{"slug": "history-of-china", "label": "History of China", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_China", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q82972", "qid": "Q82972", "description": "account of past events in the Chinese civilisation", "entries": 12, "years": 12, "span": [-719, 845], "span_label": ["720 BCE", "845 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Deaths", "count": 5}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 2}, {"title": "Science & Discovery", "count": 1}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 1}, {"title": "Economy & Finance", "count": 1}, {"title": "Health & Medicine", "count": 1}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "tang-dynasty", "label": "Tang dynasty", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "emperor-gaozong-of-tang", "label": "Emperor Gaozong of Tang", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "wu-zetian", "label": "Wu Zetian", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "mesopotamia", "label": "Mesopotamia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "northern-wei", "label": "Northern Wei", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "liu-song-dynasty", "label": "Liu Song dynasty", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "chinese-buddhism", "label": "Chinese Buddhism", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "monastery", "label": "Monastery", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "nestorianism", "label": "Nestorianism", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "manichaeism", "label": "Manichaeism", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "zoroastrianism", "label": "Zoroastrianism", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "qin-state", "label": "Qin (state)", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": -719, "year_label": "720 BCE", "section": "Science & Discovery", "date": null, "text": "720 BC—Birth of Guan Zhong, political adviser of Qi in eastern ancient China.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1357668239#Significant_people", "title": "720s BC", "revid": 1357668239, "section": "Significant people"}}, {"year": -385, "year_label": "386 BCE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "The Chinese city of Handan is founded by the State of Zhao.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363395299#China", "title": "386 BC", "revid": 1363395299, "section": "Events › By place › China"}}, {"year": -355, "year_label": "356 BCE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "With his reforms initiated in this year, the Chinese prime minister Shang Yang starts to transform the once marginal and frontier State of Qin to become the most dominant military force amongst the Warring States of China by the 3rd century BC.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1343819365#China", "title": "356 BC", "revid": 1343819365, "section": "Events › By place › China"}}, {"year": -199, "year_label": "200 BCE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Lost-wax casting is known in China and Mesopotamia (approximate date).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360771623#Art", "title": "200 BC", "revid": 1360771623, "section": "Events › By topic › Art"}}, {"year": 440, "year_label": "440 CE", "section": "Economy & Finance", "date": null, "text": "Northern and Southern dynasties: Northern China is unified by the Northern Wei dynasty. The South is still under the control of the Song (or Liu Song) dynasty.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364748079#Asia", "title": "440", "revid": 1364748079, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}, {"year": 660, "year_label": "660 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": null, "text": "Emperor Gao Zong suffers from an illness (possibly slow-poisoning). His wife Wu Zetian starts to rule the Chinese Empire.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1359584981#Korea", "title": "660", "revid": 1359584981, "section": "Events › By place › Korea"}}, {"year": 683, "year_label": "683 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "December 27", "text": "December 27 – Emperor Gaozong dies at Luoyang, age 55, after a 34-year reign in which he expanded the Chinese Empire by acquiring Korea as a vassal state.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367313750#Asia", "title": "683", "revid": 1367313750, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}, {"year": 689, "year_label": "689 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "September 10", "text": "September 10 – Guo Zhengyi, official of the Chinese Tang dynasty", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1350231931#Deaths", "title": "689", "revid": 1350231931, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 698, "year_label": "698 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "July 22", "text": "July 22 – Wu Chengsi, nephew of Chinese sovereign Wu Zetian", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340806584#Deaths", "title": "698", "revid": 1340806584, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 710, "year_label": "710 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "September 10", "text": "September 10 – Li Chongfu, imperial prince of the Chinese Tang dynasty (b. c. 680)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340807117#Deaths", "title": "710", "revid": 1340807117, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 731, "year_label": "731 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "December 22", "text": "December 22 – Yuan Qianyao, official of the Chinese Tang dynasty", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1358697487#Deaths", "title": "731", "revid": 1358697487, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 845, "year_label": "845 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Great Anti-Buddhist Persecution: Emperor Wu Zong begins the persecution of Buddhists and other foreign religions in China, such as Zoroastrianism, Nestorian Christianity and Manichaeism. More than 4,600 monasteries, 40,000 temples and numerous shrines are destroyed. More than 260,000 Buddhist monks and nuns are forced to return to secular life.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1342044538#Asia", "title": "845", "revid": 1342044538, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}]}