Capture of Azov
For a second attempt Peter builds a fleet in one winter
Peter I's first campaign against the Ottoman fortress of Azov in 1695 failed: without a fleet it could not be cut off from the sea. Over the winter galleys and ships were built at Voronezh, and in July 1696 Azov, besieged by land and sea, surrendered — the first victory of the future Russian navy.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- 1687 Newton's Principia — 9 years earlier
- 1688–1689 Glorious Revolution — 8 years earlier
- 1699 Treaty of Karlowitz — 3 years later
- 1701–1714 War of the Spanish Succession — 5 years later
- 1707 England and Scotland unite — 11 years later
Asia
- 1673–1681 Revolt of the Three Feudatories — 23 years earlier
- 1707 Death of Aurangzeb — 11 years later
Alive at the time
- Louis XIV (aged 58)
- Isaac Newton (aged 53)
- Kangxi Emperor (aged 42)
- Peter the Great (aged 24)
- Johann Sebastian Bach (aged 11)
- Voltaire (aged 2)
- Aurangzeb (aged 78)
- John Locke (aged 64)
- Leopold I (aged 56)
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (aged 50)