Koxinga
1624 – 1662 · 38 years · Tainan · Asia
Ming loyalist who fought the Manchus and in 1662 expelled the Dutch from Taiwan, founding his own kingdom there.
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Contemporaries around the world
Europe
- Rembrandt — Dutch painter, 18 years older
- René Descartes — French philosopher and mathematician, 28 years older
- Louis XIV — King of France, the Sun King, 14 years younger
- Isaac Newton — English physicist and mathematician, 19 years younger
- Galileo Galilei — Italian physicist and astronomer, 60 years older
- Oliver Cromwell — Lord Protector of England, 25 years older
Eastern Europe & Russia
- Alexis the Most Quiet — tsar of the 1649 Law Code and the church schism, 5 years younger
- Michael I — first tsar of the Romanov dynasty, 28 years older
- Bohdan Khmelnytsky — Hetman of the Zaporozhian Host, 29 years older
- Dmitry Pozharsky — prince and militia leader, 46 years older
Middle East
- Murad IV — sultan who retook Baghdad and banned tobacco, 12 years older
- Evliya Çelebi — Ottoman traveller, 13 years older
- Kösem Sultan — Ottoman queen mother, 35 years older
- Ibrahim the Mad — sultan nicknamed 'the Mad', 9 years older
- Mehmed IV the Hunter — sultan of the Köprülü era and the siege of Vienna, 18 years younger
- Suleiman II — sultan who retook Belgrade after 39 years in the 'cage', 18 years younger
Africa
- Njinga of Ndongo and Matamba — Queen of Ndongo and Matamba, 41 years older
- Fasilides — Emperor of Ethiopia, 21 years older
- Moulay Ismail — Sultan of Morocco, 21 years younger
Asia
- Shah Jahan — Mughal emperor, 32 years older
- Aurangzeb — Mughal emperor, 6 years older
- Shivaji — founder of the Maratha state, 6 years younger
- Tokugawa Iemitsu — shogun who closed Japan to the Europeans, 20 years older
- Nur Jahan — Mughal empress, 47 years older
- Matsuo Bashō — Japanese poet, 20 years younger
Americas
- Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz — Mexican poet and nun, 24 years younger
- Samuel de Champlain — French explorer, 57 years older
Oceania
- Abel Tasman — Dutch navigator, 21 years older
The world in their lifetime
- 1624–1663 Nzinga becomes Queen of Ndongo — aged 0, Africa
- 1632–1653 Building of the Taj Mahal — aged 8, Asia
- 1644 Fall of the Ming, rise of the Qing — aged 20, Asia
- 1648 Peace of Westphalia — aged 24, Europe
- 1649 Execution of Charles I of England — aged 25, Europe
- 1654 Pereiaslav Agreement — aged 30, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1662 Last sighting of the dodo — aged 38, Africa