Timeline (Swedish Empire)


 * 1709:


 * Swedish diplomats successfully convince the Cossacks, Tartars and Ottomans to ally with the Swedish king Charles XII against the Russians.


 * The combined Ottoman, Tartar and Cossack armies join with the Swedes south of the town of Poltava.


 * Battle of Poltava. Russia defeated by Charles XII and his allies.


 * Kiev and Kharkhov fall to Ottoman forces.


 * Swedish armies march north and capture Smolensk in November.