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Ivan the Terrible

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  • Ivan the Terribles birth
    Aug 25, 1533

    Ivan the Terribles birth

  • Nov 25, 1547

    Gets married to Anastasia Romanovna

  • Was crowned tsar (king) of Muscovy, Russia
    Nov 25, 1547

    Was crowned tsar (king) of Muscovy, Russia

  • Nov 25, 1552

    Ivan's armies crushed the Tartar khanates of Kazan and Astrakhan

    In 1552 and 1556, Ivan's armies crushed the Tartar khanates of Kazan and Astrakhan, respectively.
  • Nov 25, 1555

    Commissioned St.Basil Cathedral to be built

    Ivan commissioned St. Basil's Cathedral in Moscow's Red Square, built between 1555 and 1561, to commemorate the conquest of the Tatar city of Kazan
  • Ivan the Terribles death

    Ivan the Terribles death