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Unified China and proclaimed himself Emperor after victory in the Chu–Han Contention. 256 – 1 June 195 BCE (aged 61) Among the most revered Chinese emperors. Died from an arrow injury in a campaign against Ying Bu [ 94 ] Hui 惠帝. Liu Ying 劉盈. 23 June 195 – 26 September 188 BCE (7 years, 3 months and 3 days) Son of Gao.
Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor of China (r. 221–210 BC).[1] Mid 19th century depiction. Throughout Chinese history, "Emperor" (Chinese: 皇帝; pinyin: Huángdì) was the superlative title held by the monarchs who ruled various imperial dynasties or Chinese empires. In traditional Chinese political theory, the emperor was the "Son of Heaven ...
For most of its history, China was organized into various dynastic states under the rule of hereditary monarchs.Beginning with the establishment of dynastic rule by Yu the Great c. 2070 BC, [1] and ending with the abdication of the Xuantong Emperor in AD 1912, Chinese historiography came to organize itself around the succession of monarchical dynasties.
Dōngwǔ 東武. –. Other Ming claimants included Zhu Benli, Prince of Han (1646–1663) and Zhu Changqing, Prince of Huai (1648–1661). If Zhu Benli existed, he would be the last legal emperor of Southern Ming from the execution (1662) of Zhu Youlang.
The era is conventionally divided between the Western Han (202 BC – 9 AD) and Eastern Han (25–220 AD) periods. The Han dynasty was founded by the peasant rebel leader Liu Bang, known posthumously as Emperor Gao (r. 202 –195 BC) or Gaodi. The longest reigning emperor of the dynasty was Emperor Wu (r. 141–87 BC), or Wudi, who reigned for ...
The three most powerful regents of the Qing dynasty: (from left to right) Dorgon (r. 1643–1650), Oboi (r. 1661–1669), and Empress Dowager Cixi (r. 1861–1889 and 1898–1908) The reign of the Shunzhi Emperor ended when he died of smallpox in 1661 at the age of 22. [19]
List of emperors of the Yuan dynasty. Kublai Khan (r. 1260–1294), the grandson of Genghis Khan, proclaimed the Yuan dynasty in 1271. The Yuan dynasty was an imperial dynasty of China, proclaimed on 18 December 1271 by Kublai Khan, which succeeded the Song dynasty and preceded the Ming dynasty. It also functioned as a continuation of the ...
Yuan declared himself the Hongxian Emperor of the Empire of China. The progressive, anti-Confucian New Culture Movement was founded. 25 December: National Protection War: The republican generals Cai E and Tang Jiyao declared the independence of Yunnan from the Empire of China. 1916: 16 June: Yuan died. [9] 1917: 7 November