Union of the Crowns
King James VI of Scotland takes the English throne
On 24 March 1603 the childless Elizabeth I died, and the English crown passed to her kinsman, King James VI Stuart of Scotland. The two countries now shared a monarch but remained separate kingdoms with their own parliaments and laws until the Acts of Union of 1707.
Wikipedia (English) · 17th century
Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1582 Yermak's conquest of Sibir — 21 years earlier
- 1598–1613 Time of Troubles — 5 years earlier
- 1610 Battle of Klushino — 7 years later
- 1612 Minin and Pozharsky liberate Moscow — 9 years later
- 1613 Election of Michael Romanov as Tsar — 10 years later
Africa
- 1591 Battle of Tondibi and fall of Songhai — 12 years earlier
- 1624–1663 Nzinga becomes Queen of Ndongo — 21 years later
Asia
- 1592–1598 Imjin War — 11 years earlier
- 1600 Battle of Sekigahara — 3 years earlier
- 1616 Nurhaci founds the Later Jin — 13 years later
Americas
- 1600 Eruption of Huaynaputina — 3 years earlier
- c. 1605–1694 Quilombo of Palmares — 2 years later
- 1607 Founding of Jamestown — 4 years later
- 1609 Jesuit reductions among the Guaraní — 6 years later
Alive at the time
- Elizabeth I (aged 70)
- Akbar the Great (aged 61)
- Tokugawa Ieyasu (aged 60)
- Miguel de Cervantes (aged 56)
- William Shakespeare (aged 39)
- Galileo Galilei (aged 39)
- René Descartes (aged 7)
- Matteo Ricci (aged 51)
- Rudolf II (aged 51)
- Henry IV (aged 50)