Moscow Burns Books
1581
Ivan the Terrible, increasingly paranoid in his final years, ordered the burning of books he suspected of heretical influence and personally examined the libraries of executed nobles. A year later he would kill his own son in a rage and spend the remainder of his life trying to atone for that act.
In context
Also in 1581 (3 other events on record)
- Act of Abjuration · Europe · Politics
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- English Jesuit Mission Begins · Europe · Religion
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Era
Renaissance (1501–1650), one of 715 events from that era on Saeculum.