{"slug": "northern-wei", "label": "Northern Wei", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Wei", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q875305", "qid": "Q875305", "description": "first dynasty of Northern dynasties during the Northern and Southern Dynasties period (386–535)", "entries": 72, "years": 56, "span": [371, 556], "span_label": ["371 CE", "556 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Deaths", "count": 30}, {"title": "Births", "count": 20}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 10}, {"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 3}, {"title": "Economy & Finance", "count": 2}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 2}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 2}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 1}, {"title": "Technology & Infrastructure", "count": 1}, {"title": "Health & Medicine", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "emperor-xiaowen-of-northern-wei", "label": "Emperor Xiaowen of Northern Wei", "shared": 6}, {"slug": "xianbei", "label": "Xianbei", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "buddhism", "label": "Buddhism", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "liang-dynasty", "label": "Liang dynasty", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "china", "label": "China", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "western-wei", "label": "Western Wei", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "bhikkhu", "label": "Bhikkhu", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "confucianism", "label": "Confucianism", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "monastery", "label": "Monastery", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "monasticism", "label": "Monasticism", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "shanxi", "label": "Shanxi", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "later-yan", "label": "Later Yan", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 371, "year_label": "371 CE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Dao Wu Di, Chinese emperor of Northern Wei (d. 409)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1283531136#Births", "title": "371", "revid": 1283531136, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 390, "year_label": "390 CE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Gao Yun, duke of the Xianbei state Northern Wei (d. 487)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1355430318#Births", "title": "390", "revid": 1355430318, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 391, "year_label": "391 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "A Rouran chief named Heduohan (曷多汗) is defeated and killed in battle against the Tuoba Northern Wei Dynasty. Surviving Rouran move west towards the Gaoche, led by Heduohan's brother and successor, Shelun.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1327980191#Asia", "title": "391", "revid": 1327980191, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}, {"year": 391, "year_label": "391 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Heduohan, chief of the Rouran tribes (killed in battle against the Northern Wei)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1327980191#Deaths", "title": "391", "revid": 1327980191, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 392, "year_label": "392 CE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Ming Yuan Di, emperor of the Xianbei state Northern Wei (d. 423)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1331511439#Births", "title": "392", "revid": 1331511439, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 395, "year_label": "395 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "December 8", "text": "December 8 – Later Yan is defeated by its former vassal Northern Wei at the Battle of Canhe Slope, during the Southern and Northern Dynasties period of China.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1334185587#Asia", "title": "395", "revid": 1334185587, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}, {"year": 403, "year_label": "403 CE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Yuan He, official of the Northern Wei Dynasty (d. 479)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367641291#Births", "title": "403", "revid": 1367641291, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 408, "year_label": "408 CE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Tai Wu Di, emperor of the Northern Wei Dynasty (d. 452)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367644906#Births", "title": "408", "revid": 1367644906, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 409, "year_label": "409 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Mingyuan, age 17, succeeds Daowu as emperor of the Chinese Northern Wei (one of the Northern dynasties).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367641120#Asia", "title": "409", "revid": 1367641120, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}, {"year": 409, "year_label": "409 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Daowu, emperor of the Northern Wei (b. 371)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367641120#Deaths", "title": "409", "revid": 1367641120, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 423, "year_label": "423 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "December 23", "text": "December 23 – Ming Yuan Di, ruler of the Xianbei state Northern Wei (b. 392)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364741573#Deaths", "title": "423", "revid": 1364741573, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 428, "year_label": "428 CE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Tuoba Huang, prince of the Xianbei state Northern Wei (d. 451)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1321157185#Births", "title": "428", "revid": 1321157185, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 439, "year_label": "439 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Northern Wei empire annexes Northern Liang and unifies Northern China, concluding the Sixteen Kingdoms era.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1307025237#Asia", "title": "439", "revid": 1307025237, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}, {"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": 442, "year_label": "442 CE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Feng, Chinese empress and regent of the Northern Wei dynasty (d. 490)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1333113526#Births", "title": "AD 442", "revid": 1333113526, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 446, "year_label": "446 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": null, "text": "Three Disasters of Wu: The Northern Wei dynasty begins persecuting Buddhists, having heretofore encouraged them. The drain of manpower and tax money to temples and monasteries has threatened the secular government, and the reaction is fierce: monks and nuns are murdered, temples and icons destroyed. All men under age 50 are prohibited from joining any monastic order in a program that will continue until 450, helping the Confucianist philosophy of the Han dynasty to gain dominance over Buddhism.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364739578#China", "title": "446", "revid": 1364739578, "section": "Events › By place › China"}}, {"year": 450, "year_label": "450 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Cui Hao, prime minister of Northern Wei", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1334307596#Deaths", "title": "450", "revid": 1334307596, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 451, "year_label": "451 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "July 29", "text": "July 29 – Tuoba Huang, prince of Northern Wei (b. 428)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361438720#Deaths", "title": "451", "revid": 1361438720, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 452, "year_label": "452 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Nan'an Yinwang succeeds his father Emperor Taiwu of Northern Wei, after he is assassinated by the eunuch Zong Ai. Later this year, Yinwang is murdered as well, and Ai is overthrown by a group of high officials. Wencheng Di, age 12, becomes the new emperor of Northern Wei.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1342662685#China", "title": "452", "revid": 1342662685, "section": "Events › By place › China"}}, {"year": 452, "year_label": "452 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "March 11", "text": "March 11 – Tai Wu Di, emperor of Northern Wei (b. 408)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1342662685#Deaths", "title": "452", "revid": 1342662685, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 453, "year_label": "453 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Helian, empress of Northern Wei", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1348812409#Deaths", "title": "453", "revid": 1348812409, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 454, "year_label": "454 CE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Xian Wen Di, Chinese emperor of Northern Wei (d. 476)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364747737#Births", "title": "454", "revid": 1364747737, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 462, "year_label": "462 CE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Yu Zhong, official and regent of Northern Wei (d. 518)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1284520427#Births", "title": "462", "revid": 1284520427, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 465, "year_label": "465 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Buliugu Li, official of the Northern Wei dynasty", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364739674#Deaths", "title": "465", "revid": 1364739674, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 466, "year_label": "466 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Yifu Hun, high official of Northern Wei", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364739705#Deaths", "title": "466", "revid": 1364739705, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 471, "year_label": "471 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Northern Wei ruler Xianwen officially goes into retirement. His son, Xiao Wen Di, aged 4, becomes the new emperor, initially under the regency of Emperor Xianwen's stepmother Empress Dowager Feng.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365043260#Asia", "title": "471", "revid": 1365043260, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}, {"year": 476, "year_label": "476 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": null, "text": "Xian Wen Di, Retired Emperor of Northern Wei, is murdered by Empress Feng. She assumes regency over the young Xiao Wen Di.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1355222972#China", "title": "476", "revid": 1355222972, "section": "Events › By place › China"}}, {"year": 476, "year_label": "476 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Xian Wen Di, Chinese Emperor of Northern Wei (b. 454)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1355222972#Deaths", "title": "476", "revid": 1355222972, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 479, "year_label": "479 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Yuan He, high official of Northern Wei (b. 403)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360119770#Deaths", "title": "479", "revid": 1360119770, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 483, "year_label": "483 CE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Xuan Wu Di, emperor of Northern Wei (d. 515)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340789371#Births", "title": "483", "revid": 1340789371, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 487, "year_label": "487 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Gao Yun, duke of Northern Wei (b. 390)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340789359#Deaths", "title": "487", "revid": 1340789359, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 488, "year_label": "488 CE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Yu, empress of Northern Wei (d. 507)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340789358#Births", "title": "488", "revid": 1340789358, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 490, "year_label": "490 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Empress Feng of the Chinese Northern Wei Dynasty dies. She is buried with magnificent honors, in the Wenming Tomb.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364755224#Asia", "title": "490", "revid": 1364755224, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}, {"year": 490, "year_label": "490 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Feng, Chinese empress and regent of Northern Wei (b. 442)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364755224#Deaths", "title": "490", "revid": 1364755224, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 493, "year_label": "493 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "Emperor Xiao Wen Di starts adopting a sinicization policy as well as various reforms. He marries Feng Qing, who becomes empress of the Northern Wei Dynasty.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340790263#China", "title": "493", "revid": 1340790263, "section": "Events › By place › China"}}, {"year": 493, "year_label": "493 CE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Erzhu Rong, general of Northern Wei (d. 530)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340790263#Births", "title": "493", "revid": 1340790263, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 494, "year_label": "494 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Emperor Xiao Wen Di moves the capital of Northern Wei from Datong to Luoyang. He makes Chinese the official language of his court, and orders his nobility to adopt Chinese names.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340790268#China", "title": "494", "revid": 1340790268, "section": "Events › By place › China"}}, {"year": 495, "year_label": "495 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Emperor Xiao Wen Di of Northern Wei builds the Shaolin Monastery in Henan for the monk Batuo (for alternate founding date see 477 or 497).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364907640#China", "title": "495", "revid": 1364907640, "section": "Events › By place › China"}}, {"year": 495, "year_label": "495 CE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Husi Chun, general of Northern Wei (d. 537)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364907640#Births", "title": "495", "revid": 1364907640, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 496, "year_label": "496 CE", "section": "Economy & Finance", "date": null, "text": "Emperor Xiao Wen Di of Northern Wei starts the Sinicization process, by changing his clan name to the Han Chinese surname Yuan.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364740340#Asia", "title": "496", "revid": 1364740340, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}, {"year": 496, "year_label": "496 CE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Erzhu Tianguang, general of Northern Wei (d. 532)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364740340#Births", "title": "496", "revid": 1364740340, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 497, "year_label": "497 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Crown Prince Yuan Xun of Northern Wei (b. 483)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364907664#Deaths", "title": "497", "revid": 1364907664, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 498, "year_label": "498 CE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Jie Min Di, emperor of Northern Wei (d. 532)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365508717#Births", "title": "498", "revid": 1365508717, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 499, "year_label": "499 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "Crown prince Xuan Wu Di, age 16, succeeds his father Xiaowen and becomes emperor of Northern Wei. He appoints his uncle Yuan Xie provincial governor, who serves temporarily as regent to form a new government.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367503464#China", "title": "499", "revid": 1367503464, "section": "Events › By place › China"}}, {"year": 499, "year_label": "499 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Feng Run, Chinese empress of Northern Wei", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367503464#Deaths", "title": "499", "revid": 1367503464, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 500, "year_label": "500 CE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Erzhu Shilong, high-official of Northern Wei (d. 532)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361340160#Births", "title": "AD 500", "revid": 1361340160, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 507, "year_label": "507 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Battle of Zhongli: army of Liang dynasty led by Wei Rui decisively defeated army of Northern Wei", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364907722#Asia", "title": "507", "revid": 1364907722, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}, {"year": 507, "year_label": "507 CE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Xiao Zhuang Di, emperor of Northern Wei (d. 531)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364907722#Births", "title": "507", "revid": 1364907722, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 508, "year_label": "508 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Yuan Xie, prince of the Northern Wei Dynasty", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364907761#Deaths", "title": "508", "revid": 1364907761, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 510, "year_label": "510 CE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Xiao Ming Di, emperor of Northern Wei (d. 528)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364739939#Births", "title": "510", "revid": 1364739939, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 513, "year_label": "513 CE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "An Ding Wang, emperor of Northern Wei (d. 532)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364908252#Births", "title": "513", "revid": 1364908252, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 515, "year_label": "515 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Gao Zhao, high official of Northern Wei", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364754462#Deaths", "title": "515", "revid": 1364754462, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 518, "year_label": "518 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "November 14", "text": "November 14 – Gao, Chinese empress dowager of Northern Wei (murdered)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364754317#Deaths", "title": "518", "revid": 1364754317, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 523, "year_label": "523 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": null, "text": "The Songyue Pagoda is completed during the Northern Wei era; the circular-based tower is still 40 m (131 ft) in height.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340792003#Asia", "title": "523", "revid": 1340792003, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}, {"year": 525, "year_label": "525 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Yuan Cha, high official of Northern Wei (approximate date)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340792024#Deaths", "title": "525", "revid": 1340792024, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 526, "year_label": "526 CE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Wang Lin, general of the Liang Dynasty and Northern Wei (d. 573)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364754141#Births", "title": "526", "revid": 1364754141, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 528, "year_label": "528 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": "March 31", "text": "March 31 – Emperor Xiaoming of Northern Wei, emperor of Northern Wei, is poisoned by order of his mother, the regent Empress Dowager Hu.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340793729#Asia", "title": "528", "revid": 1340793729, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}, {"year": 528, "year_label": "528 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "May 17", "text": "May 17 – Empress Dowager Hu, regent of Northern Wei, having resorted to an old monarchist tool and executed lovers who have displeased her, is drowned in the Yellow River along with the nominal emperor, the baby Yuan Zhao, and prince Yuan Yong by order of General Erzhu Rong, who places 21-year-old Yuan Ziyou on the throne as Emperor Xiaozhuang of Northern Wei.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340793729#Asia", "title": "528", "revid": 1340793729, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}, {"year": 528, "year_label": "528 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "May 17", "text": "May 17 – Empress Dowager Hu of Northern Wei", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340793729#Deaths", "title": "528", "revid": 1340793729, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 529, "year_label": "529 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Yuan Hao, imperial prince of Northern Wei", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1351343002#Deaths", "title": "529", "revid": 1351343002, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 530, "year_label": "530 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": null, "text": "Emperor Xiao Zhuang Di is arrested and imprisoned in a Buddhist temple at Jinyang (Shanxi). 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