Nicholas I of Russia was born on 25 June 1796 in Pushkin. The eleventh emperor of Russia in the traditional numbering, Nicholas I came to the throne in 1825 and immediately faced the Decembrist revolt, an uprising of liberal officers, which he crushed. His reign was characterized by autocracy, censorship and the secret police, and by the doctrine of Orthodoxy, Autocracy and Nationality. He put down the Polish uprising of 1830-31 and helped the Habsburgs to suppress the Hungarian revolution in 1849, earning the name gendarme of Europe. He built railways, codified Russian law and fought wars against Persia and the Ottoman Empire. He died during the Crimean War, which had exposed Russia's backwardness.
Before and after
- 31 October 1795Birth of John Keats
- 2 November 1795Birth of James K. Polk
- 1796Georges Cuvier shows that extinction is real
- 14 May 1796Edward Jenner performs the first smallpox vaccination
- 25 June 1796Birth of Nicholas I of Russia
- from 18 August 1796 to 1 July 1808Anglo-Spanish War
- from 28 August 1796 to 5 September 1796Newfoundland expedition
- 6 November 1796Death of Catherine II of Russia
- from 1797 to 1798Cavendish experiment
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