Founding of Saint Petersburg
Peter the Great founds a new capital, a window on Europe
During the Great Northern War, Peter I laid a fortress at the mouth of the Neva on land taken from Sweden. The new city became Russia's capital and its 'window on Europe', the emblem of Peter's reforms.
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In the year St Petersburg was founded (1703), Newton became President of the Royal Society. He outlived Peter the Great by two years.
Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- 1683 Battle of Vienna — 20 years earlier
- 1687 Newton's Principia — 16 years earlier
- 1688–1689 Glorious Revolution — 15 years earlier
Alive at the time
- Louis XIV (aged 65)
- Isaac Newton (aged 60)
- Kangxi Emperor (aged 49)
- Peter the Great (aged 31)
- Johann Sebastian Bach (aged 18)
- Voltaire (aged 9)
- Aurangzeb (aged 85)
- Leopold I (aged 63)
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (aged 57)
- Tokugawa Tsunayoshi (aged 57)