Tyumen founded
The first Russian town in Siberia
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A few years after Yermak's campaign, the voivodes Vasily Sukin and Ivan Myasnoy built a fort on the Tura river by the old Tatar town of Chingi-Tura. Tyumen became the first Russian town in Siberia and the gateway for the push further east.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- 1572 St Bartholomew's Day Massacre — 14 years earlier
- 1582 Gregorian calendar — 4 years earlier
- 1588 Defeat of the Spanish Armada — 2 years later
- 1598 Edict of Nantes — 12 years later
- 1600 East India Company founded — 14 years later
Africa
- 1591 Battle of Tondibi and fall of Songhai — 5 years later
Asia
- 1592–1598 Imjin War — 6 years later
- 1600 Battle of Sekigahara — 14 years later
Americas
- 1600 Eruption of Huaynaputina — 14 years later
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- Elizabeth I (aged 53)
- Akbar the Great (aged 44)
- Tokugawa Ieyasu (aged 43)
- Miguel de Cervantes (aged 39)
- William Shakespeare (aged 22)
- Galileo Galilei (aged 22)
- Philip II of Spain (aged 59)
- Stephen Báthory (aged 53)
- Toyotomi Hideyoshi (aged 49)
- Ashikaga Yoshiaki (aged 49)