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Muscovite Civil War: Shemyaka had Vasili II blinded and exiled to Uglich, and had himself declared the Grand Prince. 1450: Muscovite Civil War: The boyars of Moscow expelled Shemyaka from the Kremlin and recalled Vasili II to the throne. 1452: Muscovite Civil War: Shemyaka was forced to flee to the Novgorod Republic. 1453
This is a list of wars and armed conflicts involving Russia and its predecessors in chronological order, from the 9th to the 21st century.. The Russian military and troops of its predecessor states in Russia took part in a large number of wars and armed clashes in various parts of the world: starting from the princely squads, opposing the raids of nomads, and fighting for the expansion of the ...
The Russian Civil War (Russian: Гражданская война в России, romanized: Grazhdanskaya voyna v Rossii) was a multi-party civil war in the former Russian Empire sparked by the overthrowing of the Russian Provisional Government in the October Revolution, as many factions vied to determine Russia's political future.
After the war between Russia and China, the Treaty of Nerchinsk was signed, delimiting the territories in the Amur region. Sobornoye Ulozheniye was a legal code promulgated in 1649. Rather than risk their estates in more civil war, the boyars cooperated with the first Romanovs, enabling them to finish the work of bureaucratic centralization.
The Muscovite War of Succession, [1] [2] or Muscovite Civil War, [3] was a war of succession in the Grand Duchy of Moscow (Muscovy) from 1425 to 1453. [a] The two warring parties were Vasily II, the son of the previous Grand Prince of Moscow Vasily I, and on the other hand his uncle, Yury Dmitrievich, the Prince of Zvenigorod, and the sons of Yuri Dmitrievich, Vasily Kosoy and Dmitry Shemyaka.
The formal end to Tatar rule over Russia was the defeat of the Tatars at the Great Stand on the Ugra River in 1480. Ivan III (r. 1462–1505) and Vasili III (r. 1505–1533) had consolidated the centralized Russian state following the annexations of the Novgorod Republic in 1478, Tver in 1485, the Pskov Republic in 1510, Volokolamsk in 1513, Ryazan in 1521, and Novgorod-Seversk in 1522.
1450 First Margrave War: Imperial City of Nuremberg: Principality of Ansbach: 1449 1453 Revolt of Ghent (1449–53) Duchy of Burgundy: Ghent: 1449 1454 Kotte conquest of the Jaffna kingdom Kingdom of Kotte: Jaffna kingdom: 1450 1450 Jack Cade Rebellion: Kingdom of England: English peasants 1451 1455 Navarrese Civil War: John II of Aragon and ...
Khmelnytsky sought Russian support, but Russia hesitated, knowing that this would lead to a major war with Poland. In 1654, Russia accepted Khmelnitsky as a vassal ( Treaty of Pereyaslav ). Russo-Polish War (1654–1667) : Anticipating that the Treaty of Pereyaslavl would mean war with Poland, Russia struck first, taking Smolensk.