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Japanese missions to Ming China: Ming officials refuse to meet with Japanese envoys. [237] Famine strikes Zhejiang again. [244] 1545: January: An outbreak of pestilence occurs in Beijing. [241] April: Dust storms destroy winter wheat and barley crops. [241] July: The new Imperial Ancestral Temple is completed. [240] Datong rebels and is ...
The Abbasid Caliphate and Tibetans defeated the Tang dynasty. 755–763: An–Shi Rebellion: An Lushan, An Qingxu, Shi Siming and Shi Chaoyi led a massive rebellion against Tang dynasty. 756: Battle of Tong Pass: The rebel Yan state defeats Tang dynasty and soon captured Chang'an, the capital of Tang dynasty. 756: Battle of Yongqiu
The military history of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms covers the period of Chinese history from the collapse of the Tang dynasty in 907 to the demise of Northern Han in 979. This period of Chinese history is noteworthy for the introduction of gunpowder weapons and as a transitional phase from the aristocratic imperial system to the ...
Ming-era matchlock firearms used in the 15th to 17th centuries. As soon as the Ming forces took control of the polity, changes were instituted. In the first year, 7,600 tradesmen and artisans (including gun founders) captured in Đại Ngu were sent to the Ming capital at today's Nanjing. This stripping of some of the most skilled members of ...
The Ming dynasty was the last imperial dynasty of China ruled by the Han people, the majority ethnic group in China. Although the primary capital of Beijing fell in 1644 to a rebellion led by Li Zicheng (who established the short-lived Shun dynasty ), numerous rump regimes ruled by remnants of the Ming imperial family —collectively called the ...
The Tang dynasty (/ t ɑː ŋ /, [6]; Chinese: 唐朝 [a]), or the Tang Empire, was an imperial dynasty of China that ruled from 618 to 907, with an interregnum between 690 and 705. It was preceded by the Sui dynasty and followed by the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period .
The Ming dynasty (23 January 1368 – 25 April 1644), officially the Great Ming, founded by the peasant rebel leader Zhu Yuanzhang, known as the Hongwu Emperor, was an imperial dynasty of China. It was the successor to the Yuan dynasty and the predecessor of the short-lived Shun dynasty , which was in turn succeeded by the Qing dynasty .
Twitchett, Denis (2009), The Cambridge History of China Volume 5 The Sung dynasty and its Predecessors, 907-1279, Cambridge University Press; Walker, Hugh Dyson (2012), East Asia: A New History, AuthorHouse; Wang, Zhenping (2013), Tang China in Multi-Polar Asia: A History of Diplomacy and War, University of Hawaii Press