Battle of Sekigahara
Tokugawa's victory brings Japan two and a half centuries of peace
Tokugawa Ieyasu defeated a coalition of western daimyo and became Japan's de facto ruler. Named shogun in 1603, he founded the Tokugawa shogunate, based in Edo, which kept Japan at peace for two and a half centuries.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- 1582 Gregorian calendar — 18 years earlier
- 1598 Edict of Nantes — 2 years earlier
- 1600 East India Company founded — same year
- 1610 Galileo's telescopic discoveries — 10 years later
- 1618–1648 Thirty Years' War — 18 years later
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1582 Yermak's conquest of Sibir — 18 years earlier
- 1598–1613 Time of Troubles — 2 years earlier
- 1612 Minin and Pozharsky liberate Moscow — 12 years later
- 1613 Election of Michael Romanov as Tsar — 13 years later
Africa
- 1591 Battle of Tondibi and fall of Songhai — 9 years earlier
- 1624–1663 Nzinga becomes Queen of Ndongo — 24 years later
Americas
- 1600 Eruption of Huaynaputina — same year
- c. 1605–1694 Quilombo of Palmares — 5 years later
- 1607 Founding of Jamestown — 7 years later
- 1609 Jesuit reductions among the Guaraní — 9 years later
Alive at the time
- Elizabeth I (aged 67)
- Akbar the Great (aged 58)
- Tokugawa Ieyasu (aged 57)
- Miguel de Cervantes (aged 53)
- William Shakespeare (aged 36)
- Galileo Galilei (aged 36)
- René Descartes (aged 4)
- Matteo Ricci (aged 48)
- Rudolf II (aged 48)
- Henry IV (aged 47)