Abbas I retakes Tabriz
The Safavids win back what they lost in the previous war
In the autumn of 1603 Shah Abbas I, who had rebuilt his army with musketeers and artillery, took Tabriz, Ottoman since 1585, in a surprise campaign. Over the next years the Persians regained Yerevan, Shirvan and eastern Georgia, and in the peace of 1612 the Ottomans gave up the gains of the previous war.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- 1582 Gregorian calendar — 21 years earlier
- 1598 Edict of Nantes — 5 years earlier
- 1600 East India Company founded — 3 years earlier
- 1603 Union of the Crowns — same year
- 1618–1648 Thirty Years' War — 15 years later
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1582 Yermak's conquest of Sibir — 21 years earlier
- 1598–1613 Time of Troubles — 5 years earlier
- 1610 Battle of Klushino — 7 years later
- 1612 Minin and Pozharsky liberate Moscow — 9 years later
- 1613 Election of Michael Romanov as Tsar — 10 years later
Africa
- 1591 Battle of Tondibi and fall of Songhai — 12 years earlier
- 1624–1663 Nzinga becomes Queen of Ndongo — 21 years later
Asia
- 1592–1598 Imjin War — 11 years earlier
- 1600 Battle of Sekigahara — 3 years earlier
- 1616 Nurhaci founds the Later Jin — 13 years later
Americas
- 1600 Eruption of Huaynaputina — 3 years earlier
- c. 1605–1694 Quilombo of Palmares — 2 years later
- 1607 Founding of Jamestown — 4 years later
- 1609 Jesuit reductions among the Guaraní — 6 years later
Alive at the time
- Elizabeth I (aged 70)
- Akbar the Great (aged 61)
- Tokugawa Ieyasu (aged 60)
- Miguel de Cervantes (aged 56)
- William Shakespeare (aged 39)
- Galileo Galilei (aged 39)
- René Descartes (aged 7)
- Matteo Ricci (aged 51)
- Rudolf II (aged 51)
- Henry IV (aged 50)