Charles I
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1600 – 1649 · 49 years · London · Europe
Reign: 1625 – 1649 (England and Britain)
His attempt to rule without Parliament led to the Civil War of 1642–1651. Defeated by Cromwell's New Model Army, he was tried for treason and beheaded in London on 30 January 1649.
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Contemporaries around the world
Europe
- René Descartes — French philosopher and mathematician, 4 years older
- Rembrandt — Dutch painter, 6 years younger
- Galileo Galilei — Italian physicist and astronomer, 36 years older
- Miguel de Cervantes — Spanish novelist, 53 years older
- William Shakespeare — English playwright and poet, 36 years older
- Louis XIV — King of France, the Sun King, 38 years younger
Eastern Europe & Russia
- Michael I — first tsar of the Romanov dynasty, 4 years older
- Alexis the Most Quiet — tsar of the 1649 Law Code and the church schism, 29 years younger
- Bohdan Khmelnytsky — Hetman of the Zaporozhian Host, 5 years older
- Dmitry Pozharsky — prince and militia leader, 22 years older
- Vasily Shuisky — boyar tsar of the Time of Troubles who died in Polish captivity, 48 years older
Middle East
- Abbas the Great — Safavid Shah of Iran, 29 years older
- Murad IV — sultan who retook Baghdad and banned tobacco, 12 years younger
- Kösem Sultan — Ottoman queen mother, 11 years older
- Mustafa I — mentally unstable sultan enthroned twice, born the same year
- Evliya Çelebi — Ottoman traveller, 11 years younger
- Ibrahim the Mad — sultan nicknamed 'the Mad', 15 years younger
Africa
- Njinga of Ndongo and Matamba — Queen of Ndongo and Matamba, 17 years older
- Fasilides — Emperor of Ethiopia, 3 years younger
- Ahmed Baba — Timbuktu scholar, 44 years older
Asia
- Tokugawa Ieyasu — first Tokugawa shogun, 57 years older
- Shah Jahan — Mughal emperor, 8 years older
- Nur Jahan — Mughal empress, 23 years older
- Tokugawa Iemitsu — shogun who closed Japan to the Europeans, 4 years younger
- Tokugawa Hidetada — second Tokugawa shogun, who locked in the house's grip on the daimyo, 21 years older
- Mumtaz Mahal — consort of Emperor Shah Jahan, 7 years older
Americas
- Samuel de Champlain — French explorer, 33 years older
- Pocahontas — Powhatan chief's daughter, 4 years older
- Inca Garcilaso de la Vega — chronicler, son of a conquistador and an Inca princess, 61 years older
Oceania
- Abel Tasman — Dutch navigator, 3 years younger
The world in their lifetime
- 1600 Battle of Sekigahara — aged 0, Asia
- 1600 Eruption of Huaynaputina — aged 0, Americas
- 1600 East India Company founded — aged 0, Europe
- c. 1605–1694 Quilombo of Palmares — aged 5, Americas
- 1607 Founding of Jamestown — aged 7, Americas
- 1609 Jesuit reductions among the Guaraní — aged 9, Americas
- 1610 Galileo's telescopic discoveries — aged 10, Europe
- 1612 Minin and Pozharsky liberate Moscow — aged 12, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1613 Election of Michael Romanov as Tsar — aged 13, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1618–1648 Thirty Years' War — aged 18, Europe
- 1624–1663 Nzinga becomes Queen of Ndongo — aged 24, Africa
- 1632–1653 Building of the Taj Mahal — aged 32, Asia
- 1644 Fall of the Ming, rise of the Qing — aged 44, Asia
- 1648 Peace of Westphalia — aged 48, Europe
- 1649 Execution of Charles I of England — aged 49, Europe