Full Name: Pyotr Alexeyevich
Profession: RussianTsar

Nationality:

Biography: Expanded the Tsardom into a huge empire and a major European power.

Throughout his reign he was very interested in shipbuilding and maritime power.

Born:June 9,1672
Birthplace: Moscow, Russia
Star Sign:Gemini

Died:February 8,1725 (aged 52)
Cause of Death: Gangrenous bladder

• 1682-06-29 Sofia Alekseyevna names herself regent of Russia for her brothers Ivan V and half-brother Peter I
• 1696-07-19 Russian Tsar Peter I's fleet occupies the southern mouth of the Don River and gains access to the Sea of Azov, after the surrender of the Ottoman Azov garrison
• 1698-01-07 Russian Tsar Peter the Great departs Netherlands for England
• 1698-08-18 Russian Tsar Peter the Great arrives in Zaandam
• 1698-08-25 Tsar Peter the Great returns to Moscow after trip through Western Europe
• 1698-09-05 Russian Tsar Peter the Great imposes a tax on beards
• 1699-12-20 Russian Tsar Peter the Great ordered Russian New Year changed from Sept 1 to Jan 1
• 1703-05-27 Saint Petersburg (Leningrad) founded by Russian Tsar Peter the Great
• 1707-09-15 Ferenc Rákóczi II, Prince of Transylvania and Tsar Peter the Great sign social security agreement
• 1709-06-27 Great Northern War: Peter the Great of Russia defeatsCharles XII of Sweden at the Battle of Poltava; Charles goes into exile in Bender, Ottoman Empire
• 1710-01-27 Tsar Peter the Great sets first Russian state budget
• 1711-08-01 After being surrounded Tsar Peter the Great flees Azov
• 1716-11-03 Treaty signed ending the Polish civil war between the Tarnogrów confederates and Saxon forces led by Augustus II. Tsar Peter the Great's influence and support for Augustus II leads to the Silent Sejm and Russian involvement.
• 1721-01-25 Tsar Peter the Great makes the Moscow patriarchate and Russian Orthodox Church subordinate to the state
• 1721-10-22 Tsar Peter the Great titles himself "Emperor of All Russia"
• 1722-01-24 Tsar Peter the Great begins civil system
• 1724-01-28 The Russian Academy of Sciences founded in St. Petersburg by Peter the Great, and implemented in a Senate decree. Called St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences until 1917.
• 1772-04-06Catherine the Great Empress of Russia, ends tax on men with beards, enacted by Tsar Peter the Great in 1698
• 2022-06-09 Russian leaderVladimir Putin compares himself to Tsar Peter the Great, who conquered the Baltic coast, at an exhibition to the Tsar in Moscow

• 1712-02-19 Russian Tsar Peter the Great officially marries Polish-Lithuanian pre-marriedeasant Martha Skavronskaya at Saint Isaac's Cathedral in Saint Petersburg, having earlier married in secret in 1707

• "I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself."

• 550th anniversary of the Polish Parliamentarism -Kancelaria Sejmu
• ‘Taking it back’: Vladimir Putin likens self to Peter the Great -Al Jazeera

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