Accession of Peter the Great
A ten-year-old takes the throne — Russia's future reformer
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In 1682 ten-year-old Peter was proclaimed tsar; after the Streltsy uprising he shared the throne with his half-brother Ivan V under the regency of Sophia. Peter ruled alone from 1696 and launched sweeping reforms.
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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)
Europe
- 1676 Leeuwenhoek sees microbes — 6 years earlier
- 1683 Battle of Vienna — 1 year later
- 1687 Newton's Principia — 5 years later
- 1688–1689 Glorious Revolution — 6 years later
Africa
- 1662 Last sighting of the dodo — 20 years earlier
Alive at the time
- Louis XIV (aged 44)
- Isaac Newton (aged 39)
- Kangxi Emperor (aged 28)
- Peter the Great (aged 10)
- Aurangzeb (aged 64)
- Charles II (aged 52)
- Leopold I (aged 42)
- Matsuo Bashō (aged 38)
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (aged 36)
- Tokugawa Tsunayoshi (aged 36)