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Timeline Number: 783
Event Date: 7-7-1762
Event Description: Czar Peter the 3rd of Russia is informed by a courtier that his wife Catherine is plotting to depose him. She is arrested and the Imperial Guard is purged of her strongest adherents. It is later learned that the informant was given the news by a palace servant who hated the Czarina for her cruelty toward him.
Timeline Number: 783
Event Date: 8-6-1762
Event Description: Catherine and several of her followers are beheaded for treason against the Czar. Her son Paul is declared illegitimate; the deposed former Czar Ivan the 6th is named heir to the throne.
Timeline Number: 783
Event Date: 8-10-1762
Event Description: To punish the aristocracy, which he believes mostly enthusiastically backed Catherine out of all the classes, the Czar abolishes serfdom. Furthermore, boyars (nobles) who favored her lose their estates, which are to be divided among the peasants.
Timeline Number: 783
Event Date: 5-23-1763
Event Description: The Czar remarries, this time to a Danish princess.
Timeline Number: 783
Event Date: 9-4-1763
Event Description: The Czar dies of ill health (probably pneumonia), and is succeeded by Ivan. The new Czar orders the court to remove all traces of his late cousin and enemy the Empress Elizabeth Petrovna. Her commands are reviewed and only sanctioned if they demonstrated practical merit.
Timeline Number: 783
Event Date: 6-1-1764
Event Description: Czar Ivan marries his predecessor's widow. She is rumored to already be pregnant.
Timeline Number: 783
Event Date: 1-10-1768
Event Description: Russia invades Poland with 190,000 men, spearheaded by the Cossacks. Lvov falls immediately to the offensive.
Timeline Number: 783
Event Date: 1-31-1768
Event Description: The Russian army takes Lublin, sacking it. Czar Ivan vows to conquer as much of Poland as possible.
Timeline Number: 783
Event Date: 5-1-1768
Event Description: The Russians defeat the Poles at Kielce, taking the city. Czar Ivan proclaims the emancipation of all Polish serfs who swear fealty to him.
Timeline Number: 783
Event Date: 7-10-1768
Event Description: The Russians crush a combined Austrian-Polish army under King Stanislav the 2nd and Holy Roman Emperor Joseph the 2nd. The city of Krakow is captured.
Timeline Number: 783
Event Date: 7-27-1768
Event Description: The Russians seize control of Radom, while a Cossack force annihilates a poorly-trained peasant army of serfs recently freed by their lords to fight for Poland.
Timeline Number: 783
Event Date: 8-6-1768
Event Description: The fall of Lodz to the Russians prompts King Frederick the Great of Prussia to propose a truce to end the Russo-Polish War before it escalates. He suggests that Poland be reduced to Warsaw and its vicinity, while the rest of the country is partitioned between her neighbors.
Timeline Number: 783
Event Date: 8-24-1768
Event Description: The Treaty of Bytom formally ends the Polish War. King Stanislav abdicates rather than rule a "mere city-state". Catherine's natural son Pavel Orlov is chosen to govern Warsaw as Grand Duke.
Timeline Number: 783
Event Date: 12-23-1768
Event Description: The French offer the Austrians a formal, permanent alliance in order to weaken the Russian threat.
Timeline Number: 783
Event Date: 4-3-1769
Event Description: Czar Ivan issues an edict barring women from the succession. They may not even be regents. They also may not hold public office or inherit titles.
Timeline Number: 783
Event Date: 4-1-1770
Event Description: Warsaw rebels against Grand Duke Paul and he is ripped apart by a mob.
Timeline Number: 783
Event Date: 4-10-1770
Event Description: The Russians sack Warsaw and burn it to the ground. The city's population is relocated to Siberia.
Timeline Number: 783
Event Date: 4-22-1770
Event Description: Austria declares war on Russia. Emperor Joseph the 2nd invades Russian Poland with 180,000 troops. The Russian Cossacks begin to harass him.
Timeline Number: 783
Event Date: 8-11-1770
Event Description: The Russians under General Emelyan Pugachev defeat the Austrian army at Krakow. Joseph himself is killed in the battle and succeeded by his brother Leopold.
Timeline Number: 783
Event Date: 11-6-1770
Event Description: Russia invades the Austrian-held province of Galicia. Lvov falls to the Russians immediately.
Timeline Number: 783
Event Date: 3-1-1771
Event Description: The Russians take Pressburg, vanquishing an Austrian army of 63,000.
Timeline Number: 783
Event Date: 3-9-1771
Event Description: Budapest, Hungary, falls to the Russians. It is declared a sovereign Kingdom under a Russian prince. Prussia declares war on Austria.
Timeline Number: 783
Event Date: 3-22-1771
Event Description: The Prussian army under King Frederick the Great captures Prague, Bohemia. That province also becomes an independent nation.
Timeline Number: 783
Event Date: 4-7-1771
Event Description: France declares war on Prussia and Russia. King Louis the 15th warns the British not to interfere.
Timeline Number: 783
Event Date: 4-26-1771
Event Description: Worried about the growing Russian threat, the Brits surprisingly propose an alliance with France and Austria against the Russo-Prussian coalition.
Timeline Number: 783
Event Date: 5-13-1771
Event Description: The Russians capture the Bohemian city of Brno from the Hapsburgs.
Timeline Number: 783
Event Date: 5-31-1771
Event Description: King Frederick the Great overwhelms a French army at Hannover, taking the electorate held by the British King.
Timeline Number: 783
Event Date: 6-19-1771
Event Description: The Siege of Vienna begins, with the Austrians forced to defend their capital against the Russians and Prussians.
Timeline Number: 783
Event Date: 11-30-1771
Event Description: Vienna falls to the allied invaders. Emperor Leopold flees to Innsbruck.
Timeline Number: 783
Event Date: 12-21-1771
Event Description: The Battle of Innsbruck ends the Austrian phase of the war, with the Hapsburgs forced to surrender after losing 48,000 men. The Austrian Empire is stripped of its Central European provinces.
Timeline Number: 783
Event Date: 2-3-1772
Event Description: The British army is crushed by Frederick the Great in the 2nd Battle of Hannover. General John Burgoyne of the British Army is killed in the engagement.
Timeline Number: 783
Event Date: 2-28-1772
Event Description: An Anglo-French army is smashed by the Prussians at Koblenz.
Timeline Number: 783
Event Date: 6-2-1772
Event Description: France is forced to sue for peace. Prussia requires that the French give Corsica to a Hohenzollern prince. Russia takes Alsace-Lorraine- the 1st Russian territory in Western Europe.
Timeline Number: 783
Event Date: 12-7-1772
Event Description: Great Britain wins a major naval battle against the much weaker Russian navy.
Timeline Number: 783
Event Date: 10-6-1773
Event Description: Prussia and Great Britain sign a peace treaty at Copenhagen, Denmark.
Timeline Number: 783
Event Date: 5-6-1774
Event Description: The Russians crush a British force at the 3rd and final Battle of Hannover. The British, in turn, defeat another Russian fleet at Goteborg.
Timeline Number: 783
Event Date: 8-5-1776
Event Description: Czar Ivan the 6th of Russia is the first European ruler to recognize the new United States of America. He offers the Continental Congress a formal military alliance.
Timeline Number: 783
Event Date: 8-24-1776
Event Description: Congress accepts the Czar's offer.
Timeline Number: 783
Event Date: 1-2-1777
Event Description: 65,000 Russian troops land in Russian North America, preparing to cross overland to invade Canada and thereby weaken the British position in North America.
Timeline Number: 783
Event Date: 4-28-1777
Event Description: The Russian army, lighter by 10,000 men due to cold, frostbite, and pneumonia, arrives in Upper Canada ready to attack, despite the leanness of its ranks.
Timeline Number: 783
Event Date: 5-4-1777
Event Description: The Russians engage the British army at London, Upper Canada. 3,000 Englishmen and 5,000 Russians are killed, but since the Russian force vastly outnumbered the British presence to begin with, it is His Majesty King George's men who have to retreat, having lost half their strength.
Timeline Number: 783
Event Date: 5-9-1777
Event Description: The Russians take Ottawa, Upper Canada. Toronto is greatly jeopardized as well.
Timeline Number: 783
Event Date: 5-17-1777
Event Description: The Russians smash a Huron war party at the St. Lawrence River. The Hurons are wiped out.
Timeline Number: 783
Event Date: 5-23-1777
Event Description: The Russian army crushes the remaining British regiments in Upper Canada and prepares to invade Lower Canada (Quebec). 1,500+ English soldiers are killed.
Timeline Number: 783
Event Date: 6-4-1777
Event Description: Quebec City, Quebec, surrenders to the Russian invaders. With the American occupation of Montreal, the British regime in Canada is limited to Newfoundland, Labrador, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and Cape Breton Island. These are all in danger of being overrun.
Timeline Number: 783
Event Date: 6-10-1777
Event Description: A British relief force under General Sir Barry St. Leger is crushed by the Russian Cossacks under Count Emelyan Pugachev.
Timeline Number: 783
Event Date: 6-29-1777
Event Description: The British are forced to withdraw to New York, in order to defend it from the immediate menace presented by the Imperial Russian Army. Philadelphia is evacuated by the Brits, allowing General George Washington and his Continental Army to retake it and pursue General Howe.
Timeline Number: 783
Event Date: 7-24-1777
Event Description: The British army having massed together at Albany, the Russians enclose from the North, and Washington bypasses New York City to cut off the South. General Howe is trapped.
Timeline Number: 783
Event Date: 7-31-1777
Event Description: A week-long siege and artillery bombardment, General Howe surrenders his entire army, including some 6,000 Hessian mercenaries, 10,000 Iroquois and Algonquian braves, and 8,000 Loyalists, to the Russo-American coalition.
Timeline Number: 783
Event Date: 8-13-1777
Event Description: News of Howe's surrender hits Parliament and King George the 3rd like a stroke. Lord North is forced to resign, and the Whigs regain power under the Marquis of Rockingham. Edmund Burke strong urges the new cabinet to sue for peace.
Timeline Number: 783
Event Date: 8-23-1777
Event Description: The Rockingham ministry sends an indirect message to the United States Continental Congress, through Dr. Benjamin Franklin, the American delegate in St. Petersburg. Franklin makes it clear that the Russians are not to left out of the negotiations, as "they have helped the American cause so completely".
Timeline Number: 783
Event Date: 12-5-1777
Event Description: The Treaty of St. Petersburg ends the War of American Indpendence with a Russo-American victory. The USA is recognized as a sovereign nation, the bulk of Canada is awarded to Russia, and the rest of it becomes American soil. The USA also gets Florida, held by the British since the Treaty of Paris ending the French and Indian War (aka the Seven Years' War).
Timeline Number: 783
Event Date: 5-12-1791
Event Description: Russia offers of sell all Russian holdings in America that it gained from Britain, to the United States. President Washington accepts Russia's terms.
Timeline Number: 783
Event Date: 8-1-1791
Event Description: Congress creates the Greater Northwest Territory out of the newly purchased land. It is expected to be subdivided, and there is some question as to whether it will permit slavery, or not.
Timeline Number: 783
Event Date: 1-8-1792
Event Description: Congress votes to ban slavery in the new territories, and with the cotton gin yet to be popularized in the South, there is little objection from Dixie. People everywhere still expect slavery to be eventually eliminated.
Timeline Number: 783
Event Date: 8-30-1792
Event Description: Ivan dies, and is succeeded by Pugachev, who becomes Czar Ivan the 7th. The new Russian Emperor proposes liberal constitutional reforms, such as trial by jury, habeas corpus, and a freely elected Zemsky Sobor (National Council). The voting is limited to men above 16 years old.
Timeline Number: 783
Event Date: 4-1-1793
Event Description: The Zemsky Sobor institutes a new Constitution of the Russian Empire, which makes the Czar a constitutional monarch rather than a despot. It guarantees free speech, free assembly, free press, and religious liberty.
Timeline Number: 783
Event Date: 5-1-1793
Event Description: Czar Ivan the 7th marries the daughter of Peter the 3rd, who was born in 1765. She is a widow, having been the Queen of Poland as the wife of Pavel Orlov, Catherine's natural son. Orlov was assassinated in 1790 by Polish patriot Count Casimir Pulaski.
Timeline Number: 783
Event Date: 3-20-1794
Event Description: Empress Natalya, wife of Czar Ivan the 7th, gives birth to a healthy baby boy. He is named Michael, or Mikhail, and is the blood link between the Pugachev and Romanov dynasties.
Timeline Number: 783
Event Date: 9-1-1794
Event Description: The Treaty of Sevastopol formally establishes an alliance between Russia and the United States, considered necessary due to the chaos in France. King Louis the 16th is at war with the Comte de Artois, his own brother, for the throne. Artois claims that the King had a different father than the grandson of Louis the 15th.
Timeline Number: 783
Event Date: 6-1-1795
Event Description: Artois wins the French Civil War, deposing the King and installing a somewhat more liberal regime than his predecessor's, but only by degrees. He orders the taxation of the 2nd Estate, but lacks the courage to tax the 1st Estate (the Church).
Timeline Number: 783
Event Date: 6-26-1795
Event Description: The States-General votes to formally crown Artois King Louis the 17th of France.
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