August 10 β the Truce of Plussa was signed between Russia and Sweden for a period of three years, ending the Livonian War.
May 26 β a preliminary armistice agreement was signed between Russia and Sweden during the first round of negotiations.
May β the first round of Russian-Swedish peace negotiations took place, ending without results.
Spring β Yermak's Cossacks struck against the Siberian Khan Kuchum and captured his relative Mametkul on the Vagai River.
Summer β Yermak subjugated Tatar towns and uluses along the Irtysh and Ob rivers, and took the Ostyak town of Nazym.
Autumn β Tsarist voivodes Prince Semyon Volkhovsky and Ivan Glukhov arrived to Yermak with 300 warriors as reinforcements.
November 3 β Tsar Ivan the Terrible received English ambassador Jerome Bowes to discuss a military alliance with England and the tsar's marriage to a relative of Queen Elizabeth.
During the year β Novgorodians sent a delegation to Moscow led by Archimandrite Cyprian of the Khutyn Monastery to negotiate the fate of Novgorod, which was under Swedish occupation.
During the year β Russian pioneer printer Ivan Fyodorov died in the suburbs of Lviv.
During the year β Venerable Tryphon of Pechenga, enlightener of the Sami and founder of the Pechenga Monastery, died.
March 28 β Danish prince Magnus, King of Livonia and vassal of Ivan the Terrible, died.
1 Kopeck 1583.
Pskov Mint.
