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) Charles XII persuaded the Ottoman Sultan Ahmed III to declare war on Russia, which resulted in the Ottoman victory at the Pruth River Campaign of 1710 – 1711.
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He afforded refuge in Ottoman territory to Charles XII of Sweden ( 1682 – 1718 ) after the Swedish defeat at the hands of Peter I of Russia ( 1672 – 1725 ) in the Battle of Poltava of 1709.
In 1708 Peter sent Alexei to Smolensk to collect provender and recruits, and after that to Moscow to fortify it against Charles XII of Sweden.
* 1713 – The Kalabalik or Tumult in Bendery results from the Ottoman sultan's order that his unwelcome guest, King Charles XII of Sweden, be seized.
In late January or early February 1706 he was forced to flee from the invading troops of the Swedish King Charles XII.
* 1682 – Charles XII of Sweden ( d. 1718 )
* 1709 – Peter the Great defeats Charles XII of Sweden at the Battle of Poltava.
* 1709 – Great Northern War: Battle of Poltava – Peter I of Russia defeats Charles XII of Sweden at Poltava thus effectively ending Sweden's role as a major power in Europe.
* 1702 – Great Northern War: A numerically superior Polish-Saxon army of Augustus II the Strong, operating from an advantageous defensive position, is defeated by a Swedish army half its size under the command of King Charles XII in the Battle of Klissow.
In 1713, Charles XII of Sweden entered Lund.
Peace was finally restored with the death of Charles XII in 1718, and during the first half of the 18th century the university was granted added funds.
However, due to the wars of Charles XII of Sweden and bubonic plague epidemics, the population dropped to 1, 500 by 1727.
* 1700 – Battle of Narva – A Swedish army of 8, 500 men under Charles XII defeats a much larger Russian army at Narva.
* 1718 – Swedish king Charles XII dies during a siege of the fortress Fredriksten in Norway.
* 1868 – The inauguration of a statue of King Charles XII of Sweden takes place in the King's garden in Stockholm.
King Charles XII of Sweden fled to the Ottoman Empire following his defeat against the Russians at the Battle of Poltava in 1709.
Accordingly, King Charles XII of Sweden was welcomed as an ally in the Ottoman Empire following his defeat by the Russians at the Battle of Poltava in 1709 ( part of the Great Northern War of 1700 – 1721.
* In 1716 King Charles XII of Sweden asked Emanuel Swedenborg to elaborate a number system based on 64 instead of 10.
In April 1939, after the submission of Charles Maurras and the intervention of the Carmel of Lisieux, Pius XII ended his predecessor's ban on Action Française, an organization described by some authors as virulently antisemitic and anti-Communist.
* 1708 – Charles XII of Sweden stops his march to conquer Moscow outside Smolensk, marking the turning point in the Great Northern War.
This gave the succession to his cousin Lady Jane Grey, the granddaughter of Henry VIII's sister Mary Tudor, who, after the death of Louis XII of France in 1515 had married Henry VIII's favourite Charles Brandon, the first Duke of Suffolk.
Thirty years earlier, Stanisław had been installed as king of Poland by King Charles XII of Sweden during his period of dominance in the early part of the Great Northern War, and was ousted following the Battle of Poltava by the victorious Russians.
A Swedish army under Charles XII arrived in Saxony, where he had just finished chastising the Elector Augustus II and forced him to renounce his claims to the Polish throne.
* Charles XII, King of Sweden, the Goths and the Wends ;
* December – Charles XII of Sweden launches his campaign to conquer Russia, marching to the east from Leipzig with 60, 000 coalition troops.
Charles and persuaded
In 893, Arnulf switched his support from Odo to Charles the Simple after being persuaded by Fulk ( Archbishop of Reims ) that it was in his best interests.
Scherer persuaded retired businessman and trustee Charles W. Gates to donate $ 25, 000 in seed money to build Gates Laboratory, the first science building on campus.
He undertook diplomatic missions to Bulgaria ( 866 ) and France ( 869 and 872 ), and he persuaded Charles the Bald, King of France, to be crowned as emperor by the Pope in 875.
A subsequent investigation led by the District Attorney of New York resulted in the arrests of Patrick and of Rice's butler and valet Charles F. Jones, who had been persuaded to administer chloroform to Rice while he slept.
A subsequent investigation led by the District Attorney of New York resulted in the arrests of Patrick and of Rice's butler and valet Charles F. Jones, who had been persuaded to administer chloroform to Rice while he slept.
Manfred's own usurpation from Conradin told upon King Louis ' scruples ; this time, he was persuaded to admit the offer, and Charles ratified a treaty with the Pope in July 1263.
Nevertheless, he persuaded Innocent of his sincerity in working towards it, and Charles was again forbidden to attack Constantinople.
The establishment of a Royal Observatory was proposed in 1674 by Sir Jonas Moore who, in his role as Surveyor General at the Ordnance Office, persuaded King Charles II that the Observatory might be built with Flamsteed employed in it.
The Yorkist king persuaded his host, Charles the Bold, to help him regain the English throne.
The complications involved in a female Habsburg ruler had been long foreseen, and Charles VI had persuaded most of the states of Germany to agree to the Pragmatic Sanction of 1713.
In 1978, Topeka attorneys Richard Jones, Joseph Johnson and Charles Scott Jr. ( son of the original Brown team member ), with assistance from the American Civil Liberties Union, persuaded Linda Brown Smith — who now had her own children in Topeka schools — to be a plaintiff in reopening Brown.
Charles Stanley, pastor of Atlanta's megachurch First Baptist and a television evangelist, has written that the doctrine of eternal security of the believer persuaded him years ago to leave his familial Pentecostalism and become a Southern Baptist.
Riis was influenced by his father, whose school Riis delighted in disrupting, and who persuaded him to read ( and improve his English via ) Charles Dickens's magazine All the Year Round and the novels of James Fenimore Cooper.
Cult leader Charles Manson persuaded members of his " family " that the album was an apocalyptic message predicting a prolonged race war and justified the murder of wealthy people.
The lower estates protested the imposition of fresh burdens, but were persuaded by Charles.
In 1905, its community leaders persuaded former native and steel tycoon Charles Schwab to build a large paper mill.
Selwyn also said that " Charles, I am persuaded, would have no consideration on earth but for what was useful to his own ends.
Ferdinand II had named Ferdinand as his heir-apparent in his will before being persuaded to revoke this bequest and rename Joanna and Charles I as his heirs-presumptive instead.
Czernin persuaded Charles to send a ' Word of Honour ' to Austria's allies saying that Sixtus had not been authorised to show the letter to the French Government, that Belgium had not been mentioned, and Clemenceau had lied about the mentioning of the Alsace.
This persuaded Archduke Charles that he had left III Korps in an exposed position and ordered it to hasten their retreat and get in line with VI Korps.
Napiers also inspired Charles J. Glidden to create the Glidden Tours in upstate New York, which in turn persuaded Napier to build a factory in Boston.
The Scottish Covenants persuaded the exiled Charles II of England to agree to the terms of the Solemn League and Covenant in the Treaty of Breda ( 1650 ).
The President of the Harvard Dramatic Society, Charles Leatherbee, along with the President of Princeton's Theatre Intime, Bretaigne Windust, who together had established the University Players on Cape Cod the summer before, persuaded Sullavan to join them for their second summer season.
He recounts how he was approached by Charles Rivington and had to be persuaded that this was the correct course.
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