Imjin War
Korea and Ming China hold back a Japanese invasion
Toyotomi Hideyoshi's armies landed at Busan and invaded Korea, aiming to conquer China. Joseon, aided by Ming China and Admiral Yi Sun-sin's fleet, held out; the Japanese withdrew after Hideyoshi's death, leaving Korea devastated.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- 1582 Gregorian calendar — 10 years earlier
- 1588 Defeat of the Spanish Armada — 4 years earlier
- 1598 Edict of Nantes — 6 years later
- 1600 East India Company founded — 8 years later
- 1610 Galileo's telescopic discoveries — 18 years later
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1569 Union of Lublin — 23 years earlier
- 1582 Yermak's conquest of Sibir — 10 years earlier
- 1598–1613 Time of Troubles — 6 years later
- 1612 Minin and Pozharsky liberate Moscow — 20 years later
- 1613 Election of Michael Romanov as Tsar — 21 years later
Africa
- 1591 Battle of Tondibi and fall of Songhai — 1 year earlier
Americas
- 1600 Eruption of Huaynaputina — 8 years later
- c. 1605–1694 Quilombo of Palmares — 13 years later
- 1607 Founding of Jamestown — 15 years later
- 1609 Jesuit reductions among the Guaraní — 17 years later
Alive at the time
- Elizabeth I (aged 59)
- Akbar the Great (aged 50)
- Tokugawa Ieyasu (aged 49)
- Miguel de Cervantes (aged 45)
- William Shakespeare (aged 28)
- Galileo Galilei (aged 28)
- Philip II of Spain (aged 65)
- Toyotomi Hideyoshi (aged 55)
- Ashikaga Yoshiaki (aged 55)
- Yi Sun-sin (aged 47)