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500 BC: Cast iron was first invented in China. 486 BC: The Wu king King Fuchai of Wu ordered the building of the Han Canal. 484 BC: Wu Zixu died. 482 BC: The Yue king King Goujian of Yue captured the Wu capital in a surprise assault. 479 BC: The generally agreed upon date of Confucius' death. 477 BC: Ji Gai died. 475 BC
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.
The Xia dynasty (c. 2070 – c. 1600 BC) is the earliest of the three dynasties described in much later traditional historiography, which includes the Bamboo Annals and Sima Qian's Shiji (c. 91 BC). The Xia is generally considered mythical by Western scholars, but in China it is usually associated with the early Bronze Age site at Erlitou (1900 ...
Imagined portrait of Qin Shi Huang, the first Emperor of a unified China. Depiction from the Qing dynasty. The Chinese monarchs were the rulers of China during Ancient and Imperial periods. [a] The earliest rulers in traditional Chinese historiography are of mythological origin, and followed by the Xia dynasty of highly uncertain and contested ...
History of ancient China. Neolithic China (c. 8500 – c. 2070 BC) – predates ancient China; Bronze Age China. Xia dynasty (c. 2070 – c. 1600 BC) Shang dynasty (c. 1600 – c. 1046 BC) Zhou dynasty (c. 1046 – 256 BC|BCE) Western Zhou (1046–771 BC) Iron Age China. Zhou dynasty (continued) Eastern Zhou. Spring and Autumn period (771 ...
Timeline of algorithms (1600 BCE – present) Timeline of category theory and related mathematics (1890 CE–present) Timeline of information theory (1872–2008) Timeline of mathematics (70,000 BCE–present) Timeline of probability and statistics (19th century–present) Timeline of women in mathematics (350-370–present)
The Sino-Indian War between China and India occurred in October–November 1962. A disputed Himalayan border was the main cause of the war. There had been a series of violent border skirmishes between the two countries after the 1959 Tibetan uprising, when India granted asylum to the Dalai Lama.
Part of a series on the: History of China; Timeline; ... The discovery in 2012 of pottery about 20,000 years BC indicates that this measure ... 2000–300 Dalongtan ...