Pugachev's Rebellion was a huge uprising in the Russian Empire led by Yemelyan Pugachev, a Don Cossack who claimed to be the dead Tsar Peter III, the husband of Catherine the Great. It began among the Yaik Cossacks, who resented government control, and spread across the Ural and Volga regions as it attracted serfs, workers in factories, and non-Russian peoples such as the Bashkirs. The rebels captured towns and fortresses, and burned Kazan, and Pugachev issued decrees promising freedom from serfdom and taxes. The army finally defeated him, and he was betrayed by his own supporters and executed in Moscow. Catherine's government responded by reforming the administration of the provinces and by favoring the nobility.
Before and after
- 21 October 1772Birth of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- 9 February 1773Birth of William Henry Harrison
- 15 May 1773Birth of Klemens von Metternich
- 13 June 1773Birth of Thomas Young
- from September 1773 to January 1775Pugachev's Rebellion
- 16 December 1773Boston Tea Party
- 1774Publication of The Sorrows of Young Werther
- 1774Founding of Heidelberg-Königstuhl State Observatory
- 1774Discovery of chlorine
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