In 1564 Ivan Fyodorov printed the Apostol in Moscow, and Shakespeare was born in England.

1564

Ivan the Terrible was 33 at the time.

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• Ivan Fyodorov's Apostol1564 · Print Yard, Moscow. On 1 March 1564 Ivan Fyodorov and Pyotr Mstislavets finished printing the Apostol, the first precisely dated book printed in Russia. Fyodorov later worked in Lviv and Ostroh, where he printed the Ostrog Bible.

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