Kangxi
1654 – 1722
Chinese (Qing or Manchu)

Emperor. During his long reign, he promoted traditional Confucian ideals, subsidized scholarship, and expanded the borders of the empire.

Contemporaries
1624–1691George Fox
1694–1778Voltaire
1632–1677Baruch Spinoza
1712–1778Jean-Jacques Rousseau
1623–1662Blaise Pascal
1632–1704John Locke
1711–1776David Hume
1588–1679Thomas Hobbes
1713–1784Denis Diderot
1599–1658Oliver Cromwell
1628–1688John Bunyan
1667–1748Johann Bernoulli
1655–1705Jakob Bernoulli