Fasilides
1603 – 1667 · 64 years · Gondar · Africa
Expelled the Jesuits, restored Orthodoxy in Ethiopia and founded the new capital of Gondar with its castle, Fasil Ghebbi.
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Contemporaries around the world
Europe
- Rembrandt — Dutch painter, 3 years younger
- René Descartes — French philosopher and mathematician, 7 years older
- Galileo Galilei — Italian physicist and astronomer, 39 years older
- Louis XIV — King of France, the Sun King, 35 years younger
- Isaac Newton — English physicist and mathematician, 40 years younger
- Miguel de Cervantes — Spanish novelist, 56 years older
Eastern Europe & Russia
- Michael I — first tsar of the Romanov dynasty, 7 years older
- Alexis the Most Quiet — tsar of the 1649 Law Code and the church schism, 26 years younger
- Bohdan Khmelnytsky — Hetman of the Zaporozhian Host, 8 years older
- Dmitry Pozharsky — prince and militia leader, 25 years older
Middle East
- Murad IV — sultan who retook Baghdad and banned tobacco, 9 years younger
- Abbas the Great — Safavid Shah of Iran, 32 years older
- Evliya Çelebi — Ottoman traveller, 8 years younger
- Kösem Sultan — Ottoman queen mother, 14 years older
- Mustafa I — mentally unstable sultan enthroned twice, 3 years older
- Ibrahim the Mad — sultan nicknamed 'the Mad', 12 years younger
Africa
- Njinga of Ndongo and Matamba — Queen of Ndongo and Matamba, 20 years older
- Ahmed Baba — Timbuktu scholar, 47 years older
- Moulay Ismail — Sultan of Morocco, 42 years younger
Asia
- Tokugawa Ieyasu — first Tokugawa shogun, 60 years older
- Kangxi Emperor — Qing emperor of China, 51 years younger
- Shah Jahan — Mughal emperor, 11 years older
- Aurangzeb — Mughal emperor, 15 years younger
- Tokugawa Iemitsu — shogun who closed Japan to the Europeans, 1 year younger
- Nur Jahan — Mughal empress, 26 years older
Americas
- Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz — Mexican poet and nun, 45 years younger
- Samuel de Champlain — French explorer, 36 years older
- Pocahontas — Powhatan chief's daughter, 7 years older
- Inca Garcilaso de la Vega — chronicler, son of a conquistador and an Inca princess, 64 years older
Oceania
- Abel Tasman — Dutch navigator, born the same year
The world in their lifetime
- c. 1605–1694 Quilombo of Palmares — aged 2, Americas
- 1607 Founding of Jamestown — aged 4, Americas
- 1609 Jesuit reductions among the Guaraní — aged 6, Americas
- 1610 Galileo's telescopic discoveries — aged 7, Europe
- 1612 Minin and Pozharsky liberate Moscow — aged 9, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1613 Election of Michael Romanov as Tsar — aged 10, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1618–1648 Thirty Years' War — aged 15, Europe
- 1624–1663 Nzinga becomes Queen of Ndongo — aged 21, Africa
- 1632–1653 Building of the Taj Mahal — aged 29, Asia
- 1644 Fall of the Ming, rise of the Qing — aged 41, Asia
- 1648 Peace of Westphalia — aged 45, Europe
- 1649 Execution of Charles I of England — aged 46, Europe
- 1654 Pereiaslav Agreement — aged 51, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1662 Last sighting of the dodo — aged 59, Africa