Ivan III's law code
One law for the Muscovite state, and St George's Day
The first law code for all of Muscovy set a single procedure for courts and fees. Its best-known article limited peasants' moves between landlords to a week either side of St George's Day in autumn, a first step towards serfdom.
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Ivan III's law code (1497) appeared three years after Spain and Portugal divided the world between them at Tordesillas.
Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- 1492 Fall of Granada — 5 years earlier
- 1494 Treaty of Tordesillas — 3 years earlier
- 1508–1512 Sistine Chapel ceiling — 11 years later
- 1517 Luther's Ninety-five Theses — 20 years later
Middle East
- 1501 Founding of Safavid Iran — 4 years later
- 1520–1566 Reign of Suleiman the Magnificent — 23 years later
Africa
- 1488 Dias rounds the Cape of Good Hope — 9 years earlier
Asia
- 1498 Vasco da Gama reaches India — 1 year later
- 1511 Portuguese capture of Malacca — 14 years later
Americas
- 1492 Columbus reaches the Americas — 5 years earlier
- 1519–1522 Magellan's circumnavigation — 22 years later
- 1521 Fall of Tenochtitlan — 24 years later
Alive at the time
- Christopher Columbus (aged 46)
- Leonardo da Vinci (aged 45)
- Nicolaus Copernicus (aged 24)
- Michelangelo (aged 22)
- Martin Luther (aged 14)
- Ivan III (aged 57)
- Isabella I of Castile (aged 46)
- Henry VII (aged 40)
- Maximilian I (aged 38)
- Moctezuma II (aged 31)