1759 in Russia
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Events from the year 1759 in Russia
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Incumbents
[edit]Events
[edit]- Page Corps military academy founded in Saint Petersburg
- May 10 – The Macedonian Hussar Regiment is formed and starts to assist the Russian Empire in the Seven Years' War.
- August 12 – Battle of Kunersdorf: Frederick the Great is rebuffed in bloody assaults, by the combined Austro–Russian army of Pyotr Saltykov and Ernst von Laudon. This is one of Frederick's greatest defeats.[1]
Births
[edit]- Sophie Marie Dorothea of Württemberg, empress of Paul I of Russia (d. 1828)
References
[edit]- ^ Hoetzsch, Otto (1966). The Evolution of Russia. trans. Rhys Evans. London: Thames and Hudson. p. 93.
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