1770

The Russian navy defeats the Ottoman navy at the Bay of Chesme, the first major naval victory by Russia

• Catherine the Great resettled approximately 120,000 Nogais from Bessarabia and areas northeast of the Sea of Azov to the Kuban and the Caucasus

• 1769-1770 Warfare with Russian Cossacks reduced the Koryak population from 10-11,000 in 1700 to 4,800 in 1800.

• 1768-1772 War of the Bar Confederation

• 1768-1774 Russia invades Ottoman territories in Bessarabia, the Balkans and the Crimean peninsula

• 1768-1776 Russia invades to Poland

• 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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