Peter the Great

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  • Date of birth

    Date of birth

    Peter the Great was born in 1672. Peter was tsar of Russia from 1682 to 1725. His self-given title was Peter the Great however he was authoritatively Peter I. He was the most youthful child of Alexey I and his second spouse, Natalya Naryshkina.
  • Netherlands and England sign peace of westminster

    Netherlands and England sign peace of westminster

    The Treaty of Westminster of 1674 was the peace bargain that finished the Third Anglo-Dutch War. Marked by the Netherlands and England, it accommodated the arrival of the state of New Netherland to England and reestablished the Treaty of Breda of 1667. It additionally accommodated a blended commission for the direction of business, especially in the East Indies.
  • Peter was chosen by the Boyar Duma as heir over his other half-brother, Ivan

    Peter was chosen by the Boyar Duma as heir over his other half-brother, Ivan

    he was 10
  • Explorer Robert Cavelier de la salle is killed

    Explorer Robert Cavelier de la salle is killed

    In October 1686, La Salle took a little group of men and went up the Lavaca River attempting to find the Mississippi. The greater part of the men died. A moment group set out yet a couple of months after the fact, a revolt ejected and five men assaulted and killed La Salle on March 19, 1687.
  • The Great Embassy

    The Great Embassy

    1697-1698
  • The treaty of Karlowitz is signed

    The treaty of Karlowitz is signed

    Treaty of Karlowitz, was a peace settlement that finished dangers (1683–99) between the Ottoman Empire and the Holy League (Austria, Poland, Venice, and Russia) and exchanged Transylvania and a lot of Hungary from Turkish control to Austrian. The bargain essentially lessened Turkish impact in east-focal Europe and made Austria the predominant power there.
  • Peter led his forces in their first major encounter with the swedes at Narva

    Peter led his forces in their first major encounter with the swedes at Narva

    Pete the Great's choice to join the Great Northern War when he did seemed, by all accounts, to be a cataclysmic error. In the same way as other of his antecedents, the Tsar was resolved to access the Baltic. His way to the ocean was hindered by the Swedes, who possessed Finland and the isthmus of Karelia, and Ingria, Estonia and Livonia toward the south.
  • The death of Aurangzeb

    The death of Aurangzeb

  • First successful European porcelain

    First successful European porcelain

  • Peter had to divert some of his troops to the south.

    Peter had to divert some of his troops to the south.

    The Turks, encounter Sweden, had attack Russia
  • Peter married Catherine becomes public

    Peter married Catherine becomes public

    Peter married Catherine with nobody knowing, but they didn't made it public until 1712
  • Peter abolished the post of patriarch

    Peter abolished the post of patriarch

  • Easter island is found

    Easter island is found

  • Peter's son bypasses him

    Peter's son bypasses him

  • Peter's health begins to fail rapidly

    Peter's health begins to fail rapidly

  • Date of death

    Date of death

    St. Petersburg