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| 1603 |
| | | The warlord Tokugawa Ieyasu is awarded the title of shogun, beginning nearly three centuries of the Tokugawa shogunate | |
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| 1603 |
| | | James VI of Scotland inherits peacefully the crown of his English cousin Elizabeth, and becomes James I of England | |
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| 1603 |
| | | The accession of James I and VI to the throne of England brings the union of the crowns of England and Scotland | |
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| 1605 |
| | | On the death of Akbar, his son Jahangir succeeds to the Mughal throne | |
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| 1610 |
| | | Henry IV is assassinated in a Paris street by a Roman Catholic, François Ravaillac | |
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| 1610 |
| | | After the assassination of Henry IV, his wife Marie de Médicis becomes regent for the 9-year-old Louis XIII | |
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| 1613 |
| | | Michael Romanov is elected tsar, beginning a new dynasty on the Russian throne | |
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| 1619 |
| | | The Protestant Frederick V (elector palatine of the Rhine) is elected king by the rebellious Bohemian nobles | |
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| 1620 |
| | | The battle of the White Mountain, to the west of Prague, ends the brief reign of Frederick V in Bohemia | |
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| c. 1625 |
| | | Three brothers among the Dahomey people establish a long-lasting kingdom in the Bight of Benin | |
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