✦ History

Great Northern War

February 22, 1700 – September 10, 1721

Result Anti-Swedish coalition victory

Ended by Treaty of Nystad

A coalition led by Russia, Denmark–Norway and Saxony fought the Swedish Empire. Sweden lost Estonia, Livonia and Ingria to Russia and other lands to Prussia, Hanover and Denmark.

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Battles and events 30

February 22, 1700
Siege of Riga (1700) Swedish victory Riga, Swedish Livonia Augustus II the Strong, Erik Dahlbergh
March 1, 1700 – August 1700
Siege of Tönning Siege lifted (1700); allied victory (1714) Tönning (Tønning) area, Holstein-Gottorp Alexander Danilovich Menshikov, Magnus Stenbock, Frederick IV of Holstein-Gottorp
August 18, 1700
Peace of Travendal Traventhal
November 30, 1700
Battle of Narva (1700) Swedish victory Narva, Ingria, Swedish Empire; Charles XII of Sweden, Carl Gustav Rehnskiöld, Boris Sheremetev
July 18, 1701
Crossing of the Düna Swedish victory Riga, Swedish Livonia; Charles XII of Sweden, Adam Heinrich von Steinau, Otto Arnold von Paykull
January 9, 1702
Battle of Erastfer Russian victory Erastfer, Swedish Livonia; Boris Sheremetev, Wolmar Anton von Schlippenbach
July 19, 1702
Battle of Kliszów Swedish victory Near Kliszów, Poland Charles XII of Sweden, Carl Gustav Rehnskiöld, Augustus II the Strong
July 29, 1702
Battle of Hummelshof Russian victory Hummelshof, Swedish Livonia; Boris Sheremetev, Wolmar Anton von Schlippenbach
October 7–22, 1702
Siege of Nöteborg (1702) Russian victory Nöteborg, Swedish Empire, renamed Shlisselburg, Russian Empire; Peter the Great, Boris Sheremetev
May 1, 1703
Battle of Pułtusk (1703) Swedish victory Pułtusk, Poland Charles XII of Sweden, Adam Heinrich von Steinau
June 27 – August 9, 1704
Siege of Narva (1704) Russian victory Narva, Swedish Empire Peter the Great, Georg Benedikt von Ogilvy
August 5, 1704
Battle of Jakobstadt Swedish victory Jakobstadt, Duchy of Courland and Semigallia, (present day Jēkabpils, Latvia) Adam Ludwig Lewenhaupt, Kazimierz Jan Sapieha, Michał Serwacy Wiśniowiecki
October 28, 1704
Battle of Poniec Swedish victory Poniec, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth Charles XII of Sweden, Johann Matthias von der Schulenburg
July 21, 1705
Battle of Warsaw (1705) Swedish victory Carl Nieroth, Otto Arnold von Paykull
July 26, 1705
Battle of Gemauerthof Swedish victory Gemauerthof, Duchy of Courland and Semigallia, (now Mūrmuiža, Vilce Parish, Jelgava Municipality, Latvia) Boris Sheremetev, Adam Ludwig Lewenhaupt
February 13, 1706
Battle of Fraustadt Swedish victory Fraustadt (Wschowa), Poland Carl Gustav Rehnskiöld, Johann Matthias von der Schulenburg, Axel Sparre
April 10, 1706
Battle of Grodno (1706) Swedish victory Charles XII of Sweden, Alexander Danilovich Menshikov, Georg Benedikt von Ogilvy
October 29, 1706
Battle of Kalisz Anti-Swedish coalition victory Kalisz, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (now Poland) Alexander Danilovich Menshikov, Augustus II the Strong, Kazimierz Jan Sapieha
1708 – 1709
Swedish invasion of Russia Russian victory Peter the Great, Charles XII of Sweden, Alexander Danilovich Menshikov
November 1–2, 1708
Sack of Baturyn Russian victory; Baturyn destroyed
March 10, 1710
Battle of Helsingborg Swedish victory Helsingborg, Scania, Sweden Magnus Stenbock, Jørgen Rantzau
November 20, 1710 – June 24, 1713
Russo-Turkish War (1710–1713) Ottoman victory; Treaty of Pruth Peter the Great, Ahmed III, Boris Sheremetev
December 20, 1712
Battle of Gadebusch Swedish victory Wakenstädt near Gadebusch, 35 km south of Lübeck in present-day Germany Magnus Stenbock, Frederick IV of Denmark, Jobst von Scholten
1713 – 1721
Great Wrath
February 1, 1713
Skirmish at Bender Ottoman victory Bender, Moldavia, Ottoman Empire Charles XII of Sweden, Devlet II Giray, Axel Sparre
March 2, 1714
Battle of Napue Russian victory Napue village, Isokyrö (Storkyro), Ostrobothnia, Finland, Swedish Empire Mikhail Mikhailovich Golitsyn, Carl Gustaf Armfeldt
August 6, 1714
Battle of Gangut Russian victory Hanko Peninsula, southern Finland Peter the Great, Fyodor Apraksin
July 8, 1716
Battle of Dynekilen Dano-Norwegian victory Bohuslän Olof Strömstierna, Peter Tordenskjold
January 8–16, 1719
Carolean Death March
August 7, 1720
Battle of Grengam Russian victory Near Granhamn in the Ledsund strait, Åland, Sweden (now Finland) Mikhail Mikhailovich Golitsyn, Carl Georg Siöblad

Key commanders

Tsardom of Russia 11

Peter the Great military commander Alexander Danilovich Menshikov military commander Boris Sheremetev military commander Fyodor Apraksin military commander Christian Detlev Reventlow military commander Frederick IV of Denmark military commander Charles Eugène de Croÿ military commander Avtonom Golovin military commander Georg Benedikt von Ogilvy military commander Augustus II the Strong military commander Mikhail Mikhailovich Golitsyn military commander

Sweden 18

Charles XII of Sweden military commander Ulrika Eleonora of Sweden military commander Carl Gustav Rehnskiöld military commander Adam Ludwig Lewenhaupt military commander Magnus Stenbock military commander Frederick I of Sweden military commander Erik Dahlbergh military commander Frederick IV of Holstein-Gottorp military commander Nils Gyllenstierna military commander Wolmar Anton von Schlippenbach military commander Kazimierz Jan Sapieha military commander Carl Nieroth military commander Axel Sparre military commander Arvid Axel Mardefelt military commander Józef Potocki military commander Carl Gustaf Armfeldt military commander Olof Strömstierna military commander Carl Georg Siöblad military commander

Ottoman Empire 3

Ahmed III belligerent leader Baltacı Mehmet Pasha military commander Devlet II Giray military commander

Electorate of Saxony 5

Augustus II the Strong military commander Adam Heinrich von Steinau military commander Otto Arnold von Paykull military commander Johann Matthias von der Schulenburg military commander Alexander Danilovich Menshikov military commander

Denmark 5

Alexander Danilovich Menshikov military commander Jørgen Rantzau military commander Frederick IV of Denmark military commander Jobst von Scholten military commander Peter Tordenskjold military commander

Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth 2

Michał Serwacy Wiśniowiecki military commander Grzegorz Antoni Ogiński military commander

Russian Empire 1

Mikhail Mikhailovich Golitsyn military commander