Peter the Great's Grand Embassy
A 2-metre tsar tours Europe incognito as a shipwright
Peter I travelled to Europe as 'Peter Mikhailov' and from September 1697 worked as a shipwright in Dutch yards, then studied shipbuilding in England. Staying unrecognised was hopeless: at about 2.03 m he towered over everyone around him.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- 1676 Leeuwenhoek sees microbes — 21 years earlier
- 1683 Battle of Vienna — 14 years earlier
- 1687 Newton's Principia — 10 years earlier
- 1688–1689 Glorious Revolution — 9 years earlier
Middle East
- 1722 Fall of Isfahan — 25 years later
Alive at the time
- Louis XIV (aged 59)
- Isaac Newton (aged 54)
- Kangxi Emperor (aged 43)
- Peter the Great (aged 25)
- Johann Sebastian Bach (aged 12)
- Voltaire (aged 3)
- Aurangzeb (aged 79)
- Leopold I (aged 57)
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (aged 51)
- Tokugawa Tsunayoshi (aged 51)