Battle of Vienna
Sobieski lifts the siege and the Ottoman retreat begins
An army led by Polish king John III Sobieski lifted the Ottoman siege of Vienna, routing Grand Vizier Kara Mustafa. The defeat began the Ottoman Empire's retreat from Central Europe.
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Peter I became tsar in 1682; a year later the Ottomans were stopped at the gates of Vienna. The Europe he would go to learn from had only just held off the Turks.
Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1682 Accession of Peter the Great — 1 year earlier
- 1703 Founding of Saint Petersburg — 20 years later
Africa
- 1662 Last sighting of the dodo — 21 years earlier
Alive at the time
- Louis XIV (aged 45)
- Isaac Newton (aged 40)
- Kangxi Emperor (aged 29)
- Peter the Great (aged 11)
- Aurangzeb (aged 65)
- Charles II (aged 53)
- Leopold I (aged 43)
- Matsuo Bashō (aged 39)
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (aged 37)
- Tokugawa Tsunayoshi (aged 37)