Tokugawa Iemitsu
1604 – 1651 · 47 years · Edo · Asia
Reign: 1623 – 1651 (Japan: shoguns & emperors)
Shogun 1623–1651. He made daimyo spend alternate years in Edo (sankin-kōtai), crushed the Christian Shimabara Rebellion (1637–1638), expelled the Portuguese and left only the Dutch, on Dejima, to trade with Europe.
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Contemporaries around the world
Europe
- René Descartes — French philosopher and mathematician, 8 years older
- Rembrandt — Dutch painter, 2 years younger
- Galileo Galilei — Italian physicist and astronomer, 40 years older
- Louis XIV — King of France, the Sun King, 34 years younger
- Miguel de Cervantes — Spanish novelist, 57 years older
- William Shakespeare — English playwright and poet, 40 years older
Eastern Europe & Russia
- Michael I — first tsar of the Romanov dynasty, 8 years older
- Alexis the Most Quiet — tsar of the 1649 Law Code and the church schism, 25 years younger
- Bohdan Khmelnytsky — Hetman of the Zaporozhian Host, 9 years older
- Dmitry Pozharsky — prince and militia leader, 26 years older
Middle East
- Murad IV — sultan who retook Baghdad and banned tobacco, 8 years younger
- Abbas the Great — Safavid Shah of Iran, 33 years older
- Kösem Sultan — Ottoman queen mother, 15 years older
- Evliya Çelebi — Ottoman traveller, 7 years younger
- Mustafa I — mentally unstable sultan enthroned twice, 4 years older
- Ibrahim the Mad — sultan nicknamed 'the Mad', 11 years younger
Africa
- Njinga of Ndongo and Matamba — Queen of Ndongo and Matamba, 21 years older
- Fasilides — Emperor of Ethiopia, 1 year older
- Ahmed Baba — Timbuktu scholar, 48 years older
Asia
- Tokugawa Ieyasu — first Tokugawa shogun, 61 years older
- Shah Jahan — Mughal emperor, 12 years older
- Nur Jahan — Mughal empress, 27 years older
- Aurangzeb — Mughal emperor, 14 years younger
- Tokugawa Hidetada — second Tokugawa shogun, who locked in the house's grip on the daimyo, 25 years older
- Mumtaz Mahal — consort of Emperor Shah Jahan, 11 years older
Americas
- Samuel de Champlain — French explorer, 37 years older
- Pocahontas — Powhatan chief's daughter, 8 years older
- Inca Garcilaso de la Vega — chronicler, son of a conquistador and an Inca princess, 65 years older
Oceania
- Abel Tasman — Dutch navigator, 1 year older
The world in their lifetime
- c. 1605–1694 Quilombo of Palmares — aged 1, Americas
- 1607 Founding of Jamestown — aged 3, Americas
- 1609 Jesuit reductions among the Guaraní — aged 5, Americas
- 1610 Galileo's telescopic discoveries — aged 6, Europe
- 1612 Minin and Pozharsky liberate Moscow — aged 8, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1613 Election of Michael Romanov as Tsar — aged 9, Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1618–1648 Thirty Years' War — aged 14, Europe
- 1624–1663 Nzinga becomes Queen of Ndongo — aged 20, Africa
- 1632–1653 Building of the Taj Mahal — aged 28, Asia
- 1644 Fall of the Ming, rise of the Qing — aged 40, Asia
- 1648 Peace of Westphalia — aged 44, Europe
- 1649 Execution of Charles I of England — aged 45, Europe