Peter the Great Becomes Tsar
April 27, 1682
On the death of his half-brother Fyodor III, the ten-year-old Peter was crowned co-tsar of Russia with his disabled half-brother Ivan V, under the regency of their formidable half-sister Sophia. Peter would spend the next years playing war games and building toy boats. Russia had no idea what was coming.
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Before and after in Europe
- Before: 1681: Comet Kirch
- After: July 14, 1683: Siege of Vienna Begins
Before and after in Politics
Era
Enlightenment (1651–1800), one of 696 events from that era on Saeculum.
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