Revolt of the Three Feudatories
The generals who let the Manchus into China rebel against them
In 1673 the young Kangxi Emperor decided to abolish the vast fiefs in the south, and their rulers — Wu Sangui, Shang Zhixin and Geng Jingzhong — rebelled. The rebels took almost all of southern China and Wu Sangui even proclaimed himself emperor, but after his death the revolt faded, and in 1681 Qing troops took Kunming.
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Europe
- 1648 Peace of Westphalia — 25 years earlier
- 1676 Leeuwenhoek sees microbes — 3 years later
- 1683 Battle of Vienna — 10 years later
- 1687 Newton's Principia — 14 years later
- 1688–1689 Glorious Revolution — 15 years later
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1649 Law Code of 1649 — 24 years earlier
- 1654 Pereiaslav Agreement — 19 years earlier
- 1667 Truce of Andrusovo — 6 years earlier
- 1682 Accession of Peter the Great — 9 years later
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Africa
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- Louis XIV (aged 35)
- Isaac Newton (aged 30)
- Kangxi Emperor (aged 19)
- Peter the Great (aged 1)
- Thomas Hobbes (aged 85)
- Aurangzeb (aged 55)
- Alexis the Most Quiet (aged 44)
- Shivaji (aged 43)
- Charles II (aged 43)
- Baruch Spinoza (aged 41)