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1661 – 1682 · 21 years · Moscow · Eastern Europe & Russia
Reign: 1676 – 1682 (Rus and Russia)
Eldest son of Alexis and elder half-brother of Peter the Great. In 1682 he abolished mestnichestvo and burned the precedence books; his reign saw the Russo-Turkish war ended by the Treaty of Bakhchisarai.
Wikipedia (Russian) · Wikipedia (English) · 17th century
Portrait: Иван Салтанов, Ерофей Елин, Лука Смолянинов · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Contemporaries around the world
Europe
- Louis XIV — King of France, the Sun King, 23 years older
- Isaac Newton — English physicist and mathematician, 18 years older
- Charles II — the 'Merry Monarch' of the Restoration, 31 years older
- Leopold I — emperor under whom Vienna was saved from the Turks and Hungary retaken, 21 years older
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz — German philosopher and mathematician, 15 years older
- William III of Orange — Dutch stadtholder who took power in the Glorious Revolution, 11 years older
Eastern Europe & Russia
- Peter the Great — first Emperor of Russia, 11 years younger
- Alexis the Most Quiet — tsar of the 1649 Law Code and the church schism, 32 years older
Middle East
- Evliya Çelebi — Ottoman traveller, 50 years older
- Mehmed IV the Hunter — sultan of the Köprülü era and the siege of Vienna, 19 years older
- Suleiman II — sultan who retook Belgrade after 39 years in the 'cage', 19 years older
- Ahmed II — sultan who lost the Battle of Slankamen, 18 years older
- Mustafa II — sultan who signed the Treaty of Karlowitz, 3 years younger
Africa
- Moulay Ismail — Sultan of Morocco, 16 years older
- Osei Tutu I — founder of the Ashanti Empire, 1 year older
Asia
- Kangxi Emperor — Qing emperor of China, 7 years older
- Aurangzeb — Mughal emperor, 43 years older
- Matsuo Bashō — Japanese poet, 17 years older
- Tokugawa Tsunayoshi — the 'Dog Shogun' who outlawed cruelty to animals, 15 years older
- Shivaji — founder of the Maratha state, 31 years older
- Tokugawa Ienobu — shogun who repealed Tsunayoshi's dog laws, 1 year younger
Americas
- Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz — Mexican poet and nun, 13 years older
The world in their lifetime
- 1662 Last sighting of the dodo — aged 1, Africa
- 1676 Leeuwenhoek sees microbes — aged 15, Europe
- 1682 Accession of Peter the Great — aged 21, Eastern Europe & Russia