Great Northern War 1700–1721

Russian Empire, Tsardom of Russia, Kalmyk Khanate, Cossack Hetmanate, Denmark–Norway, Electorate of Saxony, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, Kingdom of Prussia ⚔ Sweden, Swedish Empire, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, Ottoman Empire, Cossack Hetmanate, Kingdom of England, Kingdom of Great Britain

Key battles

• Battle of Narva (1700)
• Crossing of the Düna (1701)
• Battle of Klissow (1702)
• Battle of Hummelshof (1702)
• Siege of Nöteborg (1702)
• Battle of Pułtusk (1703)
• Siege of Narva (1704)
• Battle of Jakobstadt (1704)
• Battle of Gemauerthof (1705)
• Battle of Warsaw (1705)
• Battle of Fraustadt (1706)
• Battle of Lesnaya (1708)
• Battle of Holowczyn (1708)
• Battle of Poltava (1709)
• Battle of Helsingborg (1710)
• Battle of Gadebusch (1712)
• Skirmish at Bender (1713)
• Battle of Napue (1714)

Who lived through the Great Northern War

Well-known people alive during 1700–1721:

• Isaac Newton (1643–1727) — English mathematician and physicist (1642–1727)
• Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750) — German composer (1685–1750)
• Voltaire (1694–1778) — French writer, historian and philosopher (1694–1778)
• Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) — American polymath and statesman (1706–1790)
• Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778) — Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist (1707–1778)
• Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646–1716) — German mathematician and philosopher (1646–1716)
• Leonhard Euler (1707–1783) — Swiss mathematician, physicist, and engineer (1707–1783)
• Louis XIV of France (1638–1715) — King of France and of Navarre from 1643 to 1715 (1638-1715)
• Peter the Great (1672–1725) — Tsar/Emperor of Russia from 1682 to 1725
• Antonio Vivaldi (1678–1741) — Italian composer and violinist (1678-1741)
• Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) — Anglo-Irish satirist and essayist (1667–1745)
• David Hume (1711–1776) — Scottish philosopher, economist, and historian (1711-1776)
• George Frideric Handel (1685–1759) — German-British Baroque composer (1685–1759)
• Montesquieu (1689–1755) — French philosopher (1689–1755)
• Daniel Defoe (1660–1731) — English trader, writer, and journalist (1660–1731)
• Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) — English writer and lexicographer (1709–1784)
• Alexander Pope (1688–1744) — English poet (1688–1744)
• Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (1632–1723) — Dutch scientist known as "the Father of Microbiology", and one of the first microscopists (1632–1723)
• Mikhail Lomonosov (1711–1765) — Russian polymath (1711-1765)
• George Berkeley (1685–1753) — Irish idealist philosopher and Anglican bishop (1685–1753)
• Louis XV of France (1710–1774) — King of France and of Navarre from 1715 to 1774 (1710–1774)
• Edmond Halley (1656–1742) — English astronomer, mathematician, geophysicist, meteorologist and physicist (1656–1742)
• Anders Celsius (1701–1744) — Swedish astronomer, physicist, and naturalist (1701-1744)
• Carlo Goldoni (1707–1793) — Italian playwright (1707-1793)
• Anne of Great Britain (1665–1714) — Queen of Great Britain and Ireland from 1702 to 1714 (1665–1714)

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