Feodor I
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1557 – 1598 · 41 years · Moscow · Eastern Europe & Russia
Reign: 1584 – 1598 (Rus and Russia)
Son of Ivan the Terrible, frail and pious; the country was effectively run by his brother-in-law Boris Godunov. The Moscow Patriarchate was created in 1589, and the Rurik dynasty died out with Feodor.
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Contemporaries around the world
Europe
- Elizabeth I — Queen of England, 24 years older
- Miguel de Cervantes — Spanish novelist, 10 years older
- William Shakespeare — English playwright and poet, 7 years younger
- Galileo Galilei — Italian physicist and astronomer, 7 years younger
- Philip II of Spain — King of Spain, 30 years older
- Rudolf II — patron emperor who gathered Kepler, Brahe and Arcimboldo in Prague, 5 years older
Eastern Europe & Russia
- Ivan the Terrible — first Tsar of Russia, 27 years older
- Yermak Timofeyevich — Cossack conqueror of Siberia, 25 years older
- False Dmitry I — pretender who claimed to be Tsarevich Dmitry, 24 years younger
- Boris Godunov — Tsar of Russia, 5 years older
- Vasily Shuisky — boyar tsar of the Time of Troubles who died in Polish captivity, 5 years older
- Dmitry Pozharsky — prince and militia leader, 21 years younger
Middle East
- Abbas the Great — Safavid Shah of Iran, 14 years younger
- Selim II — sultan who took Cyprus and lost at Lepanto, 33 years older
- Murad III — sultan who won the Caucasus from the Safavids, 11 years older
- Mehmed III — sultan who executed 19 brothers and won at Keresztes, 9 years younger
- Taqi ad-Din Muhammad ibn Ma'ruf — Ottoman astronomer and engineer, 31 years older
Africa
- Njinga of Ndongo and Matamba — Queen of Ndongo and Matamba, 26 years younger
- Ahmad al-Mansur — Sultan of Morocco, 8 years older
- Ahmed Baba — Timbuktu scholar, 1 year older
Asia
- Akbar the Great — Mughal emperor, 15 years older
- Tokugawa Ieyasu — first Tokugawa shogun, 14 years older
- Toyotomi Hideyoshi — unifier of Japan, 20 years older
- Yi Sun-sin — Korean admiral, 12 years older
- Matteo Ricci — Jesuit missionary in China, 5 years older
- Ashikaga Yoshiaki — last Ashikaga shogun, expelled by Nobunaga, 20 years older
Americas
- Inca Garcilaso de la Vega — chronicler, son of a conquistador and an Inca princess, 18 years older
- Samuel de Champlain — French explorer, 10 years younger
The world in their lifetime
- 1569 Union of Lublin — aged 12, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1571 Battle of Lepanto — aged 14, Europe
- 1572 St Bartholomew's Day Massacre — aged 15, Europe
- 1582 Gregorian calendar — aged 25, Europe
- 1582 Yermak's conquest of Sibir — aged 25, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1588 Defeat of the Spanish Armada — aged 31, Europe
- 1591 Battle of Tondibi and fall of Songhai — aged 34, Africa
- 1592–1598 Imjin War — aged 35, Asia
- 1598–1613 Time of Troubles — aged 41, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1598 Edict of Nantes — aged 41, Europe