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Birth
Catherine was born in Settin, Prussia in 1729. -
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Catherine the Great
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Marriage to the Grand Duke
She married the Grand Duke of Russia, He was proven to be unstable and Catherine used this weakness to take the thrown. -
Death of Empress Elizabeth
After the empress died the only person in Catherines way of the thrown was her husband. -
Catherine is crowned
She is crowned after the death of her husband. It was investogated that she may have murdered her husband but there is no solid evidence. -
Economic solution
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Expansion of borders
(1768- 1774) She expanded her borders through Poland and gain access to the Black sea. -
Death
She was found dead on the floor, thought to have suffered from a stroke.
