1703 in Russia
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Events from the year 1703 in Russia
Incumbents
[edit]Events
[edit]- 21 April – Battle of Pultusk; Charles XII wins the Battle of Pultusk during the invasion of Poland and Lithuania.
- 27 May – Tsar Peter the Great founds Saint Petersburg on the site of a captured Swedish fortress, naming it after the apostle Saint Peter.[1]
Undated
[edit]- Polish Sejm raise Polish and Lithuanian armies against Russia to 36,000 and 12,000 men respectively.[2]
- Peter the Great assaults and captures the island fortress of Nöteborg, renaming it Shlisselburg.[3]
Ongoing
[edit]Births
[edit]- March 5 - Vasily Trediakovsky
- December 24 - Aleksei Chirikov
References
[edit]- ^ Shevchenko, Elizaveta (2021-10-11). "The Five Names of St. Petersburg". news.itmo.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 2025-07-29.
- ^ Frost, Robert I. (2000). The Northern Wars: War, State, and Society in Northeastern Europe, 1558-1721. Longman. ISBN 978-0-582-06430-0.
- ^ Tucker, Spencer (2010). A Global Chronology of Conflict [6 Volumes]: From the Ancient World to the Modern Middle East. Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 978-1-85109-667-1.
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