Historical place archive

Tartu in History

Browse historical events and people recorded at Tartu in Russia. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.

2 records2 event labels2 people1704–1920

Historical events in Tartu

1704

24 June 1704
Capture of Tartu
Peter I the Great · Great Northern War

Four years after the first Battle of Narva, Peter I marched again in an attempt to capture Narva. Marshal Boris Sheremetevs force of 20,000 capture Tartu

1920

14 October 1920
Treaty of Tartu
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov Lenin · Government of Russia

Ends the Russo-Finnish war over Karelia, Finland makes a small territorial gain

Provenance

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