Marten Van Alstyne
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1591

1591 Battle of Tondibi: In Mali, forces sent by the Saadi Dynasty ruler of Morocco, Ahmad al-Mansur, and led by Judar Pasha, defeat the Songhai Empire, despite being outnumbered by at least five to one.
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1617


Age: 26y
1617 • Weighing ceremony of Jahangir. Described by the first English ambassador to the Mughal court Sir Thomas Roe.
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1618


Age: 27y
1618 Johannes Kepler discovers the third law of planetary motion (he soon rejects the idea after some initial calculations were made but on May 15 confirms the discovery).

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