Peter the Great: Bloodbath in the Kremlin (TRIH ep 563, part 2)
1697 · Resource
Hosts Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook continue their multi-part series on Peter the Great, focusing on the tsar's late-1690s activities: his domestic consolidation, the formation and antics of his 'Jolly Company', naval ambitions and the capture of Azov, and his unprecedented Grand Embassy to Western Europe (including visits to Riga, the Dutch shipyards at Zaandam and Amsterdam, and England).
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Around 1697
- Glorious Revolution (1688)
- Age of Enlightenment (1685)
- Reign of Peter the Great (1682)
- Great Plague of London (1665)
- Jacobite rising of 1745 (1745)
- Salem witch trials (1692)
- Siege of Vienna (1683) (1683)
- Newton's Principia Mathematica (1687)
- Walpole's premiership (1721)
- Peace of Westphalia (1648)