Quilombo of Palmares
For nearly a century runaway slaves fought off colonial armies
Around 1605, slaves fleeing sugar plantations founded the free settlement of Palmares in the forested hills of northeastern Brazil. By various estimates it eventually held more than ten thousand people. The quilombo repelled dozens of Portuguese and Dutch expeditions and fell only in 1694. Its last leader, Zumbi, was killed on 20 November 1695, now celebrated in Brazil as Black Consciousness Day.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- 1582 Gregorian calendar — 23 years earlier
- 1598 Edict of Nantes — 7 years earlier
- 1600 East India Company founded — 5 years earlier
- 1610 Galileo's telescopic discoveries — 5 years later
- 1618–1648 Thirty Years' War — 13 years later
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1582 Yermak's conquest of Sibir — 23 years earlier
- 1598–1613 Time of Troubles — 7 years earlier
- 1612 Minin and Pozharsky liberate Moscow — 7 years later
- 1613 Election of Michael Romanov as Tsar — 8 years later
Africa
- 1591 Battle of Tondibi and fall of Songhai — 14 years earlier
- 1624–1663 Nzinga becomes Queen of Ndongo — 19 years later
Asia
- 1592–1598 Imjin War — 13 years earlier
- 1600 Battle of Sekigahara — 5 years earlier
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- Akbar the Great (aged 63)
- Tokugawa Ieyasu (aged 62)
- Miguel de Cervantes (aged 58)
- William Shakespeare (aged 41)
- Galileo Galilei (aged 41)
- René Descartes (aged 9)
- Matteo Ricci (aged 53)
- Rudolf II (aged 53)
- Henry IV (aged 52)
- James I (aged 39)