Battle of Molodi
A year after Moscow burned, the Crimean horde is crushed
In 1571 the Crimean khan Devlet Giray burned Moscow, and in the summer of 1572 he returned with a huge army, hoping to subdue the Russian state. At the village of Molodi south of Moscow, Prince Mikhail Vorotynsky's regiments destroyed the horde in several days of fighting; no raid on that scale was ever repeated.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- 1565 Great Siege of Malta — 7 years earlier
- 1568–1648 Dutch Revolt — 4 years earlier
- 1571 Battle of Lepanto — 1 year earlier
- 1572 St Bartholomew's Day Massacre — same year
- 1582 Gregorian calendar — 10 years later
Africa
- 1591 Battle of Tondibi and fall of Songhai — 19 years later
Asia
- 1556 Shaanxi earthquake — 16 years earlier
- 1556 Akbar and the Second Battle of Panipat — 16 years earlier
- 1592–1598 Imjin War — 20 years later
Alive at the time
- Ivan the Terrible (aged 42)
- Elizabeth I (aged 39)
- Akbar the Great (aged 30)
- Tokugawa Ieyasu (aged 29)
- Miguel de Cervantes (aged 25)
- William Shakespeare (aged 8)
- Galileo Galilei (aged 8)
- Selim II (aged 48)
- Philip II of Spain (aged 45)
- Yermak Timofeyevich (aged 40)