1647 in China
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See also: | Other events of 1647 History of China • Timeline • Years |
Events from the year 1647 in China.
Incumbents
- Qing dynasty - Shunzhi Emperor
- Southern Ming pretender - Yongli Emperor (Zhu Youlang)
- Xi dynasty - Zhang Xianzhong
Events
- Transition from Ming to Qing
- 20 January 1647, a small Qing force led by former Southern Ming commander Li Chengdong (李成東) captures Guangzhou, kills the Shaowu Emperor and sends the Yongli Emperor fleeing to Nanning in Guangxi.[1]
Deaths
- Zhang Xianzhong - killed in Shaanxi by Qing forces
- Gao Guiying - female anti-Qing military leader
References
- ^ Wakeman 1985, p. 738.
- Wakeman, Frederic Jr. (1985), The Great Enterprise: The Manchu Reconstruction of Imperial Order in Seventeenth-Century China, Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press, ISBN 978-0-520-04804-1.
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