Qing-Ming China

By double cork 720
  • Jan 1, 1565

    First Spanish trading galleon reaches Philippines

  • Jan 1, 1571

    Spanish begin trade with Ming China

    This leads to a rapid influx of American silver to China leading to the taxes being based off of silver. This makes, to a further extent, the whole economy dependent on a large of silver.
  • Period: Jan 1, 1572 to

    Reign of the Wanli Emperor

    Ascended to the throne at age 9 and was protected for his whole childhood. However, he refused to deal with any state affairs or have any interaction with the bureacracy because he barely had any power. This allowed the bureaucrats to rule the country themselves, adding to the decline of the Ming dynasty.

  • Dutch and English raids on Spanish silver ships restrict slilver flow to China

    This added to the already worsening decline of China in that taxes could not be collected when there was not enough silver as the only currency was silver.
  • Period: to

    Reign of the Tianqi Emperor

  • Period: to

    Reign of the Chongzen Emperor

  • The Manchu conquer Inner Mongolia

  • Japanese clamp down on foreign traders

    This limited the availability of silver in China, which was used to pay taxes at that time, destabilizing the economy further.
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    Reign of the Shunzhi Emperor

    For the first part of his reign he held no real power because he was coronated at age 6 and his uncle, Dogan, ruled for him as regeant. He died of small pox.

  • Beginning of the Qing Dynasty!

    Upon arriving in Beijing with the Ming army, which had allied with them, the Manchu seized it and declared themselves emperors. When they took the throne their population numbered only 1 million, with the population of their realm being 250 million.

  • Li Zicheng, a rebel leader, captures Beijing

    There were only a few companies of soldiers and a few thousand eunuchs were present to defend the 21 miles of walls. A few days after Zicheng captured Beijing, the Emperor hanged himself.
    This prompted the commander of the Ming army to ally with the Manchu to take back Beijing.

  • The Qing Capture Shandong

  • The Qing capture Shaanxi and Sichuan

  • The Qing Capture Yunnan

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    Reign of Kangxi

    Reageants ruled until he was 15, 1669, when he expelled the last one with the help of his grandmother.

  • Kangxi issues the sacred edict

    This edict serves to bolster China by codifing 16 maxims on Confucian values, that helped to grow his popularity with Han China and promoted him as a father figure.

  • War of the Three Feudatories begins

    This was the war in which three southern generals aposed Kangxi's rule, and the Manchu rule as a whole, by declaring their own dynasties as the true and right dynasty.

  • War of the Three Feudatories ends

    At the end of this war all of three generals' followers were executed, sending a clear signal of Kangxi's intolerance of rebellion. This helped him to consolidate the holdings he already had as well as annex new lands to the south.

  • The Qing capture Taiwan

  • The Qing conquer Outer Mongolia

  • Canton System forms unofficially

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    Reing of the Yongzheng Emperor

  • Period: to

    Reign of the Qianlong Emperor

  • Tibet becomes a protectorate of the Qing

  • The Qing Conquer Zungharia

  • Formation of Canton System by Imperial decree

  • The Qing conquer East Turkestan