Semyon Dezhnev's voyage
Cossacks sail between Asia and America 80 years before Bering
In 1648 an expedition led by the Cossack Semyon Dezhnev and Fedot Popov rounded the north-eastern tip of Asia, sailing through the strait between Asia and America eighty years before Vitus Bering.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- 1648 Peace of Westphalia — same year
- 1649 Execution of Charles I of England — 1 year later
Africa
- 1624–1663 Nzinga becomes Queen of Ndongo — 24 years earlier
- 1662 Last sighting of the dodo — 14 years later
Asia
- 1632–1653 Building of the Taj Mahal — 16 years earlier
- 1644 Fall of the Ming, rise of the Qing — 4 years earlier
Alive at the time
- René Descartes (aged 52)
- Rembrandt (aged 42)
- Louis XIV (aged 10)
- Isaac Newton (aged 5)
- Njinga of Ndongo and Matamba (aged 65)
- Shah Jahan (aged 56)
- Oliver Cromwell (aged 49)
- Charles I (aged 48)
- Tokugawa Iemitsu (aged 44)
- Aurangzeb (aged 30)