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Ivan III (1440-1505), called Ivan the Great, was grand duke of Moscow from 1462 to 1505.
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The War of the League of Cambrai (1508-1510) was fought between Venice and an alliance that included the Emperor Maximilian, Pope Julius II, Louis XII of France and Ferdinand II of Aragon, and that despite never coordinating its attacks managed to conquer large parts of the Venetian mainland empire before falling apart.
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Francois I was crowned King of France in 1515 in the cathedral at Reims and reigned until 1547. He is considered to be France's first Renaissance monarch.
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Ivan came to the throne at age three and was crowned tsar at age sixteen on January 16, 1547. One reason why he claimed the named Ivan the Terrible was because, for twenty-two years the war of Sea expansion dragged on, damaging the Russian economy and military but winning it no territory.
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Ivan III (the Great) becomes grand prince of Muscovy and first Muscovite to use the titles of tsar and "Ruler if Rus'."
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Ivan sent an embassador to London, where Queen mary granted Russian merchants reciprocal privileges to trade in England.
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The Peace of Cateau-Cambrésis was signed between Henry II of France and Philip II of Spain on 3 April 1559, at Le Cateau-Cambrésis, around twenty kilometers south-east of Cambrai.
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Saint Bartholomew's Day, massacre of, murder of French Protestants, or Huguenots, that began in Paris on Aug. 24, 1572. It was preceded, on Aug. 22, by an attempt, ordered by Catherine de' Medici, on the life of the Huguenot leader Admiral Coligny.
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Fyodor was a son of Tsar Ivan IV, better known as Ivan “The Terrible” and his first wife, Anastasia.
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Henry IV was King of England and Lord of Ireland from 1399 to 1413 and asserted the claim of his grandfather, Edward III, to the Kingdom of France.
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By now, Ivan the Terrible dies; assumed to of gone mad.
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The Time of Troubles was a period of Russian history comprising the years of interregnum between the death of the last Russian Tsar of the Rurik Dynasty, Feodor Ivanovich, in 1598, and the establishment of the Romanov Dynasty in 1613.
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The Edict of Nantes, signed probably on 30 April 1598, by Henry IV of France, granted the Calvinist Protestants of France substantial rights in the nation, which was, at the time, still considered essentially Catholic.
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For a time she ruled France as its regent.
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Louis XII was a monarch of the House of Valois who ruled as King of France from 1498 to 1515 and King of Naples from 1501 to 1504.
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The Thirty Years' War was a series of wars in Central Europe between 1618 and 1648. It was one of the longest, most destructive conflicts in European history.
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Stephen was a Cossack leader who led a major uprising against the nobility and tsarist bureaucracy in southern Russia in 1670-1671.
