Battle of Poltava
1709 · Event
Peter the Great's decisive victory over Charles XII of Sweden; the turning point of the Great Northern War and of Russia's rise.
On these timelines: Peter the Great's Revolution, Russia & the USSR, Master, Scandinavia, the Nordic World & the Viking Age
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Around 1709
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- Glorious Revolution (1688)
- Salem witch trials (1692)
- Great Plague of London (1665)
- Jacobite rising of 1745 (1745)
- Seven Years' War (1756)
- Newton's Principia Mathematica (1687)
- Walpole's premiership (1721)
- English Bill of Rights (1689)
- Peter the Great (1672)