Ivan at last asks Pope Gregory XIII …
Years: 1582 - 1582
January
Ivan at last asks Pope Gregory XIII to intervene in the Livonian War, and through the mediation of his nuncio, Antonio Possevino, an armistice with Poland-Lithuania is concluded on January 15, 1582, ending a quarter-century of warfare over Russian access to the Baltic, which it has been unable to gain.
Under its terms Russia loses all its gains in Livonia.
Locations
People
Groups
- Papal States (Republic of St. Peter)
- Sweden, (second) Kingdom of
- Russia, Tsardom of
- Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Commonwealth of the Two Nations)
