Suleiman II
1642 – 1691 · 49 years · Edirne · Middle East
Reign: 1687 – 1691 (Ottoman Empire)
He spent 39 years confined in the palace before taking the throne amid the war with the Holy League. His grand vizier Fazıl Mustafa Pasha Köprülü recaptured Belgrade in 1690.
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Contemporaries around the world
Europe
- Louis XIV — King of France, the Sun King, 4 years older
- Isaac Newton — English physicist and mathematician, 1 year younger
- Rembrandt — Dutch painter, 36 years older
- Leopold I — emperor under whom Vienna was saved from the Turks and Hungary retaken, 2 years older
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz — German philosopher and mathematician, 4 years younger
- Charles II — the 'Merry Monarch' of the Restoration, 12 years older
Eastern Europe & Russia
- Peter the Great — first Emperor of Russia, 30 years younger
- Alexis the Most Quiet — tsar of the 1649 Law Code and the church schism, 13 years older
- Vitus Bering — Danish explorer in Russian service, 39 years younger
- Feodor III — tsar who abolished the precedence system (mestnichestvo), 19 years younger
- Bohdan Khmelnytsky — Hetman of the Zaporozhian Host, 47 years older
Middle East
- Ahmed III — sultan of the 'Tulip Era', 31 years younger
- Mehmed IV the Hunter — sultan of the Köprülü era and the siege of Vienna, born the same year
- Ahmed II — sultan who lost the Battle of Slankamen, 1 year younger
- Evliya Çelebi — Ottoman traveller, 31 years older
- Mustafa II — sultan who signed the Treaty of Karlowitz, 22 years younger
Africa
- Njinga of Ndongo and Matamba — Queen of Ndongo and Matamba, 59 years older
- Moulay Ismail — Sultan of Morocco, 3 years younger
- Osei Tutu I — founder of the Ashanti Empire, 18 years younger
- Fasilides — Emperor of Ethiopia, 39 years older
Asia
- Kangxi Emperor — Qing emperor of China, 12 years younger
- Aurangzeb — Mughal emperor, 24 years older
- Matsuo Bashō — Japanese poet, 2 years younger
- Tokugawa Tsunayoshi — the 'Dog Shogun' who outlawed cruelty to animals, 4 years younger
- Shivaji — founder of the Maratha state, 12 years older
- Shah Jahan — Mughal emperor, 50 years older
Americas
- Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz — Mexican poet and nun, 6 years younger
Oceania
- Abel Tasman — Dutch navigator, 39 years older
The world in their lifetime
- 1644 Fall of the Ming, rise of the Qing — aged 2, Asia
- 1648 Peace of Westphalia — aged 6, Europe
- 1649 Execution of Charles I of England — aged 7, Europe
- 1654 Pereiaslav Agreement — aged 12, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1662 Last sighting of the dodo — aged 20, Africa
- 1676 Leeuwenhoek sees microbes — aged 34, Europe
- 1682 Accession of Peter the Great — aged 40, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1683 Battle of Vienna — aged 41, Europe
- 1687 Newton's Principia — aged 45, Europe
- 1688–1689 Glorious Revolution — aged 46, Europe