1764

Civil War in Russia-occupied Poland

• Ivan VI is murdered

• The "status" of the Lapps changed - instead of the monasteries they were exploited by the state, who was very much interested in furs, fish, seals, walrus, train oil, ivory tusks etc.

• 1763-1864 Russo-Circassian War

• 1732-1867 The Russian colonization of the Americas

• 1714-1809 Russian conquers most of Finland from Sweden

• 1700-1900 The Slavic Russians outnumber all of the native peoples in Siberia

• 1600-1800 The Yukaghir population was considerably reduced in the 17th-19th centuries owing to epidemics, internecine warfare and the colonization policy of the tsarist government

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