Ivan III of Russia - Timeline

Timeline

• 1462 – Becomes Great Prince after his father's death
• 1463 – Annexes Yaroslavl
• 1465 – Sends an expedition to the Arctic
• 1471 – Invades Novgorod, which becomes a puppet state
• 1472 – Eldest brother, Yuri, died childless; Ivan seizes his land
• 1474 – Buys Rostov
• 1476 – Refuses to pay tribute to Khan Ahmed of the Golden Horde
• 1478 – Annexes the Republic of Novgorod
• 1480 – Golden Horde advances to the Ugra River but retreats (the last attempt to force Muscovy to pay tribute)
• 1481 – Younger brother Andrei dies, leaving Ivan his land
• 1483 – 1st Georgian emissary
• 1484 – 1st purge of Novgorod
• 1485 – Annexes Tver. The official date of revival of statehood; an acceptation of new title – 'Grand Prince of All Russia'
• 1486 – The only autonomous Muscovite prince, Mikhail Andreevich of Vereia dies; Ivan seizes his land.
• 1487 – Kazan Khanate becomes a Muscovite puppet state

2nd purge of Novgorod

• 1489 – Annexes Republic of Vyatka

3rd purge of Novgorod: 1,000 expelled.

• 1491 – Ivan's elder brother Andrei imprisoned for not helping the Crimean Khanate against the Golden Horde

2nd Georgian emissary

• 1492 – War with Lithuania started August
• 1493 – Andrei the Elder dies in prison; Ivan seizes his land
• 1494 – Last brother, Boris, dies and leaves his land to his sons, Ivan and Fedor

February – Lithuanian war ends

Muscovy annexes Vyazma and a sizable region in the upper reaches of the Oka River

• 1499 – Lithuania invaded. 4,000 troops cross the Pechora River, take 1,000 prisoners, pelts and found Pustozyorsk.
• 1503 – Ivan takes the land of his nephew Ivan on the latter's death

Chernigov, Starodub, Novgorod-Seversky, and sixteen other towns ceded by Lithuania to Muscovy, ending the war

• 1505 – Ivan dies, leaving Muscovy to his son Vasili