Treaty of Nystad
August 30, 1721
After twenty-one years, the Great Northern War ended with Sweden ceding Estonia, Livonia, Ingria, and Karelia to Russia. Peter the Great took the title of Emperor; the Senate declared him Father of the Fatherland. Stockholm mourned in black while St. Petersburg set off cannon. A new great power had been born.
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- Peter the Great Proclaimed Emperor · Europe · Politics
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Era
Enlightenment (1651–1800), one of 696 events from that era on Saeculum.
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