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Daoguang (道光) 9 March 1850 – 30 January 1851. Xianfeng (咸豐) 1 February 1851 – 22 August 1861. Son of Daoguang. 17 July 1831 – 22 August 1861 (aged 30) The last Chinese emperor to have personal power for the entirety of his reign, which was unstable after the Taiping Rebellion, Nian Rebellion and Second Opium War.
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 ...
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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.
v. t. e. Chinese Empire (or Empire of China) is a term referring to the realm ruled by the Emperor of China during the era known as Imperial China. It was coined by western scholars and used to describe the Ming and Qing dynasties (or imperial Chinese dynasties in general). Another term was "Celestial Empire", in reference to the status of the ...
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 ...
List of emperors of the Tang dynasty. Emperor of the Tang dynasty. .mw-parser-output .nobold {font-weight:normal} 唐朝皇帝. Imperial. First to reign Emperor Gaozu 618–626. Details. Style. His Imperial Majesty Zhaijia (宅家) Shengren (聖人) Khan of Heaven (天可汗) (Taizong → Daizong) First monarch.