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Sep 25, 1530
Ivan the Terrible was born
Ivan the Terrible or Ivan Grozny was born near Moscow on August 25th, 1530. -
Period: Sep 25, 1530 to Sep 25, 1547
Childhood
Ivan came to thrown at the age of three because of his fathers death and his mother was also later killed by boyars causing Ivan the 4th to hate them. -
Sep 25, 1547
Ivan the 4th becoming Tsar
Ivan was the first Russian ruler to become tsar at the age of 16 an also married his wife -
Period: May 29, 1558 to May 29, 1582
The Livonian War
• In 1558 he went to war to attempt establish Russian rule over Livonia but the war dragged on because of their ally Lithuania • The Crimean Tatars attacked astrakhan and even made it to Moscow where they burned it in 1571 Russia lost all of it gains but the war concluded in 1582 -
Sep 25, 1560
Death of wife
Ivan the Terrible wife died in 1560 causing Ivan to become frustrated also being increasingly mad because of the increasing losses in his war -
Period: Oct 10, 1565 to Oct 10, 1572
The Oprichnina
Started in 1565 because Ivan the terrible got butthurt and at the lost the Livonian war in 1572 and for 7 years started killing people -
Ivan the Terrible died
Ivan the 4th died on march 18th, 1584 and was 53 years old. Ivan died because of a stroke while playing chess. due to his death he left his thrown to his other son that was unfit to serve and caused mass famine and death to the people of Russia.
