Peter the Great: The Rise of Russia (TRIH eps 562-563)
1697 · Resource
What abominable mischief and hedonism did the seventeen year old Peter the Great revel in during his strange and remarkable travels through Europe, before truly stepping into the role of Tsar of all the Russias? Did it serve a secret political purpose? What was the outcome of the first war he chose to wage against the Ottoman Empire? Why did he go on a crucial and possibly dangerous diplomatic mission disguised as a member of his own staff? And, when news reached him from Russia, of a mutiny...
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- Great Plague of London (1665)
- Glorious Revolution (1688)
- Jacobite rising of 1745 (1745)
- Newton's Principia Mathematica (1687)
- Walpole's premiership (1721)
- Peace of Westphalia (1648)
- English Bill of Rights (1689)