Abbas I rebuilds Isfahan
Shah Abbas turns Isfahan into 'half the world'
Shah Abbas I moved the Safavid capital to Isfahan and surrounded the vast Naqsh-e Jahan Square with palaces, mosques and a bazaar. The city became one of the world's most splendid — 'Isfahan is half the world', Persians said.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- 1582 Gregorian calendar — 16 years earlier
- 1588 Defeat of the Spanish Armada — 10 years earlier
- 1598 Edict of Nantes — same year
- 1600 East India Company founded — 2 years later
- 1618–1648 Thirty Years' War — 20 years later
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1582 Yermak's conquest of Sibir — 16 years earlier
- 1598–1613 Time of Troubles — same year
- 1612 Minin and Pozharsky liberate Moscow — 14 years later
- 1613 Election of Michael Romanov as Tsar — 15 years later
Africa
- 1591 Battle of Tondibi and fall of Songhai — 7 years earlier
Asia
- 1592–1598 Imjin War — 6 years earlier
- 1600 Battle of Sekigahara — 2 years later
Americas
- 1600 Eruption of Huaynaputina — 2 years later
- c. 1605–1694 Quilombo of Palmares — 7 years later
- 1607 Founding of Jamestown — 9 years later
- 1609 Jesuit reductions among the Guaraní — 11 years later
Alive at the time
- Elizabeth I (aged 65)
- Akbar the Great (aged 56)
- Tokugawa Ieyasu (aged 55)
- Miguel de Cervantes (aged 51)
- William Shakespeare (aged 34)
- Galileo Galilei (aged 34)
- René Descartes (aged 2)
- Philip II of Spain (aged 71)
- Toyotomi Hideyoshi (aged 61)
- Yi Sun-sin (aged 53)