Ivan the Terrible Dies
March 28, 1584
The aged tsar collapsed during a chess game in the Kremlin, his body ravaged by years of mercury treatments and paranoid rages. He had killed his own eldest son with an iron-tipped staff three years earlier. Russia passed to his simple-minded son Fyodor, with court factions already jockeying for power.
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Renaissance (1501–1650), one of 715 events from that era on Saeculum.
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