Election of Michael Romanov as Tsar
An assembly ends the Time of Troubles and founds a dynasty
On 3 March 1613 the Zemsky Sobor elected 16-year-old Michael Romanov as tsar. This ended the Time of Troubles and founded the Romanov dynasty, which ruled Russia until 1917.
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Five years after the Romanovs came to power (1613), the Thirty Years' War broke out in Europe.
Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- 1588 Defeat of the Spanish Armada — 25 years earlier
- 1598 Edict of Nantes — 15 years earlier
- 1600 East India Company founded — 13 years earlier
- 1610 Galileo's telescopic discoveries — 3 years earlier
- 1618–1648 Thirty Years' War — 5 years later
Africa
- 1591 Battle of Tondibi and fall of Songhai — 22 years earlier
- 1624–1663 Nzinga becomes Queen of Ndongo — 11 years later
Asia
- 1592–1598 Imjin War — 21 years earlier
- 1600 Battle of Sekigahara — 13 years earlier
- 1632–1653 Building of the Taj Mahal — 19 years later
Americas
- 1600 Eruption of Huaynaputina — 13 years earlier
- c. 1605–1694 Quilombo of Palmares — 8 years earlier
- 1607 Founding of Jamestown — 6 years earlier
- 1609 Jesuit reductions among the Guaraní — 4 years earlier
Alive at the time
- Tokugawa Ieyasu (aged 70)
- Miguel de Cervantes (aged 66)
- William Shakespeare (aged 49)
- Galileo Galilei (aged 49)
- René Descartes (aged 17)
- Rembrandt (aged 7)
- James I (aged 47)
- Johannes Kepler (aged 42)
- Abbas the Great (aged 42)
- Nur Jahan (aged 36)