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Han, China 2 China 3 Chang'an, China Tuesday Jan 3, 6 China 8 Chang'an, China 9 Chang'an, China 10 (Present-Day Rizhao, China) 17 Kunyang, Henan, China 23 Chang'an, China Friday Oct 6, 23 China 25 China 25 Luoyang, China Tuesday Aug 5, 25 China 27 Anling, Fufeng County, China 32 China Thursday Mar 29, 57 Luoyang, China 68 Hami City, China Feb, 73 Luoyang, China 75 China 83 China 86 China 88 China 100 China Friday Feb 13, 105 Luoyang, China Mar, 105 China 105 Luoyang, China 106 Luoyang, China 106 China Monday Apr 30, 125 Luoyang, Han dynasty, China 125 Han, China Monday Dec 10, 125 Luoyang, China 125 China 132 China 142 Luoyang, China 144 Han, China Monday Feb 15, 145 Han, China Saturday Mar 6, 145 Han, China Tuesday Jul 26, 146 Han dynasty, China Monday Aug 1, 146 Han dynasty, China 147 China 166 Daqin (Present-Day in China) 166 Roman EmpireRoman embassy from "Daqin"
Daqin (Present-Day in China) 166 It is possible that an alleged Roman embassy from "Daqin" that arrived in Eastern Han China in 166 via a Roman maritime route into the South China Sea, landing at Jiaozhou (northern Vietnam) and bearing gifts for the Emperor Huan of Han (r. 146–168), was sent by Marcus Aurelius, or his predecessor Antoninus Pius (the confusion stems from the transliteration of their names as "Andun", Chinese: 安敦).
Han, China 166 Han, China 168 Han, China Monday Jan 25, 168 Qi County, Henan, China 170s China 179 China 180 China 184 Hexi Corridor, China 184 China 185 Han, China Wednesday May 13, 189 Han, China 189 Han, China 189 Han, China Monday Sep 28, 189 Henan, China Feb, 190 China Tuesday May 22, 192 China 194 Han, China 197 Xiapi, Xu Province (Present-Day Pizhou, Jiangsu, China) 198 Northeast of present-day Zhongmu County, Henan, China Nov, 200 Close to the Yangtze River, China 208 Tong Pass (Present-Day Tongguan County, Shaanxi, China) Sep, 211 Yi Province (Present-Day Sichuan and Chongqing), China 215 East of Hefei, Anhui, China 215 Hanzhong, Shaanxi, China 219 Fancheng (Present-Day Fancheng District, Xiangyang, Hubei, China) Aug, 219 Hubei, China Nov, 219 Han, China Sunday Dec 10, 220 Shu Han, China 221 China 6th Century MeditationFirst Original School
China 6th Century The Silk Road transmission of Buddhism introduced meditation to other oriental countries. Bodhidharma is traditionally considered the transmitter of the concept of Zen to China. However, the first "original school" in East Asia was founded by his contemporary Zhiyi in the 6th century in central China. Zhiyi managed to systematically organize the various teachings that had been imported from India in a way that their relationship with each other made sense.
China 7th Century China 1st Millenium Great Wall of ChinaOther Dynasty's walls
China 1st Millenium Non-Han dynasties also built their border walls: the Xianbei-ruled Northern Wei, the Khitan-ruled Liao, Jurchen Jin and the Tangut-established Western Xia, who ruled vast territories over Northern China throughout centuries, all constructed defensive walls but those were located much to the north of the other Great Walls as we know it, within China's province of Inner Mongolia and in Mongolia itself.
China 616 China 2698 BC Martial artsChinese martial arts originated
China 2698 BC Chinese martial arts originated during the legendary, possibly apocryphal, Xia Dynasty more than 4000 years ago. It is said the Yellow Emperor Huangdi (c. 2698 BCE) introduced the earliest fighting systems to China. The Yellow Emperor is described as a famous general who before becoming China's leader, wrote lengthy treatises on medicine, astrology and martial arts. One of his main opponents was Chi You who was credited as the creator of jiao di, a forerunner to the modern art of Chinese wrestling.
Mongol Empire (now China) Wednesday Sep 27, 1290 Disasters with highest death tolls1290 Chihli Earthquake
Mongol Empire (now China) Wednesday Sep 27, 1290 The 1290 Chihli earthquake occurred on 27 September with an epicenter near Ningcheng, Zhongshu Sheng (Zhili or Chihli), Yuan Empire. The earthquake had an estimated surface wave magnitude of 6.8 and a maximum felt intensity of IX (Violent) on the Mercalli intensity scale. One estimate places the death toll at 7,270, while another has it at 100,000.
Mongol Empire (now China) Tuesday Sep 25, 1303 Disasters with highest death tolls1303 Hongdong Earthquake
Mongol Empire (now China) Tuesday Sep 25, 1303 The 1303 Hongdong earthquake occurred in China, then part of the Mongol Empire, on September 25. The shock was estimated to have a magnitude of 8.0 and it had a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme). With catastrophic damage, it was one of the deadliest recorded earthquakes of all time. In Taiyuan and Pingyang, nearly 100,000 houses collapsed and over 200,000 people died from collapsing buildings and loess caves in a similar manner to the situation that would be experienced 253 years later in the 1556 Shaanxi earthquake (陕西).
China 1310 China, Eurasia 1334 PlagueThe second plague pandemic breaks out in China
China, Eurasia 1334 The second plague pandemic breaks out in China. Widely known as the "Black Death" or the Great Plague, it is regarded as one of the most devastating pandemics in human history, resulting in the deaths of an estimated 75 to 200 million people in Eurasia.
Central Asia 1338 China and India 1346 14th Century Great Wall of ChinaReviving the great wall concept
14th Century The Great Wall concept was revived again under the Ming in the 14th century, and following the Ming army's defeat by the Oirats in the Battle of Tumu. The Ming had failed to gain a clear upper hand over the Mongolian tribes after successive battles, and the long-drawn conflict was taking a toll on the empire. The Ming adopted a new strategy to keep the nomadic tribes out by constructing walls along the northern border of China. Acknowledging the Mongol control established in the Ordos Desert, the wall followed the desert's southern edge instead of incorporating the bend of the Yellow River.
Ming Dynasty (Present Day China) 1408 LibrariesYongle Encyclopedia
Ming Dynasty (Present Day China) 1408 The Ming Dynasty in 1407 founded the imperial library, the Wen Yuan Pavilion. It also sponsored the massive compilation of the Yongle Encyclopedia, containing 11,000 volumes including copies of over 7000 books. It was soon destroyed, but similar very large compilations appeared in 1725 and 1772.
China 15th Century Great Wall of ChinaLiaodong Wall
China 15th Century During the 1440s–1460s, the Ming also built a so-called "Liaodong Wall". Similar in function to the Great Wall (whose extension, in a sense, it was), but more basic in construction, the Liaodong Wall enclosed the agricultural heartland of the Liaodong province, protecting it against potential incursions by Jurched-Mongol Oriyanghan from the northwest and the Jianzhou Jurchens from the north.
Qingyang, Gansu, China 1490 Disasters with highest death tolls1490 CH'Ing-Yang Event
Qingyang, Gansu, China 1490 The Ch'ing-yang event of 1490 (also Ch'ing-yang, Chi-ing-yang or Chíing-yang meteor shower) is a presumed meteor shower or air burst in Qingyang in March or April 1490. The area was in the province of Shaanxi but is now part of Gansu. If a meteor shower did occur, it may have been the result of the disintegration of an asteroid during an atmospheric entry air burst. More than 10,000 people were struck dead. All of the people in the city fled to other places.
China Sunday Jan 22, 1556 Disasters with highest death tolls1556 Shaanxi Earthquake
China Sunday Jan 22, 1556 The 1556 Shaanxi earthquake or Huaxian earthquake is the deadliest earthquake in recorded history: according to imperial records approximately 830,000 people lost their lives. It occurred on the morning of 23 January 1556 in Shaanxi, during the Ming Dynasty. More than 97 counties in the provinces of Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan, Gansu, Hebei, Shandong, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu and Anhui were affected.
Ming Dynasty (Present Day Ningbo, Zhejiang, China) 1561 China 1567 China 1570s Changshou District, Chongqing, China 1639 Liaodong, China 1644 Great Wall of ChinaThe end of the Ming
Liaodong, China 1644 Towards the end of the Ming, the Great Wall helped defend the empire against the Manchu invasions that began around 1600. Even after the loss of all of Liaodong, the Ming army held the heavily fortified Shanhai Pass, preventing the Manchus from conquering the Chinese heartland. The Manchus were finally able to cross the Great Wall in 1644, after Beijing had already fallen to Li Zicheng's rebels.
China 1644 Great Wall of ChinaQing rule
China 1644 Under Qing rule, China's borders extended beyond the walls and Mongolia was annexed into the empire, so constructions on the Great Wall were discontinued. On the other hand, the so-called Willow Palisade, following a line similar to that of the Ming Liaodong Wall, was constructed by the Qing rulers in Manchuria. Its purpose, however, was not defense but rather to prevent Han Chinese migration into Manchuria.
Qing Empire (now China) Wednesday Jul 25, 1668 Qing Empire (now China) Sunday Jun 19, 1718 China 1772 Sichuan, China 1786 China Monday Aug 29, 1842 Xinhai RevolutionThe First Opium War
China Monday Aug 29, 1842 After suffering its first defeat to the West in the First Opium War in 1842, the Qing imperial court struggled to contain foreign intrusions into China. Efforts to adjust and reform the traditional methods of governance were constrained by a deeply conservative court culture that did not want to give away too much authority to reform.
Worldwide 19th Century Disasters with highest death tollsThird Pandemic of Bubonic Plague (1855–1960)
Worldwide 19th Century Third Pandemic is the designation of a major bubonic plague pandemic that began in Yunnan province in China in 1855, fifth year of the Xianfeng Emperor of the Qing dynasty. This episode of bubonic plague spread to all inhabited continents, and ultimately more than 12 million people died in India and China, with about 10 million killed in India alone. According to the World Health Organization, the pandemic was considered active until 1960, when worldwide casualties dropped to 200 per year.
China Wednesday Oct 24, 1860 China 1861 China 1867 Han, China 2 China 3 Chang'an, China Tuesday Jan 3, 6 China 8 Chang'an, China 9 Chang'an, China 10 (Present-Day Rizhao, China) 17 Kunyang, Henan, China 23 Chang'an, China Friday Oct 6, 23 China 25 China 25 Luoyang, China Tuesday Aug 5, 25 China 27 Anling, Fufeng County, China 32 China Thursday Mar 29, 57 Luoyang, China 68 Hami City, China Feb, 73 Luoyang, China 75 China 83 China 86 China 88 China 100 China Friday Feb 13, 105 Luoyang, China Mar, 105 China 105 Luoyang, China 106 Luoyang, China 106 China Monday Apr 30, 125 Luoyang, Han dynasty, China 125 Han, China Monday Dec 10, 125 Luoyang, China 125 China 132 China 142 Luoyang, China 144 Han, China Monday Feb 15, 145 Han, China Saturday Mar 6, 145 Han, China Tuesday Jul 26, 146 Han dynasty, China Monday Aug 1, 146 Han dynasty, China 147 China 166 Daqin (Present-Day in China) 166 Roman EmpireRoman embassy from "Daqin"
Daqin (Present-Day in China) 166 It is possible that an alleged Roman embassy from "Daqin" that arrived in Eastern Han China in 166 via a Roman maritime route into the South China Sea, landing at Jiaozhou (northern Vietnam) and bearing gifts for the Emperor Huan of Han (r. 146–168), was sent by Marcus Aurelius, or his predecessor Antoninus Pius (the confusion stems from the transliteration of their names as "Andun", Chinese: 安敦).
Han, China 166 Han, China 168 Han, China Monday Jan 25, 168 Qi County, Henan, China 170s China 179 China 180 China 184 Hexi Corridor, China 184 China 185 Han, China Wednesday May 13, 189 Han, China 189 Han, China 189 Han, China Monday Sep 28, 189 Henan, China Feb, 190 China Tuesday May 22, 192 China 194 Han, China 197 Xiapi, Xu Province (Present-Day Pizhou, Jiangsu, China) 198 Northeast of present-day Zhongmu County, Henan, China Nov, 200 Close to the Yangtze River, China 208 Tong Pass (Present-Day Tongguan County, Shaanxi, China) Sep, 211 Yi Province (Present-Day Sichuan and Chongqing), China 215 East of Hefei, Anhui, China 215 Hanzhong, Shaanxi, China 219 Fancheng (Present-Day Fancheng District, Xiangyang, Hubei, China) Aug, 219 Hubei, China Nov, 219 Han, China Sunday Dec 10, 220 Shu Han, China 221 China 6th Century MeditationFirst Original School
China 6th Century The Silk Road transmission of Buddhism introduced meditation to other oriental countries. Bodhidharma is traditionally considered the transmitter of the concept of Zen to China. However, the first "original school" in East Asia was founded by his contemporary Zhiyi in the 6th century in central China. Zhiyi managed to systematically organize the various teachings that had been imported from India in a way that their relationship with each other made sense.
China 7th Century China 1st Millenium Great Wall of ChinaOther Dynasty's walls
China 1st Millenium Non-Han dynasties also built their border walls: the Xianbei-ruled Northern Wei, the Khitan-ruled Liao, Jurchen Jin and the Tangut-established Western Xia, who ruled vast territories over Northern China throughout centuries, all constructed defensive walls but those were located much to the north of the other Great Walls as we know it, within China's province of Inner Mongolia and in Mongolia itself.
China 616 China 2698 BC Martial artsChinese martial arts originated
China 2698 BC Chinese martial arts originated during the legendary, possibly apocryphal, Xia Dynasty more than 4000 years ago. It is said the Yellow Emperor Huangdi (c. 2698 BCE) introduced the earliest fighting systems to China. The Yellow Emperor is described as a famous general who before becoming China's leader, wrote lengthy treatises on medicine, astrology and martial arts. One of his main opponents was Chi You who was credited as the creator of jiao di, a forerunner to the modern art of Chinese wrestling.
Mongol Empire (now China) Wednesday Sep 27, 1290 Disasters with highest death tolls1290 Chihli Earthquake
Mongol Empire (now China) Wednesday Sep 27, 1290 The 1290 Chihli earthquake occurred on 27 September with an epicenter near Ningcheng, Zhongshu Sheng (Zhili or Chihli), Yuan Empire. The earthquake had an estimated surface wave magnitude of 6.8 and a maximum felt intensity of IX (Violent) on the Mercalli intensity scale. One estimate places the death toll at 7,270, while another has it at 100,000.
Mongol Empire (now China) Tuesday Sep 25, 1303 Disasters with highest death tolls1303 Hongdong Earthquake
Mongol Empire (now China) Tuesday Sep 25, 1303 The 1303 Hongdong earthquake occurred in China, then part of the Mongol Empire, on September 25. The shock was estimated to have a magnitude of 8.0 and it had a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme). With catastrophic damage, it was one of the deadliest recorded earthquakes of all time. In Taiyuan and Pingyang, nearly 100,000 houses collapsed and over 200,000 people died from collapsing buildings and loess caves in a similar manner to the situation that would be experienced 253 years later in the 1556 Shaanxi earthquake (陕西).
China 1310 China, Eurasia 1334 PlagueThe second plague pandemic breaks out in China
China, Eurasia 1334 The second plague pandemic breaks out in China. Widely known as the "Black Death" or the Great Plague, it is regarded as one of the most devastating pandemics in human history, resulting in the deaths of an estimated 75 to 200 million people in Eurasia.
Central Asia 1338 China and India 1346 14th Century Great Wall of ChinaReviving the great wall concept
14th Century The Great Wall concept was revived again under the Ming in the 14th century, and following the Ming army's defeat by the Oirats in the Battle of Tumu. The Ming had failed to gain a clear upper hand over the Mongolian tribes after successive battles, and the long-drawn conflict was taking a toll on the empire. The Ming adopted a new strategy to keep the nomadic tribes out by constructing walls along the northern border of China. Acknowledging the Mongol control established in the Ordos Desert, the wall followed the desert's southern edge instead of incorporating the bend of the Yellow River.
Ming Dynasty (Present Day China) 1408 LibrariesYongle Encyclopedia
Ming Dynasty (Present Day China) 1408 The Ming Dynasty in 1407 founded the imperial library, the Wen Yuan Pavilion. It also sponsored the massive compilation of the Yongle Encyclopedia, containing 11,000 volumes including copies of over 7000 books. It was soon destroyed, but similar very large compilations appeared in 1725 and 1772.
China 15th Century Great Wall of ChinaLiaodong Wall
China 15th Century During the 1440s–1460s, the Ming also built a so-called "Liaodong Wall". Similar in function to the Great Wall (whose extension, in a sense, it was), but more basic in construction, the Liaodong Wall enclosed the agricultural heartland of the Liaodong province, protecting it against potential incursions by Jurched-Mongol Oriyanghan from the northwest and the Jianzhou Jurchens from the north.
Qingyang, Gansu, China 1490 Disasters with highest death tolls1490 CH'Ing-Yang Event
Qingyang, Gansu, China 1490 The Ch'ing-yang event of 1490 (also Ch'ing-yang, Chi-ing-yang or Chíing-yang meteor shower) is a presumed meteor shower or air burst in Qingyang in March or April 1490. The area was in the province of Shaanxi but is now part of Gansu. If a meteor shower did occur, it may have been the result of the disintegration of an asteroid during an atmospheric entry air burst. More than 10,000 people were struck dead. All of the people in the city fled to other places.
China Sunday Jan 22, 1556 Disasters with highest death tolls1556 Shaanxi Earthquake
China Sunday Jan 22, 1556 The 1556 Shaanxi earthquake or Huaxian earthquake is the deadliest earthquake in recorded history: according to imperial records approximately 830,000 people lost their lives. It occurred on the morning of 23 January 1556 in Shaanxi, during the Ming Dynasty. More than 97 counties in the provinces of Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan, Gansu, Hebei, Shandong, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu and Anhui were affected.
Ming Dynasty (Present Day Ningbo, Zhejiang, China) 1561 China 1567 China 1570s Changshou District, Chongqing, China 1639 Liaodong, China 1644 Great Wall of ChinaThe end of the Ming
Liaodong, China 1644 Towards the end of the Ming, the Great Wall helped defend the empire against the Manchu invasions that began around 1600. Even after the loss of all of Liaodong, the Ming army held the heavily fortified Shanhai Pass, preventing the Manchus from conquering the Chinese heartland. The Manchus were finally able to cross the Great Wall in 1644, after Beijing had already fallen to Li Zicheng's rebels.
China 1644 Great Wall of ChinaQing rule
China 1644 Under Qing rule, China's borders extended beyond the walls and Mongolia was annexed into the empire, so constructions on the Great Wall were discontinued. On the other hand, the so-called Willow Palisade, following a line similar to that of the Ming Liaodong Wall, was constructed by the Qing rulers in Manchuria. Its purpose, however, was not defense but rather to prevent Han Chinese migration into Manchuria.
Qing Empire (now China) Wednesday Jul 25, 1668 Qing Empire (now China) Sunday Jun 19, 1718 China 1772 Sichuan, China 1786 China Monday Aug 29, 1842 Xinhai RevolutionThe First Opium War
China Monday Aug 29, 1842 After suffering its first defeat to the West in the First Opium War in 1842, the Qing imperial court struggled to contain foreign intrusions into China. Efforts to adjust and reform the traditional methods of governance were constrained by a deeply conservative court culture that did not want to give away too much authority to reform.
Worldwide 19th Century Disasters with highest death tollsThird Pandemic of Bubonic Plague (1855–1960)
Worldwide 19th Century Third Pandemic is the designation of a major bubonic plague pandemic that began in Yunnan province in China in 1855, fifth year of the Xianfeng Emperor of the Qing dynasty. This episode of bubonic plague spread to all inhabited continents, and ultimately more than 12 million people died in India and China, with about 10 million killed in India alone. According to the World Health Organization, the pandemic was considered active until 1960, when worldwide casualties dropped to 200 per year.
China Wednesday Oct 24, 1860 China 1861 China 1867
