Catherine the Great

The Parlement of Paris, a court rather than a legislature, ruled against the Society in a bankruptcy case in 1762, influenced by secular notables.

Catherine the Great forbade the publication of the papal brief, allowing Jesuits to survive in her territories.

Pope Clement XIV suppressed the Society as a fait accompli via the brief Dominus ac Redemptor on 21 July 1773 in Rome.

Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor, expelled the Jesuits from his territories; the supplied evidence gives no year for this action.

Catherine the Great founded the Novodevichii Institute in Moscow in 1765 to provide formal education for girls.

Catherine the Great commissioned the statue; Diderot suggested Falconet, who spent twelve years, 1770 to 1782, creating it.

Fourteen years after pedestal excavation began, the finished statue was unveiled on 7 August 1782 before thousands of attendees.

Russia and the Ottomans signed the peace treaty at Küçük Kaynarca on 21 July 1774, granting major concessions after the Ottoman defeat at Kozludzha.

After remaining nominally independent but dependent on Russia, the Crimean Khanate was formally annexed by Catherine the Great in 1783.

The legacy claim of an Ottoman agreement to the annexation in a Treaty of Constantinople dated 6 January 1784 finds no support in the supplied passages.

Heraclius II laid Kartli-Kakheti's investiture in Russian hands, making the kingdom a protectorate while abjuring dependence on Iran or any other power.

Emissaries of Russia and Kartli-Kakheti signed the bilateral treaty at the fortress of Georgievsk in the North Caucasus on 24 July 1783.

Two Russian infantry battalions with four artillery pieces reached Tbilisi in 1784 but were withdrawn in 1787 despite frantic Georgian protests.

After Agha Mohammad Khan Qajar emerged, Iran demanded Heraclius II renounce the treaty and re-accept Persian suzerainty; his refusal led to invasion and the sack of Tbilisi.

Russia effectively scrapped the treaty in 1801, incorporating Georgian lands directly into the Russian Empire and deposing the Georgian monarchy.

Shelekhov reached Kodiak Island in 1784 with two ships and about 130 fur traders.

Shelekhov founded Russia's first permanent settlement in Alaska at Three Saints Bay in 1784.

Shelikhov's traders massacred several hundred Alutiiq people at Refuge Rock in 1784.

The settlement moved to the site of present-day Kodiak in 1792, becoming the fur trade center.

Empress Catherine the Great issued the Charter to the Towns in 1785, distributing the population into six groups to limit noble power and create a middle estate.

On 16 November 1796 Catherine rose early, worked on papers, and told her maid she had slept well.

Catherine suffered a stroke on 17 November 1796 and died without regaining consciousness.

Paul I Petrovich succeeded Catherine as Emperor of Russia in 1796, reigning until his assassination in 1801.

Per the legacy record, Catherine the Great signed an agreement with Great Britain in September 1796, formally bringing Russia into the coalition fighting France; the supplied passages do not document the accord.