{"slug": "emperor-guangwu-of-han", "label": "Emperor Guangwu of Han", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Guangwu_of_Han", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7268", "qid": "Q7268", "description": "emperor and founder of the Eastern Han Dynasty (5 BC - AD 57) (r. AD 25 - AD 57)", "entries": 11, "years": 10, "span": [-4, 57], "span_label": ["5 BCE", "57 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 4}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 3}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 1}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 1}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "han-dynasty", "label": "Han dynasty", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "china", "label": "China", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "japan", "label": "Japan", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "vietnam", "label": "Vietnam", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "xiongnu", "label": "Xiongnu", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "inner-mongolia", "label": "Inner Mongolia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "wang-mang", "label": "Wang Mang", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "xin-dynasty", "label": "Xin dynasty", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": -4, "year_label": "5 BCE", "section": "Births", "date": "January 15", "text": "January 15 – Guang Wu, Chinese emperor of the Han Dynasty (d. AD 57)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371257874#5_BC", "title": "0s BC", "revid": 1371257874, "section": "Births › 5 BC"}}, {"year": 10, "year_label": "10 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The usurper Wang Mang (who rules during a brief interregnum known as the Xin dynasty) outlaws the private purchase and use of crossbows. Despite this, Liu Xiu, the later Emperor Guangwu of Han, buys crossbows in the winter of AD 22 to aid the rebellion of his brother Liu Yan (styled Bosheng) and Li Tong.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371078816#China", "title": "10s", "revid": 1371078816, "section": "Events › 10 AD › China"}}, {"year": 23, "year_label": "23 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "July", "text": "July – After being under siege for two months, about 19,000 insurgents under Liu Xiu defeat 450,000 of Wang Mang's troops in the Battle of Kunyang, ushering in the fall of Wang Mang's Xin dynasty and restoration of the Han dynasty.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369984933#China", "title": "20s", "revid": 1369984933, "section": "Events › 23 AD › China"}}, {"year": 25, "year_label": "25 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "August 5", "text": "August 5 – The Han dynasty is restored in China as Liu Xiu proclaims himself Emperor Guangwu of Han, starting the Jianwu era (until AD 56).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369984933#China", "title": "20s", "revid": 1369984933, "section": "Events › 25 AD › China"}}, {"year": 26, "year_label": "26 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "Xinlun is presented by author Huan Tan to Emperor Guangwu of Han with its final chapter (on zither music) still unfinished.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369984933#Han_dynasty", "title": "20s", "revid": 1369984933, "section": "Events › 26 AD › Han dynasty"}}, {"year": 36, "year_label": "36 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "December 25", "text": "December 25 – Wu Han commands the forces of Emperor Guang Wu of the Eastern Han to conquer the separatist Chengjia Empire, reuniting China.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369986487#China", "title": "30s", "revid": 1369986487, "section": "Events › 36 AD › China"}}, {"year": 40, "year_label": "40 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Vietnamese Trưng Sisters rebel against the rule of the Chinese Emperor Guang Wu of Han.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373289291#AD_40", "title": "40s", "revid": 1373289291, "section": "Timeline › AD 40"}}, {"year": 41, "year_label": "41 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Emperor Guang Wu of the Han Dynasty deposes his wife, Guo Shengtong, as empress, and makes his consort Yin Lihua empress in her place.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373289291#AD_41", "title": "40s", "revid": 1373289291, "section": "Timeline › AD 41"}}, {"year": 48, "year_label": "48 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Emperor Guang Wu of Han, restores Chinese domination of Inner Mongolia. The Xiongnu are made confederates and guard the Northern border of the empire.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373289291#AD_48", "title": "40s", "revid": 1373289291, "section": "Timeline › AD 48"}}, {"year": 57, "year_label": "57 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Emperor Guang Wu grants Nakoku (located around modern-day Fukuoka City) a golden seal, being the oldest evidence of writing in Japan. In return King Na sends an envoy to China.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373339620#China", "title": "50s", "revid": 1373339620, "section": "Events › 57 AD › China"}}, {"year": 57, "year_label": "57 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "March 29", "text": "March 29 – Guang Wu, Chinese emperor (b. 5 BC)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373339620#57_AD", "title": "50s", "revid": 1373339620, "section": "Deaths › 57 AD"}}]}