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1547
domestic policy
Despite calamities triggered by the Great Fire of 1547, the early part of Ivan's reign was one of peaceful reforms and modernization. Ivan revised the law code, creating the Sudebnik of 1550 -
Feb 3, 1547
Ivans marrige
Ivan the Terrible married Anastasia Romanovna on February 03, 1547; their marriage lasted 13 years till August 07, 1560. -
Period: 1550 to 1581
Ivans children
Feodor I of Russia (Son) · Dmitry of Uglich (Son) · Tsarevich Ivan Ivanovich of Russia (Son) · Tsarevich Dmitry Ivanovich of Russia (Son) · Tsarevna Eudoxia Ivanovna (Daughter) · Tsarevna Anna Ivanovna (Daughter) · Tsarevna Maria Ivanovna (Daughter) · Tsarevich Vasili Ivanovich (Son) -
Period: 1550 to 1560
the printing press in russia
By Ivan's order in 1553 the Moscow Print Yard was established and the first printing press was introduced to Russia. The 1550s and 1560s saw the printing of several religious books in Russian. The new technology provoked discontent with traditional scribes, which led to the Print Yard being burned in an arson attack and the first Russian printers Ivan Fedorov and Pyotr Mstislavets being forced to flee from Moscow to the Grand Duchy of Lithuania -
Period: 1560 to
Reign of Terror
Upon the death of his first wife in 1560, Ivan IV went into a deep depression and his behavior became more erratic. His suspicion that she had been murdered by the boyars only deepened his paranoia. He left Moscow suddenly and threatened to abdicate the throne. Leaderless, the Muscovites pleaded for his return. He also demanded the authority to punish traitors and law breakers with execution and confiscation of property. -
1580
Conquest of Siberia
In 1580 Yermak started his conquest of Siberia. With some 540 Cossacks he started to penetrate territories that were tributary to Kuchum. Yermak pressured and persuaded the various family-based tribes to change their loyalties and become tributaries of Russia.Yermak's conquest expanded Ivan's empire to the east and allowed him to style himself "Tsar of Siberia" in the tsar's very last years. -
1581
Ivans dead son
In 1581 Ivan beat his pregnant daughter-in-law for wearing immodest clothing, and this may have caused a miscarriage. His oldest son, also named Ivan, upon learning of this, engaged in a heated argument with his father, resulting in Ivan striking his son in the head with his pointed staff, causing his son's death. This event is depicted in the famous painting by Ilya Repin, Ivan the Terrible and his son Ivan on Friday, 16 November 1581 better known as Ivan the Terrible killing his son
