Death of Aurangzeb
The last great Mughal dies and the empire starts to crumble
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Aurangzeb ruled the Mughal Empire for half a century and brought it to its greatest extent, but endless wars with the Marathas in the Deccan drained the treasury. After his death came wars of succession, provincial governors became independent rulers and the Marathas took over central India.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- 1683 Battle of Vienna — 24 years earlier
- 1687 Newton's Principia — 20 years earlier
- 1688–1689 Glorious Revolution — 19 years earlier
- 1701–1714 War of the Spanish Succession — 6 years earlier
- 1707 England and Scotland unite — same year
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1682 Accession of Peter the Great — 25 years earlier
- 1700–1721 Great Northern War — 7 years earlier
- 1703 Founding of Saint Petersburg — 4 years earlier
- 1709 Battle of Poltava — 2 years later
- 1721 Proclamation of the Russian Empire — 14 years later
Middle East
- 1722 Fall of Isfahan — 15 years later
Alive at the time
- Louis XIV (aged 69)
- Isaac Newton (aged 64)
- Kangxi Emperor (aged 53)
- Peter the Great (aged 35)
- Johann Sebastian Bach (aged 22)
- Voltaire (aged 13)
- Benjamin Franklin (aged 1)
- Aurangzeb (aged 89)
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (aged 61)
- Tokugawa Tsunayoshi (aged 61)