Siege of Kazan
Ivan IV annexes the khanate and gains the Volga
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Ivan IV's army stormed Kazan and annexed the Kazan Khanate to Muscovy. Russia gained the Volga and a road to the east; St Basil's Cathedral in Moscow was built to commemorate the victory.
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Ivan the Terrible, the Mughal emperor Akbar and Elizabeth I were contemporaries: from 1558 to 1584 all three reigned at the same time.
Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- 1534 Henry VIII breaks with Rome — 18 years earlier
- 1543 Copernicus publishes heliocentrism — 9 years earlier
- 1571 Battle of Lepanto — 19 years later
- 1572 St Bartholomew's Day Massacre — 20 years later
Africa
- 1529–1543 Ahmad Gragn invades Ethiopia — 23 years earlier
Asia
- 1556 Shaanxi earthquake — 4 years later
- 1556 Akbar and the Second Battle of Panipat — 4 years later
Americas
- 1532 Capture of Atahualpa at Cajamarca — 20 years earlier
- 1542 Orellana sails down the Amazon — 10 years earlier
- 1545–1548 Cocoliztli epidemic — 7 years earlier
Alive at the time
- Michelangelo (aged 77)
- Ivan the Terrible (aged 22)
- Elizabeth I (aged 19)
- Akbar the Great (aged 10)
- Tokugawa Ieyasu (aged 9)
- Miguel de Cervantes (aged 5)
- Bartolomé de las Casas (aged 68)
- Suleiman the Magnificent (aged 58)
- Charles V (aged 52)
- Hurrem Sultan (Roxelana) (aged 47)