Grand Embassy of Peter the Great
1697–1698 · Event
Peter tours western Europe incognito as 'Peter Mikhailov', working in Dutch and English shipyards and recruiting hundreds of specialists — the study trip that set the course of Russia's westernisation.
On these timelines: Peter the Great's Revolution, Russia & the USSR, Master
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- Battle of Poltava (1709)
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- The tsarevich dies in the fortress (1718)
- Peter the Great's Westernisation of Russia (1698)
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Around 1697
- Siege of Vienna (1683) (1683)
- Salem witch trials (1692)
- 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)
- Peter the Great (1672)