r\nBelarusian Military Council
\r\n– 7 November (25 October Old Style) \u2013 the October Socialist Revolution in Petrograd
\r\n– 7\u20139 November \u2013 the Second All-Russian Congress of Soviets of Workers and \r\nSoldiers Deputies announced the transfer of all power to the Soviets; \r\nestablishment of the Council of People’s Commissars (SNK); adoption of Decrees on Peace and Land
\r\n– 7 November \u2013 the Minsk Soviet of Workers and Soldiers Deputies seized power in the \r\ncity
\r\n– 8 November \u2013 the Military-Revolutionary Committee of Western Front was created \r\nat the Minsk Soviet \u2013 a temporary revolutionary body for establishment of \r\nSoviet power in German-unoccupied area of Belarus and on Russia’s Western Front
\r\n– 9 November \u2013 appeal to the Belarusian people from the Great Belarusian Council \r\nand the Central Belarusian Military Council, announcing the October armed \r\nrevolt in Petrograd as a manifestation of anarchy
\r\n– 20 November \u2013 proclamation of independence of the Ukrainian National Republic \r\n(UNR), with the Ukrainian side making claims on Mozyr, Pinsk and Rechitsa districts \r\nin Minsk Province
\r\n– late November \u2013 the Belarusian Regional Committee was founded in Petrograd at the \r\nAll-Russian Soviet of Peasants Deputies
\r\nDecember<\/b>
\r\n– 1\u20133 December \u2013 the Congress of Soviets of Peasants Deputies of Minsk and Vilnius \r\nProvinces
\r\n– 2\u20134 December \u2013 the Congress of Soviets of Workers and Soldiers Deputies of Western \r\nRegion
\r\n– 4 December \u2013 the first armistice was signed between Soviet Russia and the \r\nGerman army in Soly, Oshmyany district
\r\n– 9 December \u2013 the Regional Executive Committee of Soviets of Workers, \r\nSoldiers and Peasants Deputies of Western Region and Front (Obliskomzap, \r\nfunctioned until 2 January 1919) and the Council of People’s Commissars of \r\nWestern Region and Front were created in Minsk. \r\nThe Obliskomzap assumed power on the whole area of Western Region unoccupied by \r\nthe German troops
\r\n– 15 December \u2013 Soviet Russia and the states of the German \r\nblock concluded in Brest-Litovsk an agreement on preliminary armistice
\r\n– 15 December \u2013 the Council of People’s Commissars headed by V. Lenin passed a decision to \r\nprovide financial aid to the Belarusian Regional Committee
\r\n– 18 December \u2013 the First All-Belarusian Congress started in Minsk by the \r\ninitiative of the Great Belarusian Council and the Belarusian Regional Committee (continued \r\nwith intervals until 31 December), passed a resolution on the right of the \r\nBelarusian people for self-determination and democratic government and worked \r\nout the concept of Belarusian statehood
\r\n– 31 December \u2013 the First All-Belarusian Congress was disbanded by order of the \r\nCouncil of People’s Commissars of Western Region and Front <\/p>\r\n
\r\n– 3 January \u2013 an illegal meeting of some of the deputies of the First All-Belarusian Congress elected a leading center of the national movement in Belarus \u2013 \r\nthe Council (Rada) of the All-Belarusian Congress and its Executive Committee
\r\n– 25 January (until late February) \u2013 an anti-Soviet revolt in Eastern Belarus by \r\nthe First Polish Corps (of the Russian army) led by General Yu. Dovbor-Musnitsky \r\n(the Corps was disbanded by German occupation authorities in May 1918)
\r\n– 25\u201328 January \u2013 Conference of Belarusian National Organizations in \r\nVilnius, whose delegates supported the idea of the Belarusian-Lithuanian State. \r\nThe Conference elected the Belarusian Council of Vilnius headed by A. Lutskevich \u2013 \r\na coordination center of Belarusian political and social organizations on the \r\noccupied territory of Belarus. Existed until June 1919
\r\nFebruary<\/b>
\r\n– 2 February \u2013 a declaration-protest of the Belarusian mission at the \r\nconference in Brest demanding their participation in peace negotiations
\r\n– 13 February \u2013 Decree of the Council of People’s Commissars of the RSFSR on the establishment of the Belarusian \r\nNational Commissariat (Belnatskom) \u2013 a division of the People’s Commissariat of \r\nNationalities of the RSFSR, from March 1918 functioned in Moscow, had divisions \r\nin Vitebsk, Smolensk and Petrograd. Carried out political, cultural and \r\neducational work among the Belarusians in the area of Soviet Russia, helped \r\nrefugees, organized the All-Russian Congress of Refugees from Belarus, opened \r\nBelarusian schools, clubs and educational organizations. Worked in close contact \r\nwith the Belarusians sections of the RKP(b). Belnatskom had polemics with members \r\nof the RKP(b) North-Western regional committee and Obliskomzap who opposed the \r\nidea of Belarusian statehood. Existed until March 1919
\r\n– 18 February \u2013 the German troops began an offensive and \r\noccupied Central and Eastern Belarus, stopping on the line of Rossony\u2013Polotsk\u2013Senno\u2013Orsha\u2013Mogilev\u2013Rogachev\u2013Zhlobin\u2013Gomel. \r\nThe Soviet power remained only in some eastern districts of Vitebsk and Mogilev \r\nprovinces unoccupied by the Germans
\r\n– 19 February \u2013 the Council of People’s Commissars of Western \r\nRegion and Front left for Smolensk in view of the German offensive. The transition of \r\npower, after the Bolsheviks left Minsk, to the Executive Committee of the \r\nCouncil (Rada) of the First All-Belarusian Congress
\r\n– 21 February \u2013 the First Constituent Charter to the Peoples of Belarus from the \r\nExecutive Committee of the Council of the First All-Belarusian Congress \r\nannounced the Committee a temporary governmental body in Belarus and called upon the \r\nBelarusian people to execute its right for full self-determination. The creation \r\nof the government \u2013 the National Secretariat of Belarus headed by I. Voronko
\r\n– 21 February (until 10 December) \u2013 occupation of Minsk by German troops
\r\n– 25 February \u2013 occupation of Polotsk and Mozyr by German troops
\r\nMarch<\/b>
\r\n– 1 March (until 15 January 1919) \u2013 occupation of Gomel by German troops
\r\n– 3 March \u2013 the conclusion of the Brest Peace Treaty between the RSFSR and \r\nGermany, Austria-Hungary, Turkey and Bulgaria, which signified the exit of \r\nRussia from the war and established the area of Belarus on the line of Dvinsk\u2013Sventsyany\u2013Lida\u2013Pruzhany\u2013Brest. \r\nThe plan of the German administration was to create the Lithuanian state, \r\nincluding the area of Vilnius and Grodno regions. The rest of the \r\nGerman-occupied Belarusian lands was intended for removal of \r\nmaterial resources under contribution. Belarusian representatives were not allowed to \r\nparticipate in the talks and Belarusian interests were not taken into \r\naccount by either side
\r\n– 9 March \u2013 the Second Constituent Charter from the Executive Committee of the \r\nCouncil of the First All-Belarusian Congress \r\nannounced the creation of the Belarusian National Republic (BNR) in the ethnic \r\nborders of Belarus and the democratic liberties for its citizens
\r\n– 12 March \u2013 occupation of Mogilev by the Polish Corps of Yu. Dovbor-Musnitsky, \r\nfrom May to 31 October \u2013 by German troops
\r\n– 19 March \u2013 the Council of the All-Belarusian Congress proclaimed itself the \r\nCouncil of the BNR, with functions of the parliament
\r\n– 25 March \u2013 the Council of the BNR, at a session with the participation of the delegation \r\nof the Belarusian Council of Vilnius, adopted the Third Constituent Charter of \r\nthe BNR, which denied the legitimacy of the Brest Treaty, announced BNR an independent and free state, and \r\nvoiced the separation from Soviet Russia
\r\n– March – November \u2013 Republic of Rudobelka \u2013 an area in the south of Bobruisk \r\nDistrict where the Soviet government bodies remained active in the conditions \r\nof German occupation
\r\n– Belarusian National Republic (BNR) was recognized by the Ukrainian \r\nNational Republic (UNR), Lithuania, Bulgaria and other states
\r\nApril <\/strong>
\r\n– 1 April (until December) \u2013 the People’s Secretariat of Education of \r\nBelarus opened free Courses of Belarusian Studies in Minsk
\r\n– 10\u201314 April \u2013 the Second Congress of Soviets of Western Region (in \r\nSmolensk) decided to include Smolensk Province into Western Region; passed the \r\nDeclaration \u00abTo the Belarusian workers and peasants\u00bb which called the \r\nproclamation of the BNR as a counter-revolutionary action executed by the \r\nenemies of Soviet power
\r\n– 19\u201320 April \u2013 the first session of government representatives of the BNR and \r\nthe UNR on the establishment of borders between the republics
\r\n– 25 April \u2013 creation of the Belarusian Trade Chamber in the UNR headed by M. \r\nDovnor-Zapolsky
\r\n– 26 April \u2013 the Council of the BNR passed a resolution to send a telegram to Kaiser \r\nWilhelm II of Germany thanking for the liberation from Russian rule and asking \r\nto support the BNR. The telegram was signed by Council Chairman I. Sereda, \r\nChairman of the National Secretariat I. Voronko and several council members. \r\nBecause of different views about which side to support in matters of building \r\nthe Belarusian state, the Belarusian Socialist Gromada Party (BSG) broke into \r\nthe Belarusian Party of Socialist-Revolutionaries (supported the full \r\nself-determination of the Belarusian people), the Belarusian Party of \r\nSocialist-Federalists (supported the declaration of independence of the BNR and \r\nsimultaneously the concept of worldwide federation \u2013 integration on \r\na world scale) and the Belarusian Social-Democratic Party (stood for the \r\nindependence of Belarus as a democratic republic)
\r\n\u2013 a political crisis inside the Council of the First All-Belarusian Congress, \r\nwhen Socialist-Revolutionaries, Mensheviks and Jewish Socialists abandoned the \r\nCouncil
\r\nMay<\/b>
\r\n– 7 May \u2013 the National Secretariat of the BNR created a commission for working out the \r\nstrategic map of Belarus
\r\nJune<\/strong>
\r\n– 1\u20134 June \u2013 the Peace Treaty of Brest was approved by the Fourth RKP(b) \r\nNorth-Western Conference (in Smolensk)
\r\nJuly<\/b>
\r\n– 12 July \u2013 the National Secretariat of the BNR cancelled all decrees issued by \r\nthe VTsIK \r\nand SNK of the RSFSR
\r\n– 17\u201321 July \u2013 the All-Russian Congress of Refugees from Belarus (in Moscow) \r\nsupported \r\nthe creation of the Belarusian state with autonomous rights in the RSFSR. The \r\ncongress delegation was accepted by V. Lenin
\r\nAugust<\/b>
\r\n– 8\u201311 August \u2013 the First Conference of Communist Organizations of Belarus and \r\nLithuania (in Smolensk) elected the Regional Committee for preparing an armed revolt in the rear of German troops
\r\n– 28 August \u2013 Germany and the RSFSR concluded an additional agreement, by which the \r\nGerman troops were obliged to abandon the area of Belarus to the river Berezina
\r\n– 29 August \u2013 the Soviet Government issued a decree cancelling all agreements of the \r\nRussian Empire on the partitioning of the Polish Commonwealth
\r\nSeptember<\/b>
\r\n– 13 September \u2013 the Western Region of the RSFSR was renamed as Western Commune with \r\nthe center in Smolensk
\r\nOctober<\/b>
\r\n– 1-3 October \u2013 the Communist Party of Lithuania and Western Belarus was founded \r\n(existed until early 1919)
\r\n– 11 October \u2013 the Council of the BNR passed the Provisional Constitution of the Belarusian \r\nNational Republic; the National Secretariat was renamed the Council of \r\nNational Ministers headed by \u0410. Lutskevich
\r\nNovember<\/b>
\r\n– 13 November \u2013 RSFSR VTsIK annulled all provisions of the Brest Treaty in view \r\nof the revolution in Germany
\r\n– 13 November \u2013 the Red army began its advance into Belarus
\r\n– 15 November \u2013 the Western army was formed in the Red Army (from 13 March \r\n1919, the Belarusian-Lithuanian army), which conducted combat operations in the \r\narea of Belarus
\r\n– 22 November \u2013 the fourth government was created in the BNR \u2013 Council of \r\nMinisters headed by \u0410. Lutskevich
\r\n– November \u2013 German troops abandoned eastern territories of Belarus
\r\n– 27 November \u2013 the Ministry of Belarusian Affairs was created in Lithuania by the agreement between the Belarusian Council of Vilnius and the \r\npresidium of the Lithuanian Council (Tariba) (existed until March 1923)
\r\nDecember<\/b>
\r\n– 3 December \u2013 the Council of the BNR moved from Minsk to Vilnius in view of the advancing \r\nRed Army
\r\n– 10 December \u2013 German troops left Minsk. The Military-Revolutionary Committee was \r\ncreated \u2013 the highest extraordinary organ of Soviet power in Minsk Province (was liquidated \r\nfollowing the establishment of the SSRB and transfer of the Belarusian Soviet \r\ngovernment to Minsk)
\r\n– 12 December \u2013 the leaders of the RSFSR spoke at a meeting in the Minsk City Theatre
\r\n– 14 December \u2013 the Council of Ministers of the BNR sent a protest note to the Foreign Minister \r\nof the Polish Republic in view of the inclusion of Belarusian ethnographic \r\nterritories (Bialystok and Belsk regions) into Poland
\r\n– 23 December \u2013 RSFSR VTsIK passed a resolution on retention of Western \r\nCommune (as the Western Region was called from September 1918) including the \r\nprovinces of Grodno, Vitebsk, Minsk, Mogilev and Smolensk
\r\n– 24 December \u2013 TsK RKP(b) plenary session declared the Socialist Soviet \r\nRepublic of Belarus (SSRB) as a sovereign state
\r\n– 25 December \u2013 J. Stalin informed A. Myasnikov about the TsK RKP(b) consent to the \r\nestablishment of the Belarusian Soviet Republic
\r\n– 25 December \u2013 an extraordinary session of Belnatskom, the central bureau of \r\nRKP(b) Belarusian sections and the Moscow committee of RKP(b) Belarusian section defined a list of candidates to members of the Preliminary Government of \r\nthe Belarusian Soviet Republic headed by its chairman D. Zhilunovich
\r\n– 25 December \u2013 German troops left Vilnius
\r\n– from 27 December \u2013 the Council of the BNR stayed in Grodno during the German occupation
\r\n– 27 December \u2013 a meeting at the People’s \r\nCommissariat of Nationalities of RSFSR between J. Stalin and A. Myasnikov defined the territory of the \r\nBelarusian Republic to include five provinces: Grodno, Minsk, Mogilev, \r\nVitebsk and Smolensk
\r\n– 27 December \u2013 the People’s Commissariat of Nationalities of RSFSR issued a \r\ndirective on basic principles for the party and state building in \r\nBelarus
\r\n– 30\u201331 December \u2013 the Sixth North-Western RKP(b) Regional Conference (in \r\nSmolensk) was announced as the First Congress of the Communist Party (Bolshevik) \r\nof Belarus; resolution \u00abOn the declaration of Western Commune as the Belarusian Soviet \r\nRepublic\u00bb, formation of the first government, establishment of the borders of \r\nthe Republic
\r\n– 30 December \u2013 a special resolution on Belarus defined its basic area consisting \r\nof Minsk, Smolensk, Mogilev, Vitebsk and Grodno provinces and adjacent districts \r\nin neighboring provinces populated predominantly by the Belarusians
\r\n– December \u2013 German troops abandoned central territories of Belarus <\/p>\r\n
\r\n– 1 January \u2013 the Manifesto of the Provisional Workers-Peasants Soviet Government of \r\nBelarus, adopted in Smolensk, proclaimed the foundation of the Socialist Soviet \r\nRepublic of Belarus (SSRB, later renamed the Belarusian Soviet Socialist \r\nRepublic BSSR), which included Vitebsk, Grodno, Mogilev and Minsk provinces, \r\nBelarusian districts of Vilnius and Kaunas provinces, and western districts of \r\nSmolensk Province
\r\n– 3 January \u2013 the Regional Executive Committee of Western Region of RSFSR passed \r\na resolution on voluntary dissolution and transition of power to the Provisional \r\nWorkers-Peasants Soviet Government of Belarus headed by D. Zhilunovich (Tishka \r\nGartny)
\r\n– 5 January \u2013 a resolution declaring Minsk as the capital
\r\n– 7 January \u2013 the Provisional Workers-Peasants Soviet Government of Belarus moved \r\nfrom Smolensk to Minsk
\r\n– 16 January \u2013 TsK RKP(b) adopted a decision on the inclusion of Vitebsk and \r\nMogilev provinces and the Belarusian part of Smolensk Province to the RSFSR
\r\n– 21 January \u2013 the Military-Revolutionary Council of the SSRB \u2013 an extraordinary \r\ngovernmental body in Belarus was created
\r\n– 31 January \u2013 Presidium of VTsIK RSFSR passed a resolution recognizing the \r\nindependence of the SSRB
\r\n– January \u2013 German troops abandoned western and southern territories of Belarus
\r\nFebruary<\/b>
\r\n– 2\u20133 February \u2013 the First All-Belarusian Congress of Soviets (in Minsk), \r\nadoption of \r\nthe first Constitution of the SSRB (effective until 1927) and resolution on the \r\nbeginning of talks with the RSFSR on the establishment of federative relations, an \r\nappeal to all peoples for recognition of Belarusian independence and \r\nestablishment of diplomatic relations with Belarus, election of TsIK SSRB, \r\napproval of VTsIK’s \r\nresolution on uniting Belarus and Lithuania into the Lithuanian-Belarusian \r\nSoviet Socialist Republic (LitBel)
\r\n– mid-February \u2013 the Soviet power was established in most part of modern-day \r\nBelarus (except Brest, Kobrin, Volkovysk, Grodno)
\r\n– 27 February (until early September) \u2013 consolidation of the SSRB and the \r\nLithuanian Republic into the united Lithuanian-Belarusian SSR consisting of \r\nVilnius, Grodno, Minsk, Kaunas and part of Suwalki provinces with the capital in \r\nVilnius; the formation of the government \u2013 the Council of People’s Commissars \r\n(SNK) headed by V. Mitskyavichus-Kapsukas
\r\nMarch<\/b>
\r\n– 2 March \u2013 the Council of People’s Commissars of the LitBel adopted the \r\nofficial name of the new state: the Socialist Soviet Republic of Lithuania and \r\nBelarus (SSLiB, LitBel)
\r\n– 4\u20136 March \u2013 the United Congress of the KP(b)B and KPLiZB in Vilnius
\r\n– 24\u201329 March \u2013 an anti-Soviet rebel in Grodno led by Socialist-Revolutionary M. Strekopytov
\r\nApril<\/strong>
\r\n– 19 April \u2013 the Council of People’s Commissars of the LitBel passed a resolution on the transition of all power to \r\nthe Council of Defense of the LitBel
\r\n– 21 April \u2013 Polish troops occupied the capital of the LitBel \u2013 Vilnius
\r\n– 24 April \u2013 after the withdrawal of German troops, the city of Grodno came \r\nunder the governance of Poland
\r\n– 27 April (until September) \u2013 the leadership of the BNR stayed in Grodno during \r\nthe Polish occupation
\r\n– 28 April (until 17 July) \u2013 the government of the LitBel worked in Minsk
\r\n– 1 June \u2013 Decree by VTsIK RSFSR \u00abOn the Union of Soviet Republics\u00bb, \r\nconclusion of the military union of Soviet republics
\r\n– 9\u201310 June \u2013 the Belarusian Congress of Vilnius and Grodno Regions (in Vilnius) \r\ndeclared the idea of independent and indivisible Belarus, condemned the union \r\nwith Poland, supported the creation of the Belarusian-Lithuanian state \r\nwithin the borders of the former Great Duchy of Lithuania
\r\n– 28 June \u2013 conclusion of the Versailles Peace Treaty, which officially ended \r\nthe First World War
\r\nJuly<\/b>
\r\n– 1 July (until 8 August) \u2013 defense of Minsk against the Polish troops
\r\nAugust<\/b>
\r\n– August \u2013 Polish troops occupied the Belarusian area to the rivers Western \r\nDvina and Dnieper
\r\n– August \u2013 September \u2013 the Council of the BNR stayed in Minsk under the Polish occupation
\r\nDecember<\/b>
\r\n-13 December \u2013 the Council of the BNR split into the Highest Council and the National Council \u2013 respectively the supporters of \r\ncooperation with the Polish authorities (Ya. Lyosik, A. Lutskevich) and those \r\nwho supported the full independence of Belarus (P. Krechevsky, V. Lastovsky) <\/p>\r\n
\r\n– 5 January \u2013 TsK RKP(b) passed a resolution \u201cOn the relations of Belarus with \r\nthe Russian SFSR\u201d
\r\n– 19 January \u2013 TsK KP(b)LiB adopted detailed theses for \r\npreparation of a universal armed revolt against Polish troops
\r\n– January \u2013 during the talks with Polish leaders the Soviet representatives \r\nconfirmed their proposal for possible recognition of the Polish frontier on the line of the \r\nSoviet-Polish front, but the Polish government refused
\r\nMarch<\/b>
\r\n– 5\u20136 March \u2013 Polish troops occupied Mozyr and Kalinkovichi
\r\n– 8 March \u2013 Polish troops occupied Rechitsa
\r\nMay<\/b>
\r\n– 14 May \u2013 the troops of the Red Army Western Front began an offensive, \r\nassuming it as the main attack through the area of Belarus towards Warsaw, \r\nbut the \r\nPolish troops managed to stop the Soviet advance
\r\nJuly<\/b>
\r\n– July (from 4 July) \u2013 the Red Army launched an offensive against the Polish \r\noccupation troops in Belarus
\r\n– 6 July \u2013 TsK KP(b)LiB supported the restoration of Belarusian statehood and \r\nrecognized it possible to admit to this process the national-democratic parties standing on \r\nSoviet platform
\r\n– 11 July \u2013 end of the Polish occupation of Minsk, transfer of power to \r\nthe Minsk Province Military-Revolutionary Committee (VRK) headed by A. Chervyakov
\r\n– 12 July \u2013 the Russian SFSR and Lithuania concluded a peace treaty in Moscow, \r\nwhich recognized the right of Lithuania for Vilnius City and Region; the \r\nBelarusian ethnic territories with the cities of Grodno, Shchuchin, Oshmyany, \r\nSmorgon and Lida were recognized as part of Lithuania
\r\n– 14 July \u2013 end of the Polish occupation of Vilnius
\r\n– 19 July \u2013 end of the Polish occupation of Grodno
\r\n– 31 July \u2013 the Minsk Province Military-Revolutionary Committee and representatives \r\nof party and soviet bodies adopted the Declaration of Independence of the \r\nSoviet Socialist Republic of Belarus (the second proclamation of the SSRB)
\r\n– 31 July \u2013 the SSRB was restored within the borders of six districts of Minsk Province
\r\nAugust<\/b>
\r\n– 1 August \u2013 end of the Polish occupation
\r\n– 1 August \u2013 creation of the Military-Revolutionary Committee of SSRB headed by \r\nA. Chervyakov (existed until 13 \r\nDecember)
\r\n– 11 August \u2013 a peace treaty was concluded between the Russian SFSR and Latvia, by which \r\nLatvia received Rezhitsa and Lyutsin districts and two volosts in Drissa \r\nDistrict earlier included in Vitebsk Province
\r\n– 17 August \u2013 the Red Army began withdrawal after the \r\ncounterattack by Polish troops at Warsaw
\r\n– 17 August \u2013 negotiations between the Russian SFSR, Ukrainian SSR and \r\nPoland in Minsk (later the talks continued in Riga); neither SSRB nor BNR \r\nrepresentatives participated in the talks, because Poland and the Entente as \r\nwell as \r\nthe Russian SFSR were not interested in this
\r\n– 19 August \u2013 Polish counteroffensive and reoccupation of Brest
\r\nSeptember<\/b>
\r\n– September \u2013 reoccupation of western and southern districts of Belarus
\r\n– 21 September \u2013 peace talks between the Russian SFSR, Ukrainian SSR and Poland \r\ncontinued in Riga; the head of the Belarusian delegation A. Chervyakov put a \r\nquestion about the delegation’s admission to the talks before the head of the \r\nRussian delegation A. Ioffe but received refusal
\r\nOctober<\/b>
\r\n– 8 October 1920 \u2013 inspired by the Chief of the Polish State J. Pilsudsky, \r\ninterested in the inclusion of Vilnius into Poland, the First \r\nLithuanian-Belarusian Division of the Polish Army led by General L. Zheligovsky \r\nrose in revolt and seized Vilnius Region (the region came to Lithuania by agreement between \r\nPoland and Lithuania); the creation in this area of the Polish puppet state \r\nof Middle Lithuania with the center in Vilnius (existed until \r\nFebruary 1922)
\r\n– 12 October \u2013 signing of armistice in Riga \u2013 a preliminary peace agreement \r\nbetween the Russian SFSR and Ukrainian SSR on the one hand and Poland on the other
\r\n– 15 October \u2013 reoccupation of Minsk by Polish troops for three days
\r\n– 21 October \u2013 Conference of Socialist-Revolutionaries, Social-Democrats and \r\nSocialist-Federalists, whose delegates demanded the review of the preliminary \r\npeace agreement to establish the border between Poland and Russia on \r\nethnographic principle, the withdrawal of Polish and Russian troops from \r\nBelarusian ethnographic territory and appealed to Socialists of Poland, Russia \r\nand the whole world to support their demands
\r\nNovember<\/b>
\r\n– 6 November \u2013 the army of General S. Bulak-Balakhovich (around 20,000 men) \r\nbegan an offensive in the south of Belarus along the river Pripyat, during which \r\nthey captured Petrikov, Mozyr and Kalinkovichi. In Mozyr, Bulak-Balakhovich \r\nproclaimed himself Chief of the Belarusian State and Commander-in-Chief of all \r\nArmed Forces of Belarus and proclaimed the independence of Belarus
\r\n– 14 November (until 31 December) \u2013 an anti-Soviet rebellion in Slutsk District led \r\nby Socialist-Revolutionaries under the slogan of restoration of the BNR
\r\n– 16 November \u2013 Red Army troops began counteroffensive against Bulak-Balakhovich’s \r\ntroops, \r\nwho withdrew to the Polish side of the demarcation line
\r\n– November \u2013 the Council of the BNR moved to Kaunas
\r\nDecember<\/b>
\r\n– 13\u201317 December \u2013 the Second All-Belarusian Congress of Workers, Peasants and \r\nRed Army Soldiers Deputies ratified the Riga Preliminary Agreement of 12 \r\nOctober 1920 and confirmed the mandate delegated by the Belarusian SSR to the Russian SFSR to \r\nconclude peace on behalf of the BSSR
\r\n– 18 December \u2013 TsIK SSRB passed a resolution on the formation of the Republic’s \r\ngovernment – the Council of People’s Commissars <\/p>\r\n
\r\n– February \u2013 the second session of TsIK SSRB passed a resolution on the \r\nequality of four languages in the Belarusian Republic: Belarusian, Russian, \r\nPolish and Yiddish
\r\nMarch<\/b>
\r\n– 18 March \u2013 the Peace Treaty of Riga between the Russian SFSR (the preamble \r\nstated that the Russian government signed itself and on behalf of the \r\nBelarusian SSR) and the Ukrainian SSR on the one hand and Poland on the other, by which Poland received Western Belarus. The area of the Belarusian \r\nRepublic was limited to six districts in Minsk Province: Bobruisk, Borisov, \r\nIgumen (from 1923 \u2013 Cherven), Mozyr, and part of Minsk and Slutsk districts
\r\nSeptember<\/b>
\r\n– 25\u201328 September \u2013 the First All-Belarusian Conference in Prague \u2013 an assembly \r\nof representatives of Belarusian organizations and parties in Western Belarus, \r\nGermany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Czechoslovakia \u2013 approved the principle \r\nof independence and indivisibility of Belarus <\/p>\r\n
\r\n– 20 February \u2013 inclusion of Middle Lithuania in the Polish State
\r\nDecember<\/b>
\r\n– 30 December \u2013 the Belarusian Republic (SSRB) entered the Soviet Union<\/p>\r\n
\r\n– 15 March \u2013 the Conference of Ambassadors of the League of Nations recognized the \r\neastern borders of Poland with Soviet Russia and Lithuania
\r\nNovember<\/b>
\r\n– the Council of the BNR moved to Prague<\/p>\r\n
\r\n– the first enlargement of the Belarusian Republic; returning of Vitebsk, Gomel \r\nand Smolensk provinces with Belarusian majority, the total area \u2013 110, 500 \r\nsq km, population \u2013 around 4, 2 million people<\/p>\r\n
\r\n– 12\u201316 November \u2013 the Second All-Belarusian Conference in Berlin \u2013 a conference \r\nof Belarusian political figures in exile \u2013 recognized Minsk as the only center \r\nof the nation-state revival in Belarus <\/p>\r\n
\r\n– 11 April \u2013 the Eighth All-Belarusian Congress of Soviets of Workers, Peasants \r\nand Red Army Soldiers Deputies renamed the Socialist Soviet Republic of Belarus \r\n(SSRB) as the Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic (BSSR)
\r\nDecember<\/b>
\r\n– the second enlargement of the Belarusian Republic; returning of Rechitsa and \r\nGomel districts, the total area \u2013 125, 900 sq km, population \u2013 around 5 \r\nmillion people<\/p>\r\n
\r\n– 17 September \u2013 the Red Army crossed the Soviet-Polish border and occupied the \r\narea of Western Belarus, Vilnius City and Region\r\n <\/p>\r\n
\r\nOctober<\/b>
\r\n– 10 October \u2013 the Lithuanian Republic and the USSR signed an agreement \r\ntransferring Vilnius City and Region to the Lithuanian Republic, by which \r\nLithuania received 6, 900 sq km of the area of the Belarusian SSR, and in August \r\nand November 1940 over 2, 600 sq km
\r\n– 28\u201330 October \u2013 the People’s Assembly of Western Belarus in Bialystok adopted the \r\nDeclaration on Soviet Power and Reunification of Western Belarus with the \r\nBelarusian SSR
\r\nNovember<\/b>
\r\n– Western Belarus joined the Belarusian SSR; the establishment of five \r\nadministrative regions \r\n(oblasts) with 101 districts (raions): Baranovichi \u2013 26, Bialystok \u2013 24, Brest \u2013 18, \r\nVileika \u2013 22, Pinsk \u2013 11, the total area \u2013 225, 000 sq km, population \u2013 \r\nabout 11 million people
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