19 January — Russian Emperor Peter II and his court moved to Moscow.
13 July — Russian navigator Vitus Bering set sail from Kamchatka to the north, where on 26 August he discovered the strait between America and Russia.
1 November — the Kyakhta Russo-Chinese Treaty was signed. In the trading outpost of Kyakhta (now the administrative center of the Kyakhtinsky District of the Republic of Buryatia), a treaty establishing the borders between Russia and China was concluded by the Russian envoy S. L. Vladislavich-Raguzinsky and the authorized representatives of the Chinese government Chabina, Tegut, and Tulišen; it fixed the Russo-Chinese border defined by the Bura Treaty of 1727.
30 November — Sergei Leontyevich Bukhvostov died, a Russian officer who in 1683 was the first to enlist in Peter the Great’s Preobrazhensky “play” regiment and was nicknamed by Peter “the first Russian soldier.”
