Tokugawa Hidetada
1579 – 1632 · 53 years · Edo · Asia
Reign: 1616 – 1623 (Japan: shoguns & emperors)
Shogun 1605–1623 and Ieyasu's son. With his father he took Osaka (1615), issued the Laws for the Military Houses that bound the daimyo, and harshly persecuted Christians, culminating in the Great Genna Martyrdom of 1622.
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Contemporaries around the world
Europe
- Galileo Galilei — Italian physicist and astronomer, 15 years older
- Miguel de Cervantes — Spanish novelist, 32 years older
- William Shakespeare — English playwright and poet, 15 years older
- René Descartes — French philosopher and mathematician, 17 years younger
- Rembrandt — Dutch painter, 27 years younger
- Elizabeth I — Queen of England, 46 years older
Eastern Europe & Russia
- Michael I — first tsar of the Romanov dynasty, 17 years younger
- False Dmitry I — pretender who claimed to be Tsarevich Dmitry, 2 years younger
- Dmitry Pozharsky — prince and militia leader, 1 year older
- Bohdan Khmelnytsky — Hetman of the Zaporozhian Host, 16 years younger
- Vasily Shuisky — boyar tsar of the Time of Troubles who died in Polish captivity, 27 years older
- Boris Godunov — Tsar of Russia, 27 years older
Middle East
- Abbas the Great — Safavid Shah of Iran, 8 years older
- Murad IV — sultan who retook Baghdad and banned tobacco, 33 years younger
- Kösem Sultan — Ottoman queen mother, 10 years younger
- Mustafa I — mentally unstable sultan enthroned twice, 21 years younger
- Ahmed I — sultan who built the Blue Mosque, 11 years younger
- Mehmed III — sultan who executed 19 brothers and won at Keresztes, 13 years older
Africa
- Njinga of Ndongo and Matamba — Queen of Ndongo and Matamba, 4 years younger
- Ahmed Baba — Timbuktu scholar, 23 years older
- Fasilides — Emperor of Ethiopia, 24 years younger
- Ahmad al-Mansur — Sultan of Morocco, 30 years older
Asia
- Tokugawa Ieyasu — first Tokugawa shogun, 36 years older
- Akbar the Great — Mughal emperor, 37 years older
- Nur Jahan — Mughal empress, 2 years older
- Shah Jahan — Mughal emperor, 13 years younger
- Mumtaz Mahal — consort of Emperor Shah Jahan, 14 years younger
- Matteo Ricci — Jesuit missionary in China, 27 years older
Americas
- Samuel de Champlain — French explorer, 12 years older
- Inca Garcilaso de la Vega — chronicler, son of a conquistador and an Inca princess, 40 years older
- Pocahontas — Powhatan chief's daughter, 17 years younger
Oceania
- Abel Tasman — Dutch navigator, 24 years younger
The world in their lifetime
- 1582 Gregorian calendar — aged 3, Europe
- 1582 Yermak's conquest of Sibir — aged 3, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1588 Defeat of the Spanish Armada — aged 9, Europe
- 1591 Battle of Tondibi and fall of Songhai — aged 12, Africa
- 1592–1598 Imjin War — aged 13, Asia
- 1598–1613 Time of Troubles — aged 19, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1598 Edict of Nantes — aged 19, Europe
- 1600 Battle of Sekigahara — aged 21, Asia
- 1600 Eruption of Huaynaputina — aged 21, Americas
- 1600 East India Company founded — aged 21, Europe
- c. 1605–1694 Quilombo of Palmares — aged 26, Americas
- 1607 Founding of Jamestown — aged 28, Americas
- 1609 Jesuit reductions among the Guaraní — aged 30, Americas
- 1610 Galileo's telescopic discoveries — aged 31, Europe
- 1612 Minin and Pozharsky liberate Moscow — aged 33, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1613 Election of Michael Romanov as Tsar — aged 34, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1618–1648 Thirty Years' War — aged 39, Europe
- 1624–1663 Nzinga becomes Queen of Ndongo — aged 45, Africa
- 1632–1653 Building of the Taj Mahal — aged 53, Asia