1770 in Russia
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{{Year in Russia|1770}}
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File:Chesmabattle.jpg: Battle of Chesma, painting by Ivan Aivazovsky]]
Events in the year 1770 in Russia.
Incumbents
Events
- Russo-Turkish war
- January – Russian troops in Focșani witness the first signs of a plague{{Cite journal |last=Sorokina |first=Tatiana |title=A victory over the plague in Moscow 1770-1772 |url=https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26050284/ |journal=Vesalius: Acta Internationales Historiae Medicinae |year=2013 |volume=19 |issue=1 |pages=11–18 |issn=1373-4857 |pmid=26050284}}
- 5–7 July – Battle of Chesma; The Russian fleet defeats the Ottoman fleet in Çeşme Bay near Çeşme{{Cite web |title=Battle of Çeşme {{!}} Turkish history {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/event/Battle-of-Cesme |access-date=2022-09-19 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}
- 7 July – Battle of Larga; Russians defeat the Crimeans and Ottomans on the banks of the Larga River
- 1 August – Battle of Kagul; In the Kagul River near Cahul, in southern Moldavia, now Moldova, Russians score a land victory against Crimea and the Ottoman Empire.{{cite book |last=Archer |first=Christon |url=https://archive.org/details/worldhistoryofwa00arch |title=World History of Warfare |publisher=U of Nebraska Press |year=2002 |isbn=9780803244238 |page=[https://archive.org/details/worldhistoryofwa00arch/page/444 444] |url-access=registration}}
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