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Once the mobs started to clamor for him, he declared himself emperor in rivalry with Severus. [1] With allies in the eastern part of the empire, he gathered an army and fought Severus throughout the empire for two years. He eventually lost the civil war during a battle near the city of Issus in 194. [2]
The Five Emperors were exemplary sages who possessed great moral character, and were from a golden age when "communications between the human order and the divine were central to all life" and where the sages embodied the divine, or aided humans in communicating divine forces.
The Five Emperors may refer to: The Five Good Emperors of the Roman Empire who ruled from 96 to 180: Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian, Antoninus Pius and Marcus Aurelius; Year of the Five Emperors, 193 CE; The Five Emperors and Three Sovereigns, mythical rulers of ancient China; Wufang Shangdi a set of five Chinese deities called Emperors
Most emperors of the Imperial period also received a temple name (廟號; Miàohào), used to venerate them in ancestor worship. [14] From the rule of Emperor Wu of Han (r. 141–87 BCE) onwards, [c] emperors also adopted one or several era names (年號; Niánhào), or "reign mottos", [17] to divide their rule by important events or ...
5 years Jingchu 景初: 237–239 CE 3 years Usage continued by Cao Fang upon his ascension to the throne. Cao Fang (r. 239–254 CE) Zhengshi 正始: 240–249 CE 10 years Jiaping 嘉平: 249–254 CE 6 years Cao Mao (r. 254–260 CE) Zhengyuan 正元: 254–256 CE 3 years Ganlu 甘露: 256–260 CE 5 years Emperor Yuan of Cao Wei (r. 260 ...
The emperors order for the guards to kill Acacius, and several soldiers shoot him to death with arrows sent flying from across the arena. The crowd hates the decision — hinting at another uprising.
The Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period (Chinese: 五代十國) was an era of political upheaval and division in Imperial China from 907 to 979. Five dynastic states quickly succeeded one another in the Central Plain, and more than a dozen concurrent dynastic states, collectively known as the Ten Kingdoms, were established elsewhere, mainly in South China.
Later Shu: Meng Zhixiang declares himself emperor of Later Shu and dies not long after and is succeeded by his son Meng Chang [7] 936: 28 November: Later Jin: Khitans install Shi Jingtang as emperor of the Later Jin. In return Shi transfers 16 prefectures in Shanxi and Hebei to the Liao. [7] Later Jin: Conquers Later Tang [7] 937