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Secularization of monastic lands sequesters church
and monastic properties, beginning in 1764.
Most commercial and manufacturing monopo-
lies abolished.
Law of 1721 allowing merchants to buy villages
is revoked.
Peter III overthrown and murdered in palace
coup. His wife assumes throne as Catherine II.
1768
Greater Russian influence on Poland-Lithuania.
1768-1774
Russo-Turkish War. Russia acquires the areas to
the north of the Black Sea.
1769
First Russian satirical journals published by
Catherine.
Establishment of Imperial Council.
1762-1763
Catherine the Great (r. 1762-1796) issues mani-
festo inviting foreign colonists to Russia.
1771
Bubonic plague epidemic spreads through Rus-
sia with riots in Moscow.
Conquest of the Khanate of Crimea, which
becomes Russian protectorate.
Massive Kalmyk emigration to Central Asia and
abolition of Khanate of the Kalmyks.
1762-1796
Reign of Catherine II, “the Great.”
1764
Cossack office of ataman abolished.
Automatic promotion for certain categories of
civil servants.
Death of Ivan VI, imprisoned since 1741.
Russo-Prussian alliance.
Final secularization of church lands.
1772
First partition of Poland (July)—Belorussia
annexed to Russia.
1764-1767
Founding of German colonies along the lower
Volga region.
1773-1774
Pugachev Rebellion, a popular uprising of peas-
ants and Cossacks in the lower Volga region.
1765
Establishment of Free Economic Society.
1774
Treaty of Kuchuk-Kainarji ends Russo-Turkish
War and recognizes Russian protectorate over
Christians in Ottoman Empire.
1766
Publication of Catherine's “Great Instruction.”
1775
Conquest, destruction, and dissolution of the
Zaporozhian Cossacks; limits placed on Cos-
sack autonomy.
Promulgation statute on provincial administration.
Manufacturing opened to all estates.
1767
Automatic promotion rules for civil servants
extended.
Peasants fobidden to submit complaints against
their landowners.
1767-1768
Legislative Commission convoked to draft new
code of laws.
1780
Russia joins League of Armed Neutrality.
1780s
Construction of imperial palaces at Tsarskoe
Selo, outside St. Petersburg.
1767-1773
Commission for new legal code.
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