Japan's seclusion: Dejima
A tiny island becomes Japan's only window to the West
Having expelled the Portuguese and banned Christianity, the shogunate confined the Dutch trading post to the artificial island of Dejima. For over two centuries it was nearly Japan's only window on the Western world.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- 1618–1648 Thirty Years' War — 23 years earlier
- 1648 Peace of Westphalia — 7 years later
- 1649 Execution of Charles I of England — 8 years later
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1654 Pereiaslav Agreement — 13 years later
Africa
- 1624–1663 Nzinga becomes Queen of Ndongo — 17 years earlier
- 1662 Last sighting of the dodo — 21 years later
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- Galileo Galilei (aged 77)
- René Descartes (aged 45)
- Rembrandt (aged 35)
- Louis XIV (aged 3)
- Nur Jahan (aged 64)
- Njinga of Ndongo and Matamba (aged 58)
- Shah Jahan (aged 49)
- Michael I (aged 45)
- Oliver Cromwell (aged 42)
- Charles I (aged 41)