{"slug": "grand-duchy-of-moscow", "label": "Grand Duchy of Moscow", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Duchy_of_Moscow", "wikidata": null, "qid": null, "description": null, "entries": 32, "years": 30, "span": [1282, 1564], "span_label": ["1282 CE", "1564 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 15}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 4}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 3}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 3}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 3}, {"title": "Births", "count": 2}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}, {"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "ivan-iii-of-russia", "label": "Ivan III of Russia", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "grand-duchy-of-lithuania", "label": "Grand Duchy of Lithuania", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "moscow", "label": "Moscow", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "golden-horde", "label": "Golden Horde", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "english-people", "label": "English people", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "vladimir-russia", "label": "Vladimir, Russia", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "blue-horde", "label": "Blue Horde", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "persia", "label": "Persia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "safavid-dynasty", "label": "Safavid dynasty", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "ivan-the-terrible", "label": "Ivan the Terrible", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "lithuania", "label": "Lithuania", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "teutonic-knights", "label": "Teutonic Knights", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1282, "year_label": "1282 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "Daniel of Moscow, youngest son of Alexander Nevsky, is mentioned during this year as an independent Prince of the Grand Duchy of Moscow. This Duchy will be a vassal state of the Golden Horde until 1471, later evolving into the Tsardom of Russia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1359685493#Europe", "title": "1282", "revid": 1359685493, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 1288, "year_label": "1288 CE", "section": "Births", "date": "November 1", "text": "November 1 – Ivan I, Grand Duke of Moscow (d. 1341)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367964096#Births", "title": "1288", "revid": 1367964096, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 1325, "year_label": "1325 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "November 21", "text": "November 21 – Yuri III Danilovich, Grand Duke of Moscow, is assassinated by Dmitry of Tver, Grand Duke of Vladimir, nicknamed \"the Terrible Eyes\". Yuri's younger brother, Iván I Danilovich Kalitá, the Grand Duke of Vladimir, inherits Yuri's throne and relocates the spiritual capital of the Russian people to Moscow by directing the Metropolitan Peter to move his episcopal see from Kiev. The decision of both Ivan and Peter to relocate gradually makes Moscow the political center of Russia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366485647#October_–_December", "title": "1325", "revid": 1366485647, "section": "Events › October – December"}}, {"year": 1350, "year_label": "1350 CE", "section": "Births", "date": "October 12", "text": "October 12 – Dmitri Donskoi, Grand Duke of Muscovy and Vladimir (d. 1389)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1358971362#Births", "title": "1350", "revid": 1358971362, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 1363, "year_label": "1363 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "Dmitry Donskoy, Prince of the Grand Duchy of Moscow, dethrones Dmitry of Suzdal to become Grand Prince of Vladimir.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1292555096#Date_unknown", "title": "1363", "revid": 1292555096, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1366, "year_label": "1366 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Dmitri Donskoi, ruler of Moscow and Vladimir, makes peace with Dmitri Konstantinovich, former ruler of Vladimir.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361982215#Date_unknown", "title": "1366", "revid": 1361982215, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1368, "year_label": "1368 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "November 21", "text": "November 21 – King Algirdas of Lithuania and the Grand Duke Mikhail II of Tver defeat troops of the Grand Duchy of Moscow in the Battle of the Trosna River, and reach the outside of the Moscow Kremlin Wall that surrounds the capital, but find it to be insurmountable and are unable to mount a siege.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371792677#October–December", "title": "1368", "revid": 1371792677, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1375, "year_label": "1375 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Grand Duchy of Moscow and Tver sign a truce. Tver agrees to help Moscow fight the Blue Horde.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370334386#Date_unknown", "title": "1375", "revid": 1370334386, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1382, "year_label": "1382 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Khan Tokhtamysh of the Golden Horde overruns Muscovy, as punishment for Grand Prince Dmitry Donskoy's resistance to Khan Mamai of the Blue Horde in the 1370s. Dmitry Donskoy pledges his loyalty to Tokhtamysh, and is allowed to remain as ruler of Moscow and Vladimir.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367364320#Date_unknown", "title": "1382", "revid": 1367364320, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1386, "year_label": "1386 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Rozhdestvensky monastery is built in Muscovy.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1359789728#Date_unknown", "title": "1386", "revid": 1359789728, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1389, "year_label": "1389 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "May 19", "text": "May 19 – Vasili I becomes Grand Prince of Moscow after the death of his father, Dmitry Donskoy.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360559797#April–June", "title": "1389", "revid": 1360559797, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1391, "year_label": "1391 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Ushkuinik pirates from Novgorod sack the Muscovy towns of Zhukotin and Kazan.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365430899#Date_unknown", "title": "1391", "revid": 1365430899, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1391, "year_label": "1391 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "January 21", "text": "January 21 – Vytautas the Great, claimant to the throne of Lithuania, forges an alliance with the Grand Duchy of Moscow as his daughter, Sophia marries Vasily, Grand Prince of Muscovy.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365430899#January–March", "title": "1391", "revid": 1365430899, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1403, "year_label": "1403 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Grand Duke Vytautas ends his alliance with Muscovy, and captures Vyazma and Smolensk.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371593649#Date_unknown", "title": "1403", "revid": 1371593649, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1404, "year_label": "1404 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Peace is declared between Lithuania and the Teutonic Knights, after they agree to exchange land and form an alliance against Muscovy.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361962096#Date_unknown", "title": "1404", "revid": 1361962096, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1448, "year_label": "1448 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "December 15", "text": "December 15 – Jonas, a Russian bishop, is installed by the Council of Russian Bishops in Moscow, as Metropolitan of Kiev and All Rus. The event marks the independence of the Russian Orthodox Church because the election of Jonas is made without the approval of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople as this is without the consent of the Patriarch of Constantinople, it signifies the beginning of an effectively independent church structure in the Grand Duchy of Moscow.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367832753#October–December", "title": "1448", "revid": 1367832753, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1456, "year_label": "1456 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Muscovy and the Novgorod Republic conclude the Treaty of Yazhelbitsy.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371442849#Date_unknown", "title": "1456", "revid": 1371442849, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1471, "year_label": "1471 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "July 14", "text": "July 14 – At the Battle of Shelon, the forces of Muscovy defeat the Republic of Novgorod.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370196979#July–September", "title": "1471", "revid": 1370196979, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1480, "year_label": "1480 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "October 8", "text": "October 8 – The Great Stand on the Ugra River begins as troops of the Grand Duchy of Moscow, led by the Grand Duke Ivan III and General Ivan Molodoy battle against the invading Mongol armies of the Golden Horde, led by their ruling monarch, Akhmat Khan. The invasion began after Ivan III stopped paying tribute to the Horde. The Theotokos of Vladimir icon is credited with saving Moscow. The standoff between the troops lasts five weeks before Akhmat and the Mongol troops retreat.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370179650#October–December", "title": "1480", "revid": 1370179650, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1485, "year_label": "1485 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "September 8", "text": "September 8 – The army of the Grand Duchy of Moscow forces, led by Ivan III, invades the city of Tver, ruled by Mikhail III and capital of the Duchy of Tver. Within 10 days, Ivan is able to claim the Duchy.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364736343#July–September", "title": "1485", "revid": 1364736343, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1494, "year_label": "1494 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "February 5", "text": "February 5 – The war between the Grand Duchy of Moscow and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania ends after almost seven years, with the Tsar Ivan III signing a \"treaty of Eternal Peace\" with Lithuania's Grand Duke Alexander Jagiellon. Lithuania is guaranteed its independence in return for ceding its territories captured by Moscow.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1353371082#January–March", "title": "1494", "revid": 1353371082, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1501, "year_label": "1501 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "August 27", "text": "August 27 – Battle of the Siritsa River: The Livonian Order, supporting the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the Second Muscovite–Lithuanian War, and commanded by Wolter von Plettenberg, defeats an army of the Grand Duchy of Moscow and Pskov Republic.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360582028#July–September", "title": "1501", "revid": 1360582028, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1501, "year_label": "1501 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "November 24", "text": "November 24 – A large army of the Grand Duchy of Moscow overruns Livonia during the Second Muscovite–Lithuanian War.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360582028#October–December", "title": "1501", "revid": 1360582028, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1502, "year_label": "1502 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "April 11", "text": "April 11 – Dmitry Ivanovich Vnuk, who had been the teenage co-ruler of the Grand Duchy of Moscow since 1498 with his grandfather Ivan III, is arrested along with his mother, Elena of Moldavia on suspicion of conspiracy. Ivan designates his son (and Dmitry's uncle) Vasili Ivanovich as the new heir to the throne of Moscow.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367622674#April–June", "title": "1502", "revid": 1367622674, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1505, "year_label": "1505 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "November 6", "text": "November 6 (October 27 O.S.) – Vasili III succeeds Ivan III, as Grand Prince of Muscovy, comprising much of modern-day Russia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360582113#October–December", "title": "1505", "revid": 1360582113, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1514, "year_label": "1514 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "September 8", "text": "September 8 – Forces of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Kingdom of Poland, backed by Belarusians, with 30,000 troops, defeat the larger Russian army of the Grand Duchy of Moscow (80,000 soldiers) in the Battle of Orsha.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369345340#July–September", "title": "1514", "revid": 1369345340, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1517, "year_label": "1517 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Grand Prince Vasili III of Muscovy conquers Ryazan.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366649067#Date_unknown", "title": "1517", "revid": 1366649067, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1521, "year_label": "1521 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Grand Duchy of Ryazan is annexed by the Grand Duchy of Moscow.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369246997#Date_unknown", "title": "1521", "revid": 1369246997, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1533, "year_label": "1533 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Pechenga Monastery is founded, in the far north of the Grand Duchy of Moscow.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1359627731#Date_unknown", "title": "1533", "revid": 1359627731, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1561, "year_label": "1561 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "August 20", "text": "August 20 – English merchant Anthony Jenkinson arrives in Moscow on his second expedition to the Grand Duchy of Moscow.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1358043209#July–September", "title": "1561", "revid": 1358043209, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1562, "year_label": "1562 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "March 15", "text": "March 15 – English merchant Anthony Jenkinson has an audience with Ivan the Terrible in Moscow, before departing the city on April 27 and continuing his second expedition through the Grand Duchy of Moscow to Qazvin, capital of the Safavid dynasty in Persia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362000458#January–March", "title": "1562", "revid": 1362000458, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1564, "year_label": "1564 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "September 28", "text": "September 28 – English merchant Anthony Jenkinson returns to London from his second expedition to the Grand Duchy of Moscow, having gained a considerable extension of trading rights for the English Muscovy Company.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363117508#July–September", "title": "1564", "revid": 1363117508, "section": "Events › July–September"}}]}