Saint Basil's Cathedral
Nine churches in one, built to mark the fall of Kazan
The Cathedral of the Intercession on Red Square was built in 1555–1561 on Ivan the Terrible's orders to celebrate the capture of Kazan. It later took the name of the holy fool Basil, who was buried beside it.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- 1534 Henry VIII breaks with Rome — 21 years earlier
- 1543 Copernicus publishes heliocentrism — 12 years earlier
- 1571 Battle of Lepanto — 16 years later
- 1572 St Bartholomew's Day Massacre — 17 years later
Asia
- 1556 Shaanxi earthquake — 1 year later
- 1556 Akbar and the Second Battle of Panipat — 1 year later
Americas
- 1532 Capture of Atahualpa at Cajamarca — 23 years earlier
- 1542 Orellana sails down the Amazon — 13 years earlier
- 1545–1548 Cocoliztli epidemic — 10 years earlier
Alive at the time
- Michelangelo (aged 80)
- Ivan the Terrible (aged 25)
- Elizabeth I (aged 22)
- Akbar the Great (aged 13)
- Tokugawa Ieyasu (aged 12)
- Miguel de Cervantes (aged 8)
- Bartolomé de las Casas (aged 71)
- Suleiman the Magnificent (aged 61)
- Charles V (aged 55)
- Hurrem Sultan (Roxelana) (aged 50)