The world: 1630s

1630–1639

Events in this period 3

1. 1632 – 1653 · India · Culture

   Taj Mahal

   The Taj Mahal is an ivory-white marble mausoleum on the right bank of the river Yamuna in Agra, Uttar Pradesh, India. It was commissioned in 1631 by the fifth Mughal emperor, Shah Jahan, to house the tomb of his late wife, Mumtaz Mahal; it also houses the tomb of Shah Jahan himself. The tomb is the centrepiece of a 17-hectare (42-acre) complex, which includes a mosque and a guest house, and is set in formal gardens bounded on three sides by a crenellated wall.

2. 1636 – 1637 · Korea · War

   Qing invasion of Joseon

   The Qing invasion of Joseon occurred in the winter of 1636 when the newly established Manchu-led Qing Empire invaded the Joseon Kingdom of what is now Korea, establishing the former's status as the hegemon in the Imperial Chinese tributary system and formally severing Joseon's relationship with the Han-led Ming dynasty. The invasion was preceded by the Later Jin invasion of Joseon in 1627.

3. 1639 · Japan · Politics

   Sakoku

   Sakoku was the isolationist foreign policy of the Japanese Tokugawa shogunate under which, during the Edo period, relations and trade between Japan and other countries were severely limited, and almost all foreign nationals were banned from entering Japan, while common Japanese people were kept from leaving the country. The policy was enacted by the shogunate government (bakufu) under Tokugawa Iemitsu through a number of edicts and policies from 1633 to 1639.

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Around the same time

• Sengoku period1467 – 1615
• English Civil War1642 – 1651
• Battle of Shanhai Pass1644
• Peace of Westphalia1648
• Batavia, Dutch East Indies1619
• Abel Tasman1642
• Dutch Cape Colony1652

Other maps for this period

• War mapsThirty Years' War
• War mapsQing invasion of Joseon
• Epidemics map1629–1631 Italian plague