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Was a Crimean Tatar state, the longest-lived of the Turkic khanates that succeeded the empire of the Golden Horde. After intermittent periods of Ottoman vassalage, it was the Russian Empire that annexed the Khanate.
Establishment
January 1479: In 1478 the Crimean Khanate recognized Ottoman suzerainty.
Chronology
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Wars during the rule of Mehmed II in the Ottoman Sultanate.
Conquests and wars with Ottoman involvement during the rule of Suleiman I.
August 1521: In July 1521 there was a Crimean campaign against the Muscovite Empire.
January 1524: The Khanate of Astrakhan was twice briefly occupied by Mehmed I Giray, a prominent ruler of the Crimean Khanate, which was a vassal state of the Ottoman Empire. This occurred in 1523 as part of the ongoing power struggles in the region.
January 1538: Crimean Tatar raid in Central Europe and Russia in 1538.
January 1550: Khanate of Astrakhan conquered by turkey.
January 1560: Crimean Tatar raid in Central Europe and Russia in 1560.
Was a series of wars fought between the Grand Duchy of Moscow and the Khanate of Kazan from 1439, until Kazan was finally conquered by the Tsardom of Russia under Ivan the Terrible in 1552.
3.1.Wars of Vasily III
Russian military campaign against the Khanate of Kazan by Vasily III.
September 1521: End of the Crimean campaign against the Muscovites.
January 1524: Expansion of the Grand Duchy of Moscow by 1524.
Expansion during the rule of Murad III in the Ottoman Empire.
January 1576: Crimean Tatar raid in Central Europe and Russia in 1576.
The Crimean Tatars repeatedly undertook campaigns to Central Europe and Russia in the XVI and XVII centuries.
February 1576: Crimean Tatar raid in Central Europe and Russia in 1576. After the raid the Tatars left these territories.
January 1577: Crimean Tatar raid in Central Europe and Russia in 1577.
February 1577: Crimean Tatar raid in Central Europe and Russia in 1577. After the raid the Tatars left these territories.
January 1580: Crimean Tatar raid in Central Europe and Russia in 1580.
February 1580: Crimean Tatar raid in Central Europe and Russia in 1580. After the raid the Tatars left these territories.
January 1590: Crimean Tatar raid in Central Europe and Russia in 1590.
February 1590: Crimean Tatar raid in Central Europe and Russia in 1590. After the raid the Tatars left these territories.
January 1594: Crimean Tatar raid in Central Europe and Russia in 1594.
February 1594: Crimean Tatar raid in Central Europe and Russia in 1594. After the raid the Tatars left these territories.
January 1617: Crimean Tatar raid in Central Europe and Russia in 1617.
February 1617: Crimean Tatar raid in Central Europe and Russia in 1617. After the raid the Tatars left these territories.
January 1641: Crimean Tatar raid in Central Europe and Russia in 1641. After the raid the Tatars left these territories.
January 1641: Crimean Tatar raid in Central Europe and Russia in 1641.
February 1641: Crimean Tatar raid in Central Europe and Russia in 1641. After the raid the Tatars left these territories.
February 1641: Crimean Tatar raid in Central Europe and Russia in 1641.
January 1667: Crimean Tatar raid in Central Europe and Russia in 1667. After the raid the Tatars left these territories.
January 1667: Crimean Tatar raid in Central Europe and Russia in 1667.
February 1667: Crimean Tatar raid in Central Europe and Russia in 1667. After the raid the Tatars left these territories.
February 1667: Crimean Tatar raid in Central Europe and Russia in 1667.
January 1668: Crimean Tatar raid in Central Europe and Russia in 1668. After the raid the Tatars left these territories.
January 1668: Crimean Tatar raid in Central Europe and Russia in 1668.
February 1668: Crimean Tatar raid in Central Europe and Russia in 1668. After the raid the Tatars left these territories.
February 1668: Crimean Tatar raid in Central Europe and Russia in 1668.
January 1682: Crimean Tatar raid in Central Europe and Russia in 1682.
February 1682: Crimean Tatar raid in Central Europe and Russia in 1682. After the raid the Tatars left these territories.
January 1689: Crimean Tatar raid in Central Europe and Russia in 1689.
February 1689: Crimean Tatar raid in Central Europe and Russia in 1689. After the raid the Tatars left these territories.
Was a period of political crisis during the Tsardom of Russia which began in 1598 with the death of Fyodor I, the last of the Rurik dynasty, and ended in 1613 with the accession of Michael I of the House of Romanov.
6.1.Polish-Muscovite War (1605-1618)
Was a conflict fought between the Tsardom of Russia and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth together with Zaporozhian Cossacks.
6.1.1.Truce of Deulino
Was the treaty that ended the Polish-Muscovite War (1609-1618) with notable Polish territorial gains.
January 1619: With the Truce of Deulino at the end of the Polish-Muscovite War (1605-1618), Russia ceded various territories to Poland-Lithuania. The Commonwealth gained control over the Smolensk and Chernihiv Voivodeships.
A series of wars fought in northern and northeastern Europe from the 16th to the 18th century.
7.1.Russo-Polish War (1654-1667)
Was a major conflict between the Tsardom of Russia and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth that ended with significant Russian territorial gains.
7.1.1.Truce of Andrusovo
The Truce of Andrusovo established a thirteen-and-a-half year truce, signed in 1667 between the Tsardom of Russia and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, which had fought the Russo-Polish War since 1654 over the territories of modern-day Ukraine and Belarus.
January 1667: During the 1667 truce of Andrusovo, the region of Zaporizhzhia fell under condominium of both the Tsardom of Muscovy and the Kingdom of Poland.
Were a series of conflicts between the Ottoman Empire and the Habsburg Domains. The conflicts started with the partition of Hungary between the Ottomans and the Habsburgs after the Battle of Mohács (1526).
8.1.Great Turkish War
Was a series of conflicts between the Ottoman Empire and the Holy League consisting of the Holy Roman Empire, Poland-Lithuania, Venice, Russia, and Habsburg Hungary.
8.1.1.Russo-Turkish War (1686-1700)
Was a war between the Ottoman Empire and the Tsardom of Russia that began after the Tsardom of Russia joined the European anti-Turkish coalition (Habsburg monarchy, Poland-Lithuania, Venice) in 1686, after Poland-Lithuania agreed to recognize Russian incorporation of Kiev and the left bank of Ukraine.
June 1687: In 1687, during the First Crimean Campaign, the Russians, led by Tsar Ivan V, reached the Konskiye Vody river in Crimea.
June 1687: On 17 June the Russians decided to turn back from Crimea.
May 1689: Second crimean campaign: by 3 May they were at the point where the 1687 expedition had turned back.
May 1689: On 20 May the Russian army reached the isthmus of Perekop.
June 1689: Because the Tatars had dug a 7 km ditch which made moving the artillery forward impossible, Prince Vasily Golitsyn ordered the Russian army to turn back from their campaign in the Crimean Khanate.
July 1696: The Azov garrison surrendered on July 19 to Russian forces.
8.2.Austro-Russian-Turkish War (1735-39)
Was a war mainly between Russia and the Ottoman Empire.
May 1736: On May 28, 1736, Field Marshal Münnich's main army (about 50,000 strong) broke through the defense line and captured the same city.
July 1736: The city of Bachchysaraj, seat of the Crimean Tatar Khans, was devastated along with the peninsula before Münnich had to return to Ukraine due to supply shortages and diseases that had occurred in his army.
August 1736: The city of Bachchysaraj, seat of the Crimean Tatar Khans, was devastated along with the peninsula before Münnich had to return to Ukraine due to supply shortages and diseases that had occurred in his army.
July 1737: In 1737, Russian General Burkhard Christoph von Münnich led the military occupation of Očakiv, now in Ukraine. He swiftly captured the city without a formal siege by launching a sudden attack on 10 July.
August 1737: In july the Russian Army managed to break into Crimea.
September 1737: The Russian Army leaves central Crimea including Bachčysaraj.
August 1738: General Lacy, who with 35,000 men had to proceed again towards the Crimea to conquer the city of Caffa, occupied Perekop in July.
January 1739: The Ochakiv fortress had to be left to the Turks again that year without fighting.
Was a war between the Russian Empire and the Ottoman Empire. The Russian Empire was victorious and ceded territories in Ukraine to Russia. The Crimean Khanate became a Russian protectorate.
9.1.Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca
Was the treaty that ended the Russo-Turkish War (1768-1774). The Ottomans ceded territories in modern-day Ukraine to Russia, and the Crimean Khanate became a Russian protectorate.
July 1774: In 1774, the Ottoman Empire ceded the seaports of Azov and Kerch to the Russian Empire as part of the Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca. This treaty was signed by representatives of the Ottoman Empire and Russia, marking a significant shift in power dynamics in the region.
July 1774: In 1774, as part of the Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca, Russia gained territory between the rivers Dnieper and Southern Bug from the Ottoman Empire. The Porte, referring to the Ottoman Empire, renounced its claims to Kabarda in the North Caucasus. This treaty was signed by Catherine the Great of Russia and Sultan Abdul Hamid I of the Ottoman Empire.
July 1774: The Ochakiv area passed to direct control of the Ottoman Empire.
January 1517: Crimean Tatar raid in Central Europe and Russia in 1517.
February 1517: Crimean Tatar raid in Central Europe and Russia in 1517. After the raid the Tatars left these territories.
February 1524: In 1524, the Khanate of Astrakhan was briefly occupied by Crimea under the leadership of Mehmed I Giray. Mehmed I Giray was a prominent Crimean Khan who sought to expand his territory into the Astrakhan Khanate.
February 1538: Crimean Tatar raid in Central Europe and Russia in 1538. After the raid the Tatars left these territories.
February 1550: Khanate of Astrakhan conquered by Astrakhan Khanate.
February 1560: Crimean Tatar raid in Central Europe and Russia in 1560. After the raid the Tatars left these territories.
January 1625: In 1624, an unsuccessful uprising against the Ottoman Sultan was led by Khan Mehmed I Giray of the Crimean Khanate.
January 1629: In 1624, an unsuccessful uprising was led by Khan Mehmed IV Giray against the Ottoman Sultan Murad IV. However, in 1628, Khan Mehmed IV Giray submitted once again to the Ottoman Empire, solidifying the Crimean Khanate's allegiance to the Ottomans.
Disestablishment
July 1774: In 1774, the Ottoman Empire ceded the seaports of Azov and Kerch to the Russian Empire as part of the Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca. This treaty was signed by representatives of the Ottoman Empire and Russia, marking a significant shift in power dynamics in the region.
July 1774: In 1774, as part of the Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca, Russia gained territory between the rivers Dnieper and Southern Bug from the Ottoman Empire. The Porte, referring to the Ottoman Empire, renounced its claims to Kabarda in the North Caucasus. This treaty was signed by Catherine the Great of Russia and Sultan Abdul Hamid I of the Ottoman Empire.
July 1774: The Ochakiv area passed to direct control of the Ottoman Empire.
Selected Sources
Zeuske, M. (2013): Handbuch Geschichte der Sklaverei. Eine Globalgeschichte von den Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart, De Gruyter, Berlin p. 470ff.
Атлас 7 класс История России 16 - конец 17 века (Atlas, 7th grade, History of Russia, 16th - end of the 17th century.) , Дрофа Publisher (2015), Moscow (Russia), p. 2
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Crimean Khanate (Ottoman Empire)
