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| 1700 | Alliance |  |
| Baltic Sea Peter I, Augustus II & Frederick IV form a secret alliance against Charles XII |
| Baltic Peter I, Augustus II & Frederick IV form a secret alliance against Charles XII |
| 1700 | Battle of Narva | |
| 30th Nov Narva Seventeen-year-old Charles XII of Sweden leads 8,000 men against 80,000 besieging Russians and beats them soundly, the Swedes lose only 600 men |
| 1700 | Declaration of War | |
| Charles invades Zeeland & forces Denmark to sign treaty of Travenda |
| Sweden declares war on Denmark, Denmark invades Schleswig & Saxony invades Livonia |
| 1700 | Invasion of Livonia | |
| Livonia Sweden declares war on Denmark, Denmark invades Schleswig & Saxony invades Livonia |
| 6th Oct Livonia Charles XII lands in Livonia & relieves Narva |
| 13th Nov Livonia 13-19 Nov, Charles XII scatters Russian forces blocking the Swdeish route to Narva |
| 13th Nov Livonia Peter I & his Russian forces are forced to flee |
| 1700 | Invasion of Schleswig | |
| Schleswig Sweden declares war on Denmark, Denmark invades Schleswig & Saxony invades Livonia |
| 1700 | Invasion of Zealand | |
| 4th Aug Zealand Charles army & fleet advance on Copenhagen, the dDanes sue for peace |
| 1700 | Siege of Narva | |
| Narva Defeats the Russian forces besieging Narva |
| 1700 | Treaty of Travendal | |
| 18th Aug Travendal Denmark agrees against further hostilities against Sweden |
| 18th Aug Travendal Denmark returns Schleswig to the Duke of Holstein-Gottorp |
| 1701 | Capture | |
| Cracow Warsaw & Cracow fall to Charles XII during Great Northern War |
| Warsaw Warsaw & Cracow fall to Charles XII during Great Northern War |
| 1701 | Invasion of Poland | |
| Charles XII invades Poland, beginning a 6 yr string of victories over Saxony & Poland |
| Warsaw & Cracow fall to Charles XII during Great Northern War |
| 1701 | Siege of Riga | |
| Riga Charles XII relieves Riga from Saxony |
| Riga Saxony lays siege to Riga |
| 1706 | Battle of Grodno | |
| Grodno Defeats Peter the Great at Grodno, 1st time |
| 1708 | Battle of Grodno | |
| Grodno Defeats Peter the Great at Grodno, 2nd time |
| 1708 | Battle of Lesnaya | |
| Lesnaya The Swedes lose half of their 12,000 supplies escorting army near the Dneister River |
| 28th Sep Lesnaya Peter the Great captures Swedish supplies prior to Charles XII's defeat at Pultava |
| 1708 | Capture | |
| Mogilev Charles XII captures Mogilev en route to Moscow |
| 1708 | Invasion of Russia | |
| The Swedes winter in Minsk & advance on Moscow |
| 1st Jan Crosses the Vistula at the head of an army of 45,000 |
| 1708 | Siege of Moscow | |
| Moscow Defeats Augustus in Poland & marches with 40,000 troops on Moscow |
| 1709 | Battle of Poltava | |
| 25th May Poltava Charles XII learns he will get no support from the Cossacks, Tartars or Turks |
| 28th June Poltava Defeated by Peter the Great & forced to retreat to Turkey with an army of only 2,000 |
| 28th June Poltava Sweden loses possessions sth of the Baltic & ceases to be a major European power |
| 1709 | Siege of Pultava | |
| Sep Pultava Charles XII's remnant army of 20,000 lay siege to Pultava |
| 1710 | Alliance | |
| Turkey enters the War against Russia |
| 1710 | Declaration of War | |
| At the instigation of Charles XII of Sweden, Turkey declares war on Russia |
| 1712 | Defeat | |
| Russia & Denmark defeat Sweden in the Baltic & Scandinavia |
| 1713 | Arrest | |
| 1st Feb Brender Ottoman soldiers attack Charles XII in his camp in Moldavia & take him prisoner |
| 1718 | Assassination | |
| 11th Dec Fredriksten Shot in the head looking over a parapet close to the fortress of Fredriksten in Norway |
| 1718 | Death | |
| 11th Dec Fredriksten Death of Charles XII, assassinated |
