The Third Russo-Turkish War, also known as the Russo-Turkish War of 1686 to 1700, was part of the wider Great Turkish War in which the Holy League of European states fought the Ottoman Empire. Russia joined the League and, under the regent Sophia, sent armies against the Crimean Tatars, whose campaigns in 1687 and 1689 failed in the steppe. The young Tsar Peter the Great then turned to the Sea of Azov, and after a failed attempt in 1695, took the fortress of Azov the following year with the help of a newly built fleet. The Treaty of Constantinople confirmed Russia's possession of Azov. The war was the start of Russia's emergence as a naval power.
Before and after
- 23 February 1685Birth of George Frideric Handel
- 21 March 1685Birth of Johann Sebastian Bach
- 1 October 1685Birth of Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor
- 1686Founding of Greenfield
- from 1686 to 1700Third Russo-Turkish War
- 24 May 1686Birth of Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit
- 1687Publication of Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica
- 5 July 1687Newton's laws of motion
- from 1688 to 1807Jacobitism
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The era
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