The burial of Chief Roi Mata
A Vanuatu legend confirmed by excavation
According to tradition, around 1600 Chief Roi Mata made peace among the warring clans of central Vanuatu and on his death was buried on the islet of Artok with dozens of his followers. In 1967 the French archaeologist José Garanger excavated a mass burial of about 50 people there, matching the oral account. In 2008 Chief Roi Mata's Domain became Vanuatu's first UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- 1582 Gregorian calendar — 18 years earlier
- 1598 Edict of Nantes — 2 years earlier
- 1600 East India Company founded — same year
- 1610 Galileo's telescopic discoveries — 10 years later
- 1618–1648 Thirty Years' War — 18 years later
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1582 Yermak's conquest of Sibir — 18 years earlier
- 1598–1613 Time of Troubles — 2 years earlier
- 1612 Minin and Pozharsky liberate Moscow — 12 years later
- 1613 Election of Michael Romanov as Tsar — 13 years later
Africa
- 1591 Battle of Tondibi and fall of Songhai — 9 years earlier
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Asia
- 1592–1598 Imjin War — 8 years earlier
- 1600 Battle of Sekigahara — same year
Americas
- 1600 Eruption of Huaynaputina — same year
- c. 1605–1694 Quilombo of Palmares — 5 years later
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- 1609 Jesuit reductions among the Guaraní — 9 years later
Alive at the time
- Elizabeth I (aged 67)
- Akbar the Great (aged 58)
- Tokugawa Ieyasu (aged 57)
- Miguel de Cervantes (aged 53)
- William Shakespeare (aged 36)
- Galileo Galilei (aged 36)
- René Descartes (aged 4)
- Matteo Ricci (aged 48)
- Rudolf II (aged 48)
- Henry IV (aged 47)