Russians

East Slavic ethnic group native to Russia

7 dated entries naming Russians, drawn from 7 separate years between 1502 CE and 1892 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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16th century

1502April 14 – The formal coronation of Ivan the Great as Grand Prince of Moscow (encompassing most of the Russian people's territory) to reflect that he is the nation's sole ruler. Ivan had been co-ruler of Moscow from 1449 to 1462, ruler from 1462 to 1471 and 1490 to 1498, and co-ruler with his eldest son (Ivan the Young, 1471-1490) and his grandson, Dmitry Ivanovich from 1498 onward.source
1575Russians occupy Pernau in western Estonia, and the fortress of Weissenstein.source

17th century

1673Archpriest Petrovich Avvakum writes his Zhitie (Life), as the first Russian autobiography.source

18th century

1737June 30 – Russo-Turkish War, 1735-1739: Russian forces under Field Marshal Munnich storm the Ottoman fortress of Ochakov, and take prisoner 4,000 Turks.source
1743August 24 – The War of the Hats: The Swedish army surrendered to the Russians in Helsinki, ending the war and starting Lesser Wrath.source

19th century

1826February 23 – Russian mathematician Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky develops non-Euclidean geometry (independently of János Bolyai).source
1892Viruses are first described by Russian biologist Dmitri Ivanovsky.source

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