[Loch-Ruadh] Today in History January 22

[PBW]

> was that ivin the terrible?
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> wolfie !
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>> 1440 Ivan III the Great, Russian czar (1462-1505)/conquered Lithuania

Nope.

Ivan III Vasilevich, better known as Ivan the Great ruled from 1462-1505. 
http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/history/russia/ivanthegreat.html

Ivan the Great became the first national sovereign, but not the first tsar. 
This distinction belongs to Ivan IV, his grandson

Ivan IV Vasiljevich the Terrible (1530-1584) was a Grand Prince "all over 
the Rus" (since 1533), the first Russian Tsar (since 1547) 
http://www.cnit.uniyar.ac.ru/yaros/wwe00054.htm

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Magdalia/Pook