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Ivan the terrible is born into the Vasilyevich family. His father,Vasily III of Russia was the grand prince of russia. His mother, Elena Glinskaya was the second wife of Vasily and after he died became ruler for five years.
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Pizarro travels to peru to explore. He found the incans. He came back with the premission from spain to fight the incans so he took 180 men and attacked after capturing the leader killing thousands.
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Jaqcues Cartier was send to North america to explore. He land and searched the land he then cliamed it as frances to setup colonies.
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Ivan's father dies when ivan is only 3 putting his mother in power. Ivan could not fend for himself at such a young age. His mother had some successes
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Ivans mother dies when he is just at the age of 8. This time Ivan and his brother are confined into the kremlin. There the nobles treat them poorly and they are not treated fairly. He isn't fed well. All this contributes to his unfairness.
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Three portuguese ships land in japan. They were the first europeans to land here. The portuguese sold the japanese modern tools that they used.
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Ivan at the age of 17 claims that he is ready to rule. He announce that he would be czar which meant caesar. He was the first to do this. Ivan start out his rule by getting revenge at all the nobles that treated him poorly
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60,000 of Ivan's men attack kazan. They didn't have any success. Then Ivan had to retreat due to the ground turning to mud. Then again he attacked with success. He over threw he city taking over the city
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The elizabethian age led the way for new ideas and innovations. It was the golden age in european history. It was all based on social statis. Each class lived and was treated differently.
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Elizabeth acsends to the throne. She restores protestantism. Establishes a state of church.
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Warfare between swedish, poland and lithuans and russia. Russia gained no land at all but the war kept going. In the 1560s heavy military losses took a toll on russia. Russia's most wealthy areas grew deserted.
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Ivan left russia and the people panicked and called him back. He said he would if he had absolute power and he could punsh those who oppose him. The oprichnina was his form of punishment. But they became like his own personal army. They became to hurt anyone they wanted.
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Ivan started to fight in siberia. This led the way for much wealth for russia in the 1600s and 1700s.
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Ivan was becoming more erratic. He began to drink heavily and have fits about religion. He got so mad once that he killed his eldest son. By hitting him with a pointed staff. He began to move from one wife to another
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The year that Ivan died he became very religous. He became a monk and then died. It is suspect that he was poisoned becuase high amounts of mercury was found in his blood.
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Roanoke was founded on roanoke island in North Carolina. It was an attempt by queen elizabeth to establish a colony in america. But it did not work because everyone in the colony dissappear. There not a trace of anyone living there
