Bakunin, Mikhail Alexandrovich

Well-known Russian revolutionary, and often considered one of the "fathers of modern anarchism"

1914 - Born on the 18th of May in Premukhino, Tver Province, Russia.

1832 - Finished his studies at Artillery University.

1834 - Commissioned a junior officer in the Russian Imperial Guard and sent to Minsk and Gardinas in Lithuania.

1835 - Conceived of forming a philosphical circle in his home town of Pryamukhino.

1840 - Bakunin went to Berlin.

1842 - Wrote an essay The Reaction in Germany,argued in favor of the revolutionary role of negation, summed up in the phrase.

1844 - Went to Paris, then a centre for European radicalism.

1848 - Remained on friendly terms with the German communists.

1851 - Bakunin was handed over to the Russian authorities.

1857 - Allowed to go into permanent exile in the western Siberian city of Tomsk.

1861 - Left Irkutsk under cover of company business, ostensibly employed by a Siberian merchant to make a trip to Nikolaevsk.

1862 - Joined the revolutionary leaders AleksHerzen and Nicholas Ogarev in London.

1863 - He joined a revolutionary expedition that was to aid a Polish insurrection against the Czar.

1864 - Traveled to Italy, where he first began to develop his anarchist ideas.

1867-1868 - Bakunin got the membership card of the League of Peace and Freedom.

1871 - Bakunin was a strong supporter of the Paris Commune which was brutally suppressed by the French government.

1872 - Bakunin's disagreements with Marx led him for expulsion.

1876 - Bakunin died in Bern, Switzerland, on 1st of July.

His lifelong friend Herzen once remarked about Bakunin: "This man was born not under an ordinary star, but under a comet."