Battle of Gangut
The Russian navy's first major victory
On 7 August 1714 Russian galleys under Peter I and Fyodor Apraksin slipped past becalmed Swedish warships off the Hanko peninsula and captured Rear Admiral Ehrensköld's squadron. The victory opened the Gulf of Bothnia and the Åland Islands to the Russian navy.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- 1701–1714 War of the Spanish Succession — 13 years earlier
- 1707 England and Scotland unite — 7 years earlier
Middle East
- 1722 Fall of Isfahan — 8 years later
- 1736 Nader Shah takes the throne of Iran — 22 years later
Asia
- 1707 Death of Aurangzeb — 7 years earlier
Alive at the time
- Louis XIV (aged 76)
- Isaac Newton (aged 71)
- Kangxi Emperor (aged 60)
- Peter the Great (aged 42)
- Johann Sebastian Bach (aged 29)
- Voltaire (aged 20)
- Benjamin Franklin (aged 8)
- Mikhail Lomonosov (aged 3)
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (aged 68)
- Queen Anne (aged 49)