Oman takes Fort Jesus
The end of Portuguese rule on the Swahili coast
In March 1696 the fleet of Oman's Yaruba imams laid siege to the Portuguese Fort Jesus at Mombasa. The siege lasted almost three years, the garrison died of hunger and disease, and in December 1698 the fortress fell: the East African coast north of Mozambique passed to Oman.
Wikipedia (English) · 17th century
Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- 1687 Newton's Principia — 11 years earlier
- 1688–1689 Glorious Revolution — 10 years earlier
- 1699 Treaty of Karlowitz — 1 year later
- 1701–1714 War of the Spanish Succession — 3 years later
- 1707 England and Scotland unite — 9 years later
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1696 Capture of Azov — 2 years earlier
- 1700–1721 Great Northern War — 2 years later
- 1703 Founding of Saint Petersburg — 5 years later
- 1709 Battle of Poltava — 11 years later
- 1721 Proclamation of the Russian Empire — 23 years later
Middle East
- 1722 Fall of Isfahan — 24 years later
Asia
- 1673–1681 Revolt of the Three Feudatories — 25 years earlier
- 1707 Death of Aurangzeb — 9 years later
Alive at the time
- Louis XIV (aged 60)
- Isaac Newton (aged 55)
- Kangxi Emperor (aged 44)
- Peter the Great (aged 26)
- Johann Sebastian Bach (aged 13)
- Voltaire (aged 4)
- Aurangzeb (aged 80)
- John Locke (aged 66)
- Leopold I (aged 58)
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (aged 52)