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The Jiajing wokou raids caused extensive damage to the coast of China in the 16th century, during the reign of the Jiajing Emperor (r. 1521–67) in the Ming dynasty.The term "wokou" originally referred to Japanese pirates who crossed the sea and raided Korea and China; however, by the mid-Ming, the wokou consisted of multinational crewmen that included the Japanese and the Portuguese, but a ...
Wang Zhi was a native of She County of Huizhou (in present-day Huangshan City, Anhui).His mother was surnamed Wāng (汪) as opposed to his father's Wáng (王).Owing to the similar surnames of his parents, some sources refer to Wang Zhi by his mother's surname, thus rendering his name as Wāng Zhi 汪直 instead of Wáng Zhi 王直. [1]
14th and 16th-century wokou pirate raids One of the gates of the Chongwu Fortress on the Fujian coast (originally built c. 1384). The origin of the term wokou dates back to the 4th century, but among wokou's activities, which are divided into two academic periods, the pirates called "early wokou" were borne from the Mongol invasions of Japan.
Limahong, Lim Hong, or Lin Feng (Teochew Chinese: 林鳳, Pe̍h-ūe-jī: Lîm Hõng, Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Lîm Hōng), well known as Ah Hong (Teochew Chinese: 阿鳳, Pe̍h-ūe-jī: A-hõng, Pe̍h-ōe-jī: A-hōng) or Lim-A-Hong or Limahon (Teochew Chinese: 林阿鳳, Pe̍h-ūe-jī: Lîm A-hõng, Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Lîm A-hōng), was a Chinese pirate and warlord who invaded the northern Philippines in 1574.
The Ningbo incident (Chinese: 寧波之亂; Japanese: 寧波の乱) was a 1523 brawl between trade representatives of two Senguoku Japanese daimyō clans — the Ōuchi and the Hosokawa — in the Ming Chinese southeastern coastal city of Ningbo.
The wokou abandoned the ships and swam away, with some drowning due to the weight of their armor. [12] The Spanish had suffered their first casualties, among them the galley's captain Pedro Lucas. [12] The flotilla continued down the Cagayán River, finding a fleet of eighteen sampans and a Wokou fort erected inland. The Spanish fleet forced ...
Jiajing wokou raids: A censor reports that piracy on the southeast coast is out of control. [245] 1548: February: Jiajing wokou raids: Pirates raid Ningbo and Taizhou. [245] April: Jiajing wokou raids: Ming forces attack Shuangyu but many of the ships in the harbor escape. [245] June: Mongols defeat Ming forces at Xuanfu. [246] October: Mongols ...
Raid of Taizhou (1548) Part of Jiajing wokou raids; Location: China Portuguese pirates Ming China: Victory: Battle of al-Shihr (1548) Location: Arabian Peninsula (modern Yemen) Portuguese Empire. Mahra Sultanate. Kathiri Sultanate: Victory: Incident of Dongshan Peninsula (1549) Part of Jiajing wokou raids; Location: China Wokou. Portuguese ...