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On the same day, Augustus II, King of Poland, and Peter the Great, Tsar of Russia, enter the war against Sweden.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366570351#July–September", "title": "1700", "revid": 1366570351, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1700, "year_label": "1700 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "November 30", "text": "November 30 (November 19 O.S.; November 20 Swedish calendar) – Battle of Narva in Estonia: Having led his army of 8,000 on a forced march from Denmark to Estonia, Charles XII of Sweden routs the huge Russian army.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366570351#October–December", "title": "1700", "revid": 1366570351, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1702, "year_label": "1702 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "March 22", "text": "March 22 (March 11 Old Style) – The first regular English-language national newspaper, The Daily Courant, begins publication on Fleet Street in the City of London, initially by Elizabeth Mallet; it covers only foreign news.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362986314#January–March", "title": "1702", "revid": 1362986314, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1703, "year_label": "1703 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": "December 7", "text": "December 7–10 (November 26–29 O.S.) – The Great Storm of 1703, an extratropical cyclone, ravages southern England and the English Channel, killing at least 8,000, mostly at sea. 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It is largely promoted by George Parker, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1351037611#April–June", "title": "1751", "revid": 1351037611, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1770, "year_label": "1770 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "August 1", "text": "August 1 (July 21 O.S.) – Russo-Turkish War (1768–74) – Battle of Kagul: Russian commander Pyotr Rumyantsev routs 150,000 Turks.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368310921#July–_September", "title": "1770", "revid": 1368310921, "section": "Events › July– September"}}, {"year": 1774, "year_label": "1774 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "June 20", "text": "June 20 (June 9 O.S.) – Russo-Turkish War (1768–1774): Battle of Kozludzha – The Imperial Russian Army, led by Alexander Suvorov, routs numerically superior Ottoman Empire forces.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369560805#April–June", "title": "1774", "revid": 1369560805, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1780, "year_label": "1780 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "March 11", "text": "March 11 – The First League of Armed Neutrality is formed by Russia with Denmark and Sweden to try to prevent the British Royal Navy from searching neutral vessels for contraband (February 28 O.S.).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370564554#January–March", "title": "1780", "revid": 1370564554, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1802, "year_label": "1802 CE", "section": "Births", "date": "July 5", "text": "July 5 (June 23 O.S.) – Pavel Nakhimov, Russian admiral (d. 1855)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1341741915#July–December", "title": "1802", "revid": 1341741915, "section": "Births › July–December"}}, {"year": 1820, "year_label": "1820 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "January 27", "text": "January 27 (NS, January 15 OS) – An Imperial Russian Navy expedition, led by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen in Vostok with Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev, sights the Antarctic ice sheet.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368795492#January–March", "title": "1820", "revid": 1368795492, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1853, "year_label": "1853 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "November 30", "text": "November 30 (November 18 O.S.) – Crimean War: Battle of Sinop – The Russian fleet destroys the Turkish fleet.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1352708271#October–December", "title": "1853", "revid": 1352708271, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1855, "year_label": "1855 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "July 12", "text": "July 12 (June 30 O.S.) – Pavel Nakhimov, Russian admiral (b. 1802)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1358982600#July–December", "title": "1855", "revid": 1358982600, "section": "Deaths › July–December"}}, {"year": 1855, "year_label": "1855 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "September 9", "text": "September 9 (August 28 O.S.) – Crimean War: Siege of Sevastopol (1854–1855) – Sevastopol falls to French and British troops.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1358982600#July–September", "title": "1855", "revid": 1358982600, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1857, "year_label": "1857 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "September 22", "text": "September 22 (September 10 O.S.) – Russian ship of the line Lefort sinks in the Gulf of Finland during a sudden squall with the loss of 826 lives; 30 other ships are wrecked in the same storm.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366379985#July–September", "title": "1857", "revid": 1366379985, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1859, "year_label": "1859 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "January 24", "text": "January 24 (O. 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Russia however regards the treaty as a preliminary one only, refusing on March 25 a British proposal to lay it before a European congress, and matters are finally settled in July's Treaty of Berlin.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365252865#March", "title": "1878", "revid": 1365252865, "section": "Events › March"}}, {"year": 1893, "year_label": "1893 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "October 28", "text": "October 28 (October 16 O.S.) – In Saint Petersburg (Russia), Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky conducts the first performance of his Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Pathétique, nine days before his death.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369946190#October", "title": "1893", "revid": 1369946190, "section": "Events › October"}}, {"year": 1899, "year_label": "1899 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "November 7", "text": "November 7 – (October 26 Old Style) – Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya receives its Russian metropolitan première at the Moscow Art Theatre.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371393177#November", "title": "1899", "revid": 1371393177, "section": "Events › November"}}, {"year": 1905, "year_label": "1905 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "January 22", "text": "January 22 (January 9 O.S.) – The Bloody Sunday massacre of peaceful Russian demonstrators at the Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg takes place, leading to an unsuccessful uprising.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373341358#January", "title": "1905", "revid": 1373341358, "section": "Events › January"}}, {"year": 1905, "year_label": "1905 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "October 29", "text": "October 29 (October 16 O.S.) – In the Russian Empire:", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373341358#October", "title": "1905", "revid": 1373341358, "section": "Events › October"}}, {"year": 1908, "year_label": "1908 CE", "section": "Science & Discovery", "date": "June 30", "text": "June 30 (June 17 OS) – The Tunguska event near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Siberia, Russian Empire, is believed to have been caused by the air burst of a large meteoroid or comet fragment, at an altitude of 5 – 10 above the Earth's surface.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373410903#June", "title": "1908", "revid": 1373410903, "section": "Events › June"}}, {"year": 1912, "year_label": "1912 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "January 18", "text": "January 18 (Old Style January 5) – Prague Conference: Vladimir Lenin and the Bolshevik Party break away from the rest of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373503730#January", "title": "1912", "revid": 1373503730, "section": "Events › January"}}, {"year": 1913, "year_label": "1913 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": "May 26", "text": "May 26 (May 13 O.S.) – Igor Sikorsky becomes the first person to pilot a 4-engine fixed-wing aircraft.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373505613#May", "title": "1913", "revid": 1373505613, "section": "Events › May"}}, {"year": 1916, "year_label": "1916 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "August 17", "text": "August 17 (August 4 O.S.) – WWI: The Treaty of Bucharest is signed secretly between Romania and the Entente Powers, stipulating the conditions under which Romania agrees to join the war on their side, particularly territorial promises in Austria-Hungary.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373519106#August", "title": "1916", "revid": 1373519106, "section": "Events › August"}}, {"year": 1916, "year_label": "1916 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "December 30", "text": "December 30 – (December 17 Old Style) – The mystic Grigori Rasputin is murdered in Saint Petersburg.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373519106#December", "title": "1916", "revid": 1373519106, "section": "Events › December"}}]}