Battle of Poltava
July 8, 1709
On a Ukrainian plain, Peter the Great's reformed Russian army shattered Charles XII of Sweden in a single morning. The Swedish king fled to the Ottomans; Russia stepped onto the European stage as a great power for the first time in its history. The balance of the North had turned.
In context
Also in 1709 (3 other events on record)
- Abraham Darby Smelts Iron with Coke · Europe · Science
- Battle of Malplaquet · Europe · War
- The Great Frost of 1709 · Europe · Exploration
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Era
Enlightenment (1651–1800), one of 696 events from that era on Saeculum.
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