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1700-1716 Russia's Fall to Sweden
1700: The Great Northern War between Tsarist Russia and the Swedish Empire begins. Russian troops begin attacking the Swedish border.

1701-1714: King Federick 1st declares ruler of the Polish Kingdom. War of the Spanish Succession begins. The spanish throne is fought over by many countries such as France and the Holy Roman Empire. Philip the 5th will soon inherit the throne under the Peace of Utrecht.

1702: The Camisard rebellion occurs in France.

1703: Peter the Great founds St. Petersburg as the capitol of Tsar Russia. POD: Peter the Great died from a horesback accident near Novgorod. With Peter's death, the Rusians did not re-capture the mouth of Neva from the swedes. The Swedish king, Charles the 12th, prepares an army to invade Russia seeing an opportunity of Peter's death.

1705: Tsar Russia fell into chaos since Peter's wife din't gave birth to any children. By the summer of 1705, King Charles the 12th lead an army of 50,000 men from Saxony aiming towards Moscow, and St. Petersburg. Russian militia failed to create a defencive line without any experienced generals to guide them causing a major defeat in Moscow. The king burned the countryside stripping off the Russians for food in the winter. Swedish garrison continues south toward Ukraine killing most of the Russian resistance against the army. Russia fell into chaotic city-states after the fall of Moscow.

1706: Swedish re-inforcements arrive in Mamunsk to conquer many of the Russian city-states that is still standing. The Swedish king killed or hanged nearly 60,000 Russians whom suspected as a rebel. Russia fell under the reich of Sweden by November. Charles annexed all of Russia and threatened death if there were any resistance. Sweden although, lost lands surrounding the former Russian border because of Muslim raids and lack of security, it still contains a chunk of Russian land.

1709-17? France going DOWN!
1709-1714: France was in a verge of collapse because of war weariness and famine ravenging the cities. The king appealed to the common and gained suport for a new army.Marshal Vilars, the king's general, so ended the Spanish Succession War by driving the allies back. The treaties of Utrecht and Rastadt is signed offering France to loose no territories. France agreed that both the French and Spanish throne should never be united.

1715 POD: Louis the 15th came to reign but quickly diead from an assasination from an Italian spy (Whom still distraut about the Spanish Succession War). France once again fell into chaos and in a verge of collapse.