1771

Plague Riot in Russia

• The oppression of czarist administration forced the larger part of Kalmyks (33 thousands households or approximately 170,000–200,000 people) to migrate to Dzungaria.

• The Empress Catherine the Great ordered the Russian army, Bashkirs and Kazakhs to exterminate all migrants and Catherine the Great abolished the Kalmyk Khanate. The Kyrgyzs attacked them near Balkhash Lake. About 100,000-150,000 Kalmyks who settled on the west bank of the Volga River couldn't cross the river because the river didn't freeze in the winter of 1771 and Catherine the Great executed influential nobles of them

• After the exodus, the Kalmyks that remained part of the Russian Empire became under the control of the Tsarist government.

• 1771-1774 Russian empire occupied Dobruja

• 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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