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Name: Pugachev's Rebellion

Type: Event

Start: 1773 AD

End: 1773 AD

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Was a revolt that took place in the Russian Empire after Catherine II seized power in 1762.

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  • January 1773: 1773-1775: principal revolt in a series of popular rebellions that took place in the Russian Empire after Catherine II seized power in 1762. It began as an organized insurrection of Yaik Cossacks headed by Yemelyan Pugachev, a disaffected ex-lieutenant of the Imperial Russian Army, against a background of profound peasant unrest and war with the Ottoman Empire. .

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