Treaty of Nerchinsk
Russia and Qing China agree their first border
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Russia's first treaty with Qing China, negotiated by Fyodor Golovin, fixed the border along the Argun River and mountain ranges. Russia gave up the Amur basin but gained peace and trade with China for a century and a half.
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The authoritative text of the first Russia–China treaty, Nerchinsk (1689), was in Latin: Jesuit interpreters handled the talks.
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Alive at the time
- Louis XIV (aged 51)
- Isaac Newton (aged 46)
- Kangxi Emperor (aged 35)
- Peter the Great (aged 17)
- Johann Sebastian Bach (aged 4)
- Aurangzeb (aged 71)
- Leopold I (aged 49)
- Matsuo Bashō (aged 45)
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (aged 43)
- Tokugawa Tsunayoshi (aged 43)