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.

) 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.

* 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.

`` O.K. '' Charles rose also, and the two of them moved over to join the girls.

" I don't know whether they made them up as they moved down the cotton rows or not ," Wills once told Charles Townsend, author of San Antonio Rose: The Life and Times of Bob Wills, " but they sang blues you never heard before.

Because Charles Moore had frequently moved from job to job over his career, an early pressure on the developing language was ease of porting to different computer architectures.

In 1833, Charles Babbage moved on from developing his difference engine ( for navigational calculations ) to a general purpose design, the Analytical Engine, which drew directly on Jacquard's punched cards for its program storage.

In 1930, following his brother Charles Pollock, he moved to New York City where they both studied under Thomas Hart Benton at the Art Students League of New York.

He resigned from the General Assembly, sold his land in Charles County, and moved to Frederick County in western Maryland.

MIT reinforced its independence in 1916 when it moved to its new campus on a mile-long tract on the Cambridge side of the Charles River, almost entirely on landfill.

Some remained in politics: Mackenzie Bowell continued to serve as a senator ; R. B. Bennett moved to the United Kingdom after being elevated to the House of Lords ; and a number led Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition in the Canadian parliament: John A. Macdonald, Arthur Meighen, William Lyon Mackenzie King, and Pierre Trudeau, all before being re-appointed as premier ( Mackenzie King twice ); Alexander Mackenzie and John Diefenbaker, both prior to sitting as regular Members of Parliament until their deaths ; Wilfrid Laurier dying while still in the post ; and Charles Tupper, Louis St. Laurent, and John Turner, each before they returned to private business.

On the death of Charles of Naples on 24 February 1386, Urban moved to Lucca in December of the same year.

In December 1862, with the approval of Halleck, Grant moved to take Vicksburg by an overland route, aided by Charles Hamilton and James McPherson, in combination with a water expedition on the Mississippi led by Maj. Gen. Sherman.

In 1892, Victoria University moved from Cobourg to its current campus on Queen's Park Crescent, south of Bloor Street ( at Charles Street West ), in Toronto.

Prior to construction Stephenson House was moved to a new location further east on Charles St.

The Bourbons, supported by Charles Emmanuel III of Sardinia, moved against isolated Habsburg territories.

Herschel moved to Sunderland in 1761 when Charles Avison immediately engaged him as first violin and soloist for his Newcastle orchestra, where he played for one season.

Elizabeth had two children, Charles and Anne, in the next three years, which moved Margaret further down the line of succession.

Charles moved with his characteristic energy to suppress it, and Arles, Avignon, and Barral of Baux had surrendered to him by June 1251.

As Charles ' army began an energetic campaign, Manfred suddenly shed his lethargy and moved to meet him.

In the face of the Aragonese landing, Charles was compelled to withdraw across the Straits of Messina into Calabria in September ; but the Aragonese moved swiftly enough to destroy part of his army and most of his baggage.

He sold his property in Chicago in 1800 and moved to St. Charles, Missouri, where he died on August 28, 1818.

After Point du Sable sold his property in Chicago he moved to St. Charles, Missouri.

The St. Charles Borromeo Cemetery was moved twice in the 19th century, and oral tradition and records of the Archdiocese of St. Louis suggested that Point du Sable's remains were also moved.

Following the murder some residents of Chicago moved into the fort while the rest fortified themselves in a house that had belonged to Charles Jouett, an Indian Agent.

He moved straight toward the town of Spicheren, cutting off Prince Frederick Charles from his forward cavalry units in the process.

She later moved with her husband to London for two years where they would go to the cinema when Charles wasn't busy with his research.