Nurhaci founds the Later Jin
A Jurchen chief proclaims himself khan — the start of the Qing
In 1616 the Jurchen chief Nurhaci, who had united the tribes of Manchuria and created the Eight Banners army, proclaimed himself khan of the Later Jin. Two years later he went to war with the Ming, and in 1636 his son Hong Taiji renamed the realm Qing — the dynasty that conquered all of China.
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- 1600 East India Company founded — 16 years earlier
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- 1618–1648 Thirty Years' War — 2 years later
Eastern Europe & Russia
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- Tokugawa Ieyasu (aged 73)
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- Francis Bacon (aged 55)
- James I (aged 50)
- Johannes Kepler (aged 45)
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