RUSSIAN EMPIRE (1689-1825) |
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| 1689-1725 |
Peter I, the Great |
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| 1695 |
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| 1696 July 18 |
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| 1697 |
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| 1697-1698 |
- Peter's visit to the West
- Revolt of Streltsy crushed
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| 1700 |
- Suspension of the patriarchate
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| 1700-1721 |
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| 1703 |
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| May |
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| 1704 |
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| 1707-1708 |
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| 1708 |
- Establishment of the guberniias (provinces)
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| 1709 |
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| 1710 |
- First census (household and tax)
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| 1711 |
- First press in St. Petersburg
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| November 19 |
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| 1713 |
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| 1716-1717 |
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| 1718 |
- Institution of poll tax
- Foundation of administrative colleges
- Tsarevich Alexis flees abroad, his father pronounces his verdict upon him; tsarevich Alexis dies under torture
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| 1720 |
- Pososhkov's book On Poverty and Wealth
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| 1721 |
- Holy Synod replaces patriarchate
- Treaty of Nystad: Livonia, Estonia, Karelia, Ingria acquired from Sweden
- Peter assumes the title of emperor
- Organization of state postal service
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| 1722 |
- Table of Ranks established
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| 1725 |
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| 1725-1727 |
Catherine I Skavronska |
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| 1727-1730 |
Peter II Romanov |
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| 1728 |
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| 1725-1729 |
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| 1730 |
- Struggle over the terms of the succession
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| 1730-1740 |
Anna Ioannovna |
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| 1741 |
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| 1740-1741 |
Ivan VI Romanov |
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| 1741-1762 |
Elizabeth Romanova |
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- About Elizabeth Petrovna [1] [2]
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| 1746 |
- Ban of purchase of serfs by non-nobles
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| 1750 |
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| 1753 |
- Decree abolishing internal customs
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| 1754-1762 |
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| 1755 |
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| 1760's |
- Fonvizin's comedies The Brigadier, The General and The Minor
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| 1760 |
- Landowners granted right to exile serfs to Siberia
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| 1761-1762 |
Peter III Romanov |
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| 1762 |
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| 1762-1796 |
Catherine II the Great von Anhalt-Zerbst |
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| 1764-67 |
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| 1764 |
- Final secularization of Church lands
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| 1765 |
- Establishment of the Free Economic Society
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| 1767 |
- Peasants forbidden to submit complaints against their landowners
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| 1767-1768 |
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| 1769-1794 |
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| 1772 |
- First partition of Poland--Belorussia annexed to Russia
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| 1773-1775 |
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| 1774 |
- Treaty of Kuchuk-Kainardji
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| 1775 |
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| 1780's |
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| 1781-1786 |
- Full absorption of the Ukraine into Russian Empire
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| 1782-1785 |
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| 1783 |
- Incorporation of the Crimea
- Private printing presses permitted
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| 1784 |
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| 1785 April 21 |
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| 1790 |
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| 1793 |
- Second Partition of Poland
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| 1795 |
- Third Partition of Poland
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| 1796 |
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| 1796-1801 |
Paul I Romanov |
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| 1797 |
- Establishment of the three-day barshchina
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| 1799 |
- Russo-American Trading Company formed
- Suvorov's campaign in northern Italy and Switzerland
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| June 6 |
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| 1801 |
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| 1801-1825 |
Alexander I Romanov |
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| 1801 |
- Acquisition of eastern Georgia
- Sale of serfs without land prohibited
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| 1802 |
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| 1806 |
- Conquest of Daghestan and Baku
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| 1806-1815 |
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| 1807-1811 |
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| 1809 |
- Krylov's Fables
- Annexation of Finland
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| 1812 June 24 |
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| August 26 |
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| September 14 |
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| October 19 |
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| 1813-1814 |
- Alexander's pursuit of Napoleon to Paris
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| 1815-1825 |
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| 1816-1819 |
- Abolition of serfdom in Baltic provinces
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| 1817 |
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| 1817-1857 |
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| 1818 |
- Karamzin's History of the Russian State
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| 1819 |
- University of St. Petersburg founded
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| 1819-1829 |
- The Italian Rossi builds the General Staff Building on Palace Square
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| 1821 |
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