Catherine the Great's reign
1762–1796 · Event
Enlightened-absolutist empress; Russia expands hugely (Crimea 1783, partitions of Poland) and becomes a great European power.
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- Christianisation of Kievan Rus' (988)
- Napoleon's invasion of Russia (1812)
Around 1762
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- Presidency of George Washington (1789)
- Industrial Revolution (1760)
- Industrial Revolution begins (1760)
- American Revolution (1775)
- American Revolutionary War (1775)
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769)
- Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations (1776)
- Watt's separate-condenser steam engine patent (1769)