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Ivan the Terrible was born on August 25, 1530 in Kolomenskoye, Moscow, Russia. His father was Vasili III of Russia and his mother was Elena Glinskaya. His father died when he was only 3 years old and his mother ruled as regent until her death in 1538 when Ivan was 8 years old.
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In 1533 in Peru, Francisco Pizarro conquers the Incan Empire.
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In England in 1534, Henry VIII breaks away from the church.
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Growing up in 1539, there was evidence that Ivan was a sensitive and intelligent boy who was neglected and often abused by members of the nobility who looked after him after his parents passed away. He began to hate on the boyar class for how he treated him and suspected they were involved in his mother's death.
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In Ivan's first year of becoming Czar in 1547, he got married to his fire wife, Anastasiya Romanova.
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Ivan the Terrible was the first Grand Prince to become Russia's Czar of Muscovy at the young age of 16 in 1547. Moscow became the capital of Russia when he was crowned Czar the same year.
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In 1552, he defeated the armies of Kazan and Astrakhan and gained control over them extending Russia east. Soon after, he built the St. Basil's Cathedral.
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In 1553 in Englandm, Roman Catholicism is restored by Queen Mary I.
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In 1556 in India, Akbar the Great becomes Mogul emporer of India, and conquers Afghanistan in 1581.
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Ivan put regulations on the Boyar class in service of his crown such as confiscating their property, and granted state property to those who served him.
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In 1560, his first wife Anastasiya died and that was the end of his good period. He blamed the Boyars for murdering his wife, so had to get revenge.
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In 1565, he arranged the Opritchniki Police group, The job of the secret police was to find people who were supposedly plotting against the Tsar then confiscate their lands and put the guilty people to death.
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In 1568, Protestant Netherlands revolt against Catholic Spain.
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In 1581, Ivan The Terrible killed his only son in a fit of a rage, because of the Livonian War.
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In 1583, William of Orange rules the Netherlands.
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On March 18, 1584, Ivan The Terrible died in Moscow, Russia due to health condition failures.
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