Establishment of the Moscow Patriarchate
The Russian Church gains rank equal to the Eastern patriarchates
In January 1589, with Patriarch Jeremias II of Constantinople taking part, Metropolitan Job was installed as the first Patriarch of Moscow. The Russian Church gained a rank equal to the eastern patriarchates.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- 1572 St Bartholomew's Day Massacre — 17 years earlier
- 1582 Gregorian calendar — 7 years earlier
- 1588 Defeat of the Spanish Armada — 1 year earlier
- 1598 Edict of Nantes — 9 years later
- 1600 East India Company founded — 11 years later
Africa
- 1591 Battle of Tondibi and fall of Songhai — 2 years later
Asia
- 1592–1598 Imjin War — 3 years later
- 1600 Battle of Sekigahara — 11 years later
Americas
- 1600 Eruption of Huaynaputina — 11 years later
- c. 1605–1694 Quilombo of Palmares — 16 years later
- 1607 Founding of Jamestown — 18 years later
- 1609 Jesuit reductions among the Guaraní — 20 years later
Alive at the time
- Elizabeth I (aged 56)
- Akbar the Great (aged 47)
- Tokugawa Ieyasu (aged 46)
- Miguel de Cervantes (aged 42)
- William Shakespeare (aged 25)
- Galileo Galilei (aged 25)
- Philip II of Spain (aged 62)
- Toyotomi Hideyoshi (aged 52)
- Ashikaga Yoshiaki (aged 52)
- Yi Sun-sin (aged 44)