Ivan IV crowned Tsar
A grand prince takes the title of tsar for the first time
On 16 January 1547 Grand Prince Ivan IV was crowned in the Kremlin's Dormition Cathedral, the first to take the title of tsar. This created the Tsardom of Russia, which lasted until the empire was proclaimed in 1721.
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Ivan IV was crowned tsar in 1547, four years after Copernicus published that the Earth goes round the Sun.
Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- 1534 Henry VIII breaks with Rome — 13 years earlier
- 1543 Copernicus publishes heliocentrism — 4 years earlier
- 1571 Battle of Lepanto — 24 years later
- 1572 St Bartholomew's Day Massacre — 25 years later
Africa
- 1529–1543 Ahmad Gragn invades Ethiopia — 18 years earlier
Asia
- 1526 First Battle of Panipat — 21 years earlier
- 1556 Shaanxi earthquake — 9 years later
- 1556 Akbar and the Second Battle of Panipat — 9 years later
Americas
- 1532 Capture of Atahualpa at Cajamarca — 15 years earlier
- 1542 Orellana sails down the Amazon — 5 years earlier
- 1545–1548 Cocoliztli epidemic — 2 years earlier
Alive at the time
- Michelangelo (aged 72)
- Ivan the Terrible (aged 17)
- Elizabeth I (aged 14)
- Akbar the Great (aged 5)
- Tokugawa Ieyasu (aged 4)
- Miguel de Cervantes (aged 0)
- Bartolomé de las Casas (aged 63)
- Hernán Cortés (aged 62)
- Henry VIII (aged 56)
- Suleiman the Magnificent (aged 53)