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Birth
Born to joanna elisabeth of holstein-gottorp and christian august, prince of anhalt-zerbst -
Marriage to Peter III
She was married to Peter the third after Empress Elizabeth wanted to keep her family in power of Russia. -
Catherine becomes leader of Russia
Catherine had her husband arrested and put into jail where he was eventually killed months later. She then became the ruler of Russia because of this. -
Gained Chunk of Poland
Poland signs a partition giving 3 other countries a piece their land. Russia was one of those countries. -
Serf's Rebellion War
There was no specific date of the rebelion. The life of the Russian peasents were very tough which caused mass anger which lead to rebellion. Catherine and her army crushed the revolt. -
Peace Treaty with Ottoman's
After two wars the Russians and Ottoman's came ro an agreement to give Catherine the Great the northshore of the black sea. -
Death
This was when she died after suffering a stroke.