1618: Nurhaci commissions document "The Seven
Grievances" against the Ming
Nurhaci (Nǔ'ěrhāchì)
Events during the Qing Dynasty and shortly after
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George Baily
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1619: Battle of Sarhū: victory for the Manchus over the Ming
1621: Nurhaci captured Liaoyang and made it the capital of his Empire until 1625.
1635: Official adoption of the name "Manchu" for the united Jurchen people
Hong Taiji (Huángtàijí)
1636: The Qing Dynasty is proclaimed by Huang Taiji at Shenyang
1644: The Chóngzhēn Emperor, last of the Ming Dynasty,
hangs himself in Jingshan Park
1644: Battle of Shanhai Pass; Occupation of Peking: Shunzhi emperor becomes first of the Qing to rule over China proper
The Shùnzhì Emperor
1650: Prince Regent Dorgon dies; power over 12-year-old Shunzhi Emperor effectively passes to Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang
1662: Prince Gui, The Yongli Emperor, last Ming
pretender, captured in Burma and executed in Peking
The Kāngxī Emperor
1669: Manchu official Gūwalgiya Oboi imprisoned, cementing Kangxi emperor's rule
1716: Kangxi Dictionary published
1673: Start of the Revolt of the Three Feudatories (ended 1681)
1729: Under Yongzheng, the texts "Dayi Yuemilu" standardize the name of China for the first
time as a multi-ethnic nation "Dulimbai Gurun" i.e. Zhongguo, the Central Kingdom
The Yōngzhèng Emperor
1744: Qianlong Emperor's commission "Forty Scenes of the Yuanmingyuan"
1796: White Lotus Rebellion Starts, continues for 8 years (until 1804)
1795: Miao Rebellion starts, continues until 1806
1793: Lord Macartney's embassy from George III to the Qianlong Emperor
The Qiánlóng Emperor
1799: The famously corrupt Heshen, who had accumulated wealth equivalent to 15 years' worth of
the entire revenue of the Qing government, ordered to hang himself with a rope of golden silk
1811: First of a series of clauses added to the Great Qing Code opposing the spread of
Christianity in China
1843: Illustrated Treatise on the Maritime Kingdoms (Haiguo Tuzhi)
The Jiāqìng Emperor
The Dàoguāng Emperor
The Xiánfēng Emperor
1839: Lin Zexu sent by Daoguang Emperor to suppress 1839: Outbreak of the First Opium War 1839–42
opium trade in Canton
1842: The Treaty of Nanking
1835: Birth of Cíxǐ in Peking, selected in 1851
1843: The Treaty of the Bogue
as a consort of the Xianfeng Emperor
1851: The Taiping capture Nanjing
1856: Outbreak of the Second Opium War 1856–60
1858: Treaty of Tientsin
1850: Start of the Taiping Rebellion
1844: The Treaty of Wang Hiya (Wangxia) with the United States; The Treaty of Whampoa with the French
1860: Battle of Palikao; First Convention of Peking
1860: Looting and destruction of Yuan Ming Yuan
(the Gardens of Perfect Brightness / "Old Summer
Palace") in Peking by the British under Lord Elgin
1858: Treaty of Aigun with Russia
1864: End of the Taiping Rebellion
The Tóngzhì Emperor
The Guāngxù Emperor
1912: "Imperial Edict of the Abdication of the Qing
Emperor" - the end of imperial rule in China - signed on
behalf of Puyi by Empress Xiaodingjing (Yehenara)
1936: Start of the Second Sino-Japanese War (1936–45)
1931: Japanese invasion of Manchuria
1934: Puyi set up by Japanese as Kangde Emperor of Manchukuo
1919: Treaty of Versailles and May Fourth Movement
1921: Founding of the Communist Party of China
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1895: Japanese Invasion of Taiwan
1911: Empress Dowager Longyu takes power in the place of Puyi's
father Prince Chun following the Xinhai Revolution
The Xuāntǒng Emperor
Republic of China
1894: Start of the First Sino-Japanese War (1894-95) 1908: Death of Empress Dowager Cíxǐ
1898: Coup orchestrated by Cixi ends Guangxu Emperor's "Hundred Days' Reform" and places him under house arrest
1898: Second Convention of Peking, extending British territory in Hong Kong, for 99 years (expiring 1997)
1898: Start of the Boxer Rebellion (Yihetuan Movement)
1900: Siege of the International Legations in Peking
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1934: Start of the Long March
1949: Mao Zedong declares the founding of the
modern People's Republic of China
1925: Death of Sun Yat-sen
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