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Battle of Simbirsk: Russian Tsarist army decisively defeats a large force of rebel Cossacks led by Stepan Razin on the V

Battle of Simbirsk: Russian Tsarist army decisively defeats a large force of rebel Cossacks led by Stepan Razin on the Volga River

Battle of Simbirsk: Russian Tsarist army decisively defeats a large force of rebel Cossacks led by Stepan Razin on the Volga River

Events Before

  1. French King Louis XIV limits religious freedom

    Louis XIV (5 September 1638 – 1 September 1715), also known as Louis the Great (Louis le Grand [lwi lə ɡʁɑ̃]) or the Sun King (le Roi Soleil [lə ʁwa sɔlɛj]), was King of France from 1643 until his...

  2. Mt Etna in Sicily erupts in its largest recorded eruption, killing 15,000

    Mt Etna in Sicily erupts in its largest recorded eruption, killing 15,000

  3. Mount Etna in Sicily erupts, destroying Nicolosi, killing 20,000

    Mount Etna in Sicily erupts, destroying Nicolosi, killing 20,000

  4. Polish parliament selects Litouwer Michael Wisniopwiecki as king

    Polish parliament selects Litouwer Michael Wisniopwiecki as king

  5. LaSalle leaves Montreal to explore Ohio River

    LaSalle leaves Montreal to explore Ohio River

Events After

  1. Cossacks capture Russian peasant leader Stenka Razin

    Stepan Timofeyevich Razinɪvʲɪtɕ ˈrazʲɪn]; c. 1630 – June 16 [O.S. June 6] 1671), known as Stenka Razin, was a Don Cossack leader who led a major uprising against the nobility and tsarist bureaucracy...

  2. Petar Zrinski, the Croatian Ban from the Zrinski family, is executed for treason

    The House of Zrinski or Zrínyi was a Croatian-Hungarian noble family, a cadet branch of the Croatian noble tribe of Šubić, influential during the period in history marked by the Ottoman wars in...

  3. Colonel Thomas Blood attempts to steal Crown Jewels of England and Scotland from the Tower of London, captured running f

    Colonel Thomas Blood attempts to steal Crown Jewels of England and Scotland from the Tower of London, captured running from the tower with the jewels [1]

  4. Pageant of 1671: French claim possession of lands "from the northern and western seas to the southern sea, including lan

    Pageant of 1671: French claim possession of lands "from the northern and western seas to the southern sea, including lands yet to be discovered" in ceremony at Jesuit Mission, Sault Saint, Canada [1]

  5. French officer Simon-François Daumont de Saint-Lusson takes possession for France of Lake Huron and Superior "and all th

    French officer Simon-François Daumont de Saint-Lusson takes possession for France of Lake Huron and Superior "and all the other contiguous and adjacent countries, rivers, lakes and streams, here, both discovered and yet to be discovered", at assembly of fourteen Amerindian nations at Sault-Sainte-Ma

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