Bohdan Khmelnytsky
c. 1595 – 1657 · 62 years · Chyhyryn · Eastern Europe & Russia
Led the 1648 Cossack uprising against the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, founded the Hetmanate and accepted the Tsar's protection at Pereiaslav in 1654.
Wikipedia (Russian) · Wikipedia (English) · 17th century
Portrait: Willem Hondius · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Contemporaries around the world
Europe
- René Descartes — French philosopher and mathematician, 1 year younger
- Rembrandt — Dutch painter, 11 years younger
- Galileo Galilei — Italian physicist and astronomer, 31 years older
- Miguel de Cervantes — Spanish novelist, 48 years older
- William Shakespeare — English playwright and poet, 31 years older
- Louis XIV — King of France, the Sun King, 43 years younger
Eastern Europe & Russia
- Michael I — first tsar of the Romanov dynasty, 1 year younger
- Alexis the Most Quiet — tsar of the 1649 Law Code and the church schism, 34 years younger
- False Dmitry I — pretender who claimed to be Tsarevich Dmitry, 14 years older
- Dmitry Pozharsky — prince and militia leader, 17 years older
- Vasily Shuisky — boyar tsar of the Time of Troubles who died in Polish captivity, 43 years older
- Boris Godunov — Tsar of Russia, 43 years older
Middle East
- Abbas the Great — Safavid Shah of Iran, 24 years older
- Murad IV — sultan who retook Baghdad and banned tobacco, 17 years younger
- Kösem Sultan — Ottoman queen mother, 6 years older
- Evliya Çelebi — Ottoman traveller, 16 years younger
- Mustafa I — mentally unstable sultan enthroned twice, 5 years younger
- Ibrahim the Mad — sultan nicknamed 'the Mad', 20 years younger
Africa
- Njinga of Ndongo and Matamba — Queen of Ndongo and Matamba, 12 years older
- Fasilides — Emperor of Ethiopia, 8 years younger
- Ahmed Baba — Timbuktu scholar, 39 years older
- Moulay Ismail — Sultan of Morocco, 50 years younger
Asia
- Tokugawa Ieyasu — first Tokugawa shogun, 52 years older
- Akbar the Great — Mughal emperor, 53 years older
- Shah Jahan — Mughal emperor, 3 years older
- Nur Jahan — Mughal empress, 18 years older
- Tokugawa Iemitsu — shogun who closed Japan to the Europeans, 9 years younger
- Aurangzeb — Mughal emperor, 23 years younger
Americas
- Samuel de Champlain — French explorer, 28 years older
- Inca Garcilaso de la Vega — chronicler, son of a conquistador and an Inca princess, 56 years older
- Pocahontas — Powhatan chief's daughter, 1 year younger
Oceania
- Abel Tasman — Dutch navigator, 8 years younger
The world in their lifetime
- 1598–1613 Time of Troubles — aged 3, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1598 Edict of Nantes — aged 3, Europe
- 1600 Battle of Sekigahara — aged 5, Asia
- 1600 Eruption of Huaynaputina — aged 5, Americas
- 1600 East India Company founded — aged 5, Europe
- c. 1605–1694 Quilombo of Palmares — aged 10, Americas
- 1607 Founding of Jamestown — aged 12, Americas
- 1609 Jesuit reductions among the Guaraní — aged 14, Americas
- 1610 Galileo's telescopic discoveries — aged 15, Europe
- 1612 Minin and Pozharsky liberate Moscow — aged 17, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1613 Election of Michael Romanov as Tsar — aged 18, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1618–1648 Thirty Years' War — aged 23, Europe
- 1624–1663 Nzinga becomes Queen of Ndongo — aged 29, Africa
- 1632–1653 Building of the Taj Mahal — aged 37, Asia
- 1644 Fall of the Ming, rise of the Qing — aged 49, Asia
- 1648 Peace of Westphalia — aged 53, Europe
- 1649 Execution of Charles I of England — aged 54, Europe
- 1654 Pereiaslav Agreement — aged 59, Eastern Europe & Russia