The Polish-Muscovite War was a series of campaigns between the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and Russia during the Time of Troubles, the period of dynastic crisis, famine and civil war in Russia after the end of the Rurik dynasty. Polish magnates first supported the pretender known as False Dmitry I, and later King Sigismund III Vasa intervened directly, besieging Smolensk for almost two years. In 1610 the Poles won the Battle of Klushino, and Russian boyars offered the throne to Sigismund's son Wladyslaw, so that Polish troops occupied Moscow. A popular uprising led by Kuzma Minin and Dmitry Pozharsky drove them out in 1612, and the Romanov dynasty was elected in 1613. The Truce of Deulino gave the Commonwealth Smolensk and other territories.
Before and after
- 24 March 1603Death of Elizabeth I of England
- 1604Siege of Ostend
- October 1604Kepler's Supernova appears in the constellation Ophiuchus
- 8 October 1604SN 1604
- from 1605 to 1618Polish–Muscovite War
- 1605Construction of Kensington Palace
- 1605Publication of Don Quixote
- 27 September 1605Battle of Kircholm
- 15 October 1605Death of Akbar
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