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In the Great Northern War (1700–1721) a coalition led by the Tsardom of Russia successfully contested the supremacy of the Swedish Empire in Northern, Central and Eastern Europe. [17] The initial leaders of the anti-Swedish alliance were Peter I of Russia, Frederick IV of Denmark–Norway and Augustus II the Strong of Saxony – Poland ...
Part of the French and Indian War Great Britain: Cherokee: 1759 1760 Burmese–Siamese War (1759–1760) Burmese Empire: Siam: 1760 1760 Tacky's War Great Britain: Slaves 1761 1761 Canek Revolt Spain: Mayans 1762 1763 Fantastic War Part of the Seven Years' War Portugal Great Britain Spain France: 1763 1764 Berbice slave uprising Dutch Republic
1700–1721 Great Northern War – 30,000 Russians killed in action [2] 1701–1714 War of the Spanish Succession – 1,251,000 killed in action [1] 1703–1711 Rákóczi's War of Independence; 1707–1708 Bulavin Rebellion; 1712 Toggenburg War; 1714–1718 Venetian-Ottoman War; 1715–1716 Jacobite rising of 1715
Lazic War: 541: 562: 21 years Great Northern War: 1700: 1721: 21 years [24] Ottoman conquest of Habesh: 1557: 1578: 21 years Muslim conquest of Persia: 633: 654: 21 years Conflict in the Niger Delta: 2003: Ongoing: 21 years Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: 16 March 2004: Ongoing: 20 years, 9 months and 3 days Iran–PJAK conflict: 1 April 2004 ...
Timelines of War: A Chronology of Warfare from 100,000 BC to the Present (1996), Global coverage. Cannon, John, ed. The Oxford Companion to British History (2003) Carlton, Charles. This Seat of Mars: War and the British Isles, 1485–1746 (Yale UP; 2011) 332 pages; studies the impact of near unceasing war from the individual to the national levels.
Bringing Home the Body of King Karl XII of Sweden (Gustaf Cederström. 1884). The Great Northern War was the war fought between a coalition of Denmark–Norway, Russia and Saxony-Poland (from 1715 also Prussia and Hanover) on one side and Sweden on the other side from 1700 to 1721.
The Great Northern War is generally considered to have concluded the Northern Wars with the decline of Sweden and establishment of the Russian Empire as the principal power of the region, however there are different scholarly opinions on which war constitutes the First Northern War and an internationally agreed-on nomenclature for these wars ...
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