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AS	Sc	Gv	1689	Oct	11	Peter the Great becomes tsar of Russia [this seems incorrect...11/2/1721? -ed]
??	??	??	1696	Jul	18	Czar Peter the Great’s fleet occupies Azov at mouth of Don River
??	??	??	1697	Mar	09	Czar Peter the Great begins tour of Western Europe
??	??	??			21	Czar Peter the Great begins tour through West-Europe
NE	??	??	1698	Jan	07	Russian Czar Peter the Great departs Netherlands to England
NE	Mv	Rl		Aug	18	Russian czar Peter the Great arrives in Zaandam
AS	Sc	Gv			19	Russian czar Peter the Great begins term
??	??	??			25	Czar Peter the Great returns to Moscow after trip through West-Europe
AS	Sc	Cm		Sep	05	Russia’s Peter the Great imposes a tax on beards
??	??	??	1699	Dec	20	Peter the Great orders Russian New Year changed-Sept 1 to Jan 1
AS	Mv	St	1703	May	27	St. Petersburg (Leningrad) founded by Peter the Great
??	??	??	1707	Sep	15	Francis II Rakoczi and Czar Peter the Great sign social security agreement
AS	Sc	Gv	1710	Jan	27	Czar Peter the Great sets first Russian state budget
??	??	??	1711	Aug	01	Surrounded Czar Peter the Great flees Azov
EU	Sc	Md	1716	Apr	08	Duke Karel Leopold of Mecklenburg-Schwerin signs covenant with Russia and marries Czar Peter the Great’s niece [wiki says Apr 19--New v Old Style dates? -ed]
??	??	??		Nov	03	Pacification Treaty of Warsaw: Czar Peter the Great guarantees Saxon monarch Augustus II’s Polish kingdom
AS	Sc	Gv	1721	Jan	25	Czar Peter the Great ends Russian-orthodox patriarchy
AS	Sc	Gv		Oct	22	Czar Peter the Great becomes "All-Russian Imperator"
??	??	??	1722	Jan	24	Czar Peter the Great begins civil system
AS	Sc	Gv		Apr	06	Peter the Great ends tax on men with beards
AS	Sc	Bd	1725	Feb	08	Peter the Great dies from a bladder infection