China

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  • 581

    Sui Dynasty

    2 emperors in this time. (Yang Jian (581-604) and Yang Guang (605-617))
  • 583

    Capital movement

    583 - Wendi moved the capital to the newly built Chang’an named for a previous Han capital city to the northwest. It became the largest city in the world for its day as well as the largest in area of any walled Chinese city. Under the Tang Dynasty it was the most cosmopolitan city.
  • 584

    Grand Canal

    584-589 the building period of the Grand Canal
  • 589

    Reunited at last

    589- China becomes reunited.
  • 617

    Fall of Sui

    Taxes burdened peasants despite the great wall and the Grand Canal providing a flourishing economy. Revolts had also broken out and had caused a decline.
  • 618

    Tang Dynsaty

    Gaozu (r. 618-616)/(Li Yuan)
    given after his death.
    Taizong (626-649)
    Gaozong (649-683)
    Zhonzong and Ruizong (683-690)
    Wu Zhao (Empress Wu) (690-700)
    Xuanzong (712-756)
  • 635

    Church

    635- Taizong had welcomed Christians and allowed a church to be built.
  • 690

    The first empress

    690 Empress Wu usurped power for herself and became the only female emperor in Chinese history.
  • 841

    Religious supression

    841 Suppression of Buddhism and other foreign religions occurred: many temples were closed, the government took religions wealth This persecution cut China off from contact with Central Asia and India where Buddhism then declined in favor of Islam and other religions.
  • 875

    Rebellion

    875- Rebellions had sparked, thus destroying the Tang dynasty.
  • 907

    Fall of the Tang

    The emperor and his heritage line had been assassinated, thus allowing a battle for power from warlords.

  • Qing Dynasty

    Kangxi (1662-1722)
    Yongzheng (1722-1736)
    Qianlong (1736-95)
    Guangxu (1898-19090

  • Treaty of Nanjing

    1840-1842 Opium War occurred ending with the Nanjing Treaty which gave Hong Kong to Great Britain.

  • A whole lot of crazy

    1850-1864 The peasants rose up in the Taiping Rebellion to follow the "younger brother of Christ" to overthrow the Qing Dynasty.

  • Boxer Rebellion

    1900 Boxer Rebellion occurred.

  • The Qing Ending

    1911 Qing Dynasty was overthrown by revolutionaries.