The Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca ended the Russo-Turkish War of 1768 to 1774 and was signed in a village now in Bulgaria. Russia gained the ports of Azov and Kerch, the land between the Dnieper and Bug rivers, access to the Black Sea and the right to sail commercial ships through the Ottoman straits. The Crimean Khanate was declared independent of the Ottoman Empire, which in practice put it under Russian influence, and Russia annexed it in 1783. Russia also obtained the right to build a church in Constantinople and to make representations on behalf of Orthodox Christians, which it later claimed as a right to protect all Orthodox subjects of the sultan. The treaty marked a turning point in the balance of power between the two empires.
Before and after
- 1774Publication of The Sorrows of Young Werther
- 1774Founding of Heidelberg-Königstuhl State Observatory
- 1774Discovery of chlorine
- 1774Discovery of manganese
- 21 July 1774Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca
- 1 August 1774Priestley isolates oxygen
- 5 September 1774Birth of Caspar David Friedrich
- 20 January 1775Birth of André-Marie Ampère
- from 19 April 1775 to 3 September 1783American Revolutionary War
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