Poland+(Political)

1648-1668- Jan II Kazimierz
 * Succession of Rulers (1650-1750)**
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1669-1673- Michal Korybut


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1674-1696- Jan III
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1697-1706- August II Mocny


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1706-1709- Stanislaw I

1709-1733- August II Mocny (see 1697-1706)

1733-1736- Stanislaw I (see 1706-1709)
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1734-1763- August III Sas

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 * Quote From a Primary Source:** Jan III's letter to his wife after the victory of the Battle of Vienna: "Ours are treasures unheard of ... tents, sheep, cattle and no small number of camels ... it is victory as nobody ever knew of, the enemy now completely ruined, everything lost for them ======

=**Timeline**= = = = Khmelnytsky Uprising, 1648–1654 = = This largest of all Cossacks rebellions, led by Bohdan Khmelnytsky, proved disastrous for the Commonwealth. In the end, Commonwealth not only lost parts of its territory to Russia, but was weakened at the moment of invasion by Sweden. = = = = the Poles and Lithuanians had driven the Swedes from their territory by 1657. The swedes had invaded in 1648, when the Commonwealth was dealing with cossack rebellions, so Sweden invaded when the CW was weak. = = = = Treaty of Oliwa in 1660, John II of Poland finally renounced his claims to the Swedish Crown, which ended the feud between Sweden and the Commonwealth = = = = Truce of Andrusovo in 1667. Treaty between the commonwealth and Russia granting Russia part of the commonwealth’s lands (Smolensk, Chernigov, and parts of the Ukraine were given to Russia). This treaty ended the war between the two that had been going on since 1654. = = = = John III Sobieski 's most famous achievement was to deal crushing defeat to the Ottoman Empire in 1683 at the Battle of Vienna, which marked the final turning point in a 250-year struggle between the forces of Christian Europe and the Islamic Ottoman Empire Over the 16 years following the battle (the so-called Great Turkish War ), the Turks would be permanently driven south of the Danube River, never to threaten central Europe again. = = = = During Peter the Great’s reign (1682-1725), the commonwealth was dominated by Russia. Poland-Lithuania had been made a virtual protectorate of its eastern neighbor, retaining only the theoretical right to self-rule. = = = = The war of polish succession was fought from 1733-1735. In 1738 the treaty of Vienna gave Poland to Augustus III. = = -- = =**Rival Countries**- Russia, Sweden, Prussia, France, and Austria. = =-- =  == == === === ==== ====

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