Ivan Fyodorov's Apostol
The first precisely dated Russian printed book
On 1 March 1564 Ivan Fyodorov and Pyotr Mstislavets finished printing the Apostol, the first precisely dated book printed in Russia. Fyodorov later worked in Lviv and Ostroh, where he printed the Ostrog Bible.
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In 1564 Ivan Fyodorov printed the Apostol in Moscow, and Shakespeare was born in England. Ivan the Terrible was 33 at the time.
Ivan Fyodorov's Apostol (1564), the first precisely dated Russian printed book, came out more than a century after Gutenberg's press.
Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- 1543 Copernicus publishes heliocentrism — 21 years earlier
- 1571 Battle of Lepanto — 7 years later
- 1572 St Bartholomew's Day Massacre — 8 years later
- 1582 Gregorian calendar — 18 years later
- 1588 Defeat of the Spanish Armada — 24 years later
Asia
- 1556 Shaanxi earthquake — 8 years earlier
- 1556 Akbar and the Second Battle of Panipat — 8 years earlier
Americas
- 1542 Orellana sails down the Amazon — 22 years earlier
- 1545–1548 Cocoliztli epidemic — 19 years earlier
Alive at the time
- Michelangelo (aged 89)
- Ivan the Terrible (aged 34)
- Elizabeth I (aged 31)
- Akbar the Great (aged 22)
- Tokugawa Ieyasu (aged 21)
- Miguel de Cervantes (aged 17)
- William Shakespeare (aged 0)
- Galileo Galilei (aged 0)
- Bartolomé de las Casas (aged 80)
- Suleiman the Magnificent (aged 70)