1571

Crimean Tatars Burn Moscow

1571

The Crimean khan Devlet I Giray led a raiding army to the gates of Moscow and set the wooden city alight. Flames killed tens of thousands trapped between the walls and the Oka River. Ivan the Terrible watched from a distant estate, trembling. His oprichnina was beginning to come apart.

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Before and after in Europe

Before: 1570: Abraham Ortelius Atlas
After: April 1, 1572: Sea Beggars Capture Brielle

Before and after in Disaster

Before: 1564: Plague Closes English Theaters
After: 1580: Plague Sweeps Venice

Era

Renaissance (1501–1650), one of 715 events from that era on Saeculum.