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Nov 3, 1505
Ivan (III) the Great dies
Ivan III (1440-1505), called Ivan the Great, was grand duke of Moscow from 1462 to 1505. -
Nov 3, 1508
War of the League of Cambrai
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. -
Nov 3, 1515
Francois I reigns
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. -
Nov 3, 1533
Ivan the Terrible reigns
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. -
Nov 3, 1547
Ivan becomes first tsar
Ivan III (the Great) becomes grand prince of Muscovy and first Muscovite to use the titles of tsar and "Ruler if Rus'." -
Nov 3, 1555
Ivan signs a commercial treaty with England
Ivan sent an embassador to London, where Queen mary granted Russian merchants reciprocal privileges to trade in England. -
Nov 3, 1559
Cateau-Cambresis Treaty ends Italian Wars
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. -
Nov 3, 1562
French Wars of Religion
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Nov 3, 1572
St. Bartholomew Day Massacre
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. -
Fyodor Reigns
Fyodor was a son of Tsar Ivan IV, better known as Ivan “The Terrible” and his first wife, Anastasia. -
Henry IV reigns
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. -
Ivan the Terrible dies
By now, Ivan the Terrible dies; assumed to of gone mad. -
The "Time of Troubles" -famine struggles for power and war
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. -
Edict of Nantes
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. -
Marie d'Medici reigns
For a time she ruled France as its regent. -
Louis XII reigns
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. -
Thirty Year's War
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. -
The "Time of Troubles" -famine struggles for power and war
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Rebellion led by Cossak Stephen Razin
Stephen was a Cossack leader who led a major uprising against the nobility and tsarist bureaucracy in southern Russia in 1670-1671.
