Kepler's supernova
The last galactic star blast seen with the naked eye
In October 1604 a supernova flared in Ophiuchus, and Johannes Kepler followed it from Prague for over a year. It remains the last supernova in our galaxy seen with the naked eye. In the same weeks, False Dmitry I crossed into Russia.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1582 Yermak's conquest of Sibir — 22 years earlier
- 1598–1613 Time of Troubles — 6 years earlier
- 1612 Minin and Pozharsky liberate Moscow — 8 years later
- 1613 Election of Michael Romanov as Tsar — 9 years later
Africa
- 1591 Battle of Tondibi and fall of Songhai — 13 years earlier
- 1624–1663 Nzinga becomes Queen of Ndongo — 20 years later
Asia
- 1592–1598 Imjin War — 12 years earlier
- 1600 Battle of Sekigahara — 4 years earlier
Americas
- 1600 Eruption of Huaynaputina — 4 years earlier
- c. 1605–1694 Quilombo of Palmares — 1 year later
- 1607 Founding of Jamestown — 3 years later
- 1609 Jesuit reductions among the Guaraní — 5 years later
Alive at the time
- Akbar the Great (aged 62)
- Tokugawa Ieyasu (aged 61)
- Miguel de Cervantes (aged 57)
- William Shakespeare (aged 40)
- Galileo Galilei (aged 40)
- René Descartes (aged 8)
- Matteo Ricci (aged 52)
- Rudolf II (aged 52)
- Henry IV (aged 51)
- James I (aged 38)