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Johann Sebastian Bach

1685 CE – 1750 CE · 65 years

The life of the greatest composer in Western history — organist, cantor, and genius of counterpoint who wrote over a thousand works, fathered twenty children, and died in near-obscurity before the world understood what it had lost.

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1225 CE – 1687 CE

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1632 CE – 1704 CE

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1687 CE – 1757 CE

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Lake Issyk-Kul

3000 BCE – still standing

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Tsardom of Muscovy

1530 CE – 1721 CE

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Louis XIV

1638 CE – 1715 CE

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1687 CE Dzungar–Qing Wars 1709 CE Kokand Khanate Wars 1688 CE Nine Years' War (War of the Grand Alliance) 1689 CE Jacobite Risings 1690 CE Calcutta (Kolkata) 1690 CE Battle of the Boyne

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House of Taga Landmark · East Asia 900 CE – 1700 CE Hindu kingdoms Polity · South Asia 500 BCE – 1715 CE Mughal Conquests of India Conflict · South Asia 1526 CE – 1707 CE Portuguese Spice Route Trade route · Europe 1498 CE – 1700 CE Thulamela Landmark · Africa 1250 CE – 1700 CE Hadramaut Polity · Middle East 323 BCE – 1700 CE

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  • John Locke 1685 CE–1704 CE · 20 shared years
  • Louis XIV 1685 CE–1715 CE · 31 shared years
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