In 1709 Sweden was defeated by this Russian czar in the Battle of Poltava, losing its dominance in the Baltic area

In 1540 a party led by Coronado became the first Europeans to see this Arizona natural wonder In 1589 he was made professor of mathematics at the University of Pisa; his contract wasn't renewed in 1592 In 1614 he returned to America & led an expedition that explored & mapped the coast of New England In 1633 Descartes suppressed his book The World because it supported the ideas of this Italian In 1719 this small principality was formed by consolidating the counties of Vaduz & Schellenberg In 1725 Peter the Great commissioned this Dane to explore the Pacific coast of Siberia In 1748 Lord Fairfax hired this 16-year-old to help survey his lands in the Shenandoah Valley In 1773 this ex-printer & inventor published Rules By Which A Great Empire May Be Reduced to A Small One