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1547
Married Anastasia Romanova
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1549
Reformed tax collections
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1550
Revised the law of code to replace the one from 1497
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1554
Birth of Ivan's first son
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1556
Ivan's armies defeated the Tartar khanates of Astrakhan
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1557
Birth of Ivan's son Foedor I
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1558
Went to war with Livonians
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1560
wife died
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1564
Ivan fled and gained absolute power
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1565
Implemented the Oprichnina
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1570
Led troops to Novgorod and destroyed their city
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1581
killed his oldest son
