Revenge of the 47 Ronin
Samurai avenge their lord and become Japan's legend
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In January 1703 forty-seven samurai, left masterless after their lord was ordered to commit seppuku, stormed the mansion of the man they blamed, Kira Yoshinaka, and killed him. Sentenced by the shogunate, they too committed seppuku; their story became Japan's archetypal tale of loyalty on stage and screen.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- 1683 Battle of Vienna — 20 years earlier
- 1687 Newton's Principia — 16 years earlier
- 1688–1689 Glorious Revolution — 15 years earlier
- 1701–1714 War of the Spanish Succession — 2 years earlier
- 1707 England and Scotland unite — 4 years later
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1682 Accession of Peter the Great — 21 years earlier
- 1700–1721 Great Northern War — 3 years earlier
- 1703 Founding of Saint Petersburg — same year
- 1709 Battle of Poltava — 6 years later
- 1721 Proclamation of the Russian Empire — 18 years later
Middle East
- 1722 Fall of Isfahan — 19 years later
Alive at the time
- Louis XIV (aged 65)
- Isaac Newton (aged 60)
- Kangxi Emperor (aged 49)
- Peter the Great (aged 31)
- Johann Sebastian Bach (aged 18)
- Voltaire (aged 9)
- Aurangzeb (aged 85)
- John Locke (aged 71)
- Leopold I (aged 63)
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (aged 57)