{"slug": "yongle-emperor", "label": "Yongle Emperor", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yongle_Emperor", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9965", "qid": "Q9965", "description": "emperor of Ming dynasty China from 1402 to 1424", "entries": 22, "years": 18, "span": [1360, 1429], "span_label": ["1360 CE", "1429 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 6}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 4}, {"title": "Technology & Infrastructure", "count": 4}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 4}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 2}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "ming-dynasty", "label": "Ming dynasty", "shared": 12}, {"slug": "nanjing", "label": "Nanjing", "shared": 8}, {"slug": "beijing", "label": "Beijing", "shared": 5}, {"slug": "china", "label": "China", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "zheng-he", "label": "Zheng He", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "yangtze-river", "label": "Yangtze River", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "yuan-dynasty", "label": "Yuan dynasty", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "shandong", "label": "Shandong", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "august", "label": "August", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "grand-canal-china", "label": "Grand Canal (China)", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "inner-mongolia", "label": "Inner Mongolia", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1360, "year_label": "1360 CE", "section": "Births", "date": "May 2", "text": "May 2 – Yongle Emperor of China (d. 1424)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1292555105#Births", "title": "1360", "revid": 1292555105, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 1402, "year_label": "1402 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "July 17", "text": "July 17 – The Ming dynasty prince Zhu Di of Yan is formally crowned as the Emperor Cheng Zu of Ming at Nanjing, marking the end of the Jingnan campaign.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371594109#July–September", "title": "1402", "revid": 1371594109, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1403, "year_label": "1403 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "In China, the Emperor Cheng Zu moves the capital from Nanjing to Beijing, commissions the Yongle Encyclopedia, one of the world's earliest and largest known general encyclopedias, and orders his coastal provinces to build a vast fleet of ships, with construction centered at Longjiang near Nanjing; the inland provinces are to provide wood and float it down the Yangtze River.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371593649#Date_unknown", "title": "1403", "revid": 1371593649, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1403, "year_label": "1403 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "January 23", "text": "January 23 – The Yongle Era in China begins with the first day of the Chinese New Year, six months after King Zhu Di of the Yan State arrived at Nanjing, deposed the southern Chinese Emperor Zhu Yun Wen, and proclaimed himself as the Emperor Cheng Zu.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371593649#January–March", "title": "1403", "revid": 1371593649, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1404, "year_label": "1404 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": "March 1", "text": "March 1 – Under the Emperor Cheng Zu, China continues to build its fleet, ordering the construction of 50 new seagoing ships from the Capital Guards in Nanjing.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361962096#January–March", "title": "1404", "revid": 1361962096, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1406, "year_label": "1406 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "May 11", "text": "May 11 – Ming conquest of Đại Ngu: China's Emperor Chengzu sends two battalions to invade the Kingdom of Dai Ngu (now Vietnam) under the command of the Duke Zhu Neng.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1357536622#April–June", "title": "1406", "revid": 1357536622, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1408, "year_label": "1408 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "August 20", "text": "August 20 – Abdul Majid Hassan, the Sultan of Brunei, sets off on a voyage to China at the invitation of the Emperor Cheng Zu and arrives in the capital, Nanjing, by September, becoming the first foreign monarch to make a peaceful visit to the Chinese Empire. While visiting, the Sultan becomes ill and dies on October 19.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360565942#July–December", "title": "1408", "revid": 1360565942, "section": "Events › July–December"}}, {"year": 1410, "year_label": "1410 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "May 19", "text": "May 19 – During his campaign against the Eastern Mongols, China's Emperor Cheng Zu stops with his troops at Minluanshu and orders the carving of an inscription on rocks at the north bank of the Kerulen river, declaring \"In the eighth year of the Yongle geng yin, fourth month ding you, sixteenth day ren zi, the Emperor of the Great Ming passed here with six armies during the punitive expedition against the barbarian robbers.\"", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1337551949#April–June", "title": "1410", "revid": 1337551949, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1411, "year_label": "1411 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": null, "text": "Under the reign of Emperor Cheng Zu of Ming China, work begins to reinstate the ancient Grand Canal of China, which fell into disuse and dilapidation during the previous Yuan dynasty. Between 1411 and 1415, a total of 165,000 laborers dredge the canal bed in Shandong, build new channels, embankments, and canal locks. Four large reservoirs in Shandong are also dug, in order to regulate water levels, instead of resorting to pumping water from local tables. A large dam is also constructed, to divert water from the Wen River southwest into the Grand Canal.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1354941251#Date_unknown", "title": "1411", "revid": 1354941251, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1411, "year_label": "1411 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "July 6", "text": "July 6 – Ming dynasty Chinese Admiral Zheng He returns to Nanjing after his third voyage, and presents the ruler Vira Alakesvara, captured during the Ming–Kotte War, to China's Emperor Cheng Zu.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1354941251#July–September", "title": "1411", "revid": 1354941251, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1412, "year_label": "1412 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "December 18", "text": "December 18 – China's Emperor Cheng Zu orders the fourth of the Ming treasure voyages, to be led by Admiral Zheng He.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1357537157#October–December", "title": "1412", "revid": 1357537157, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1414, "year_label": "1414 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "April 6", "text": "April 6 – China's Emperor Cheng Zu departs from Beijing to lead a military campaign against the Oirat Mongols.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368828978#April–June", "title": "1414", "revid": 1368828978, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1415, "year_label": "1415 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": null, "text": "The Grand Canal of China is reinstated by this year after it had fallen out of use; restoration began in 1411, and was a response by the Emperor Cheng Zu of the Ming Dynasty to improve the grain shipment system of tribute traveling from south to north, towards his new capital at Beijing. With this action, the food supply crisis is solved by the end of the year.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371593286#Date_unknown", "title": "1415", "revid": 1371593286, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1416, "year_label": "1416 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "November 14", "text": "November 14 – China's Emperor Cheng Zu and his fleet return to Nanjing from his fourth expedition for treasure after having been away since 1413.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368829186#October–December", "title": "1416", "revid": 1368829186, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1419, "year_label": "1419 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "March 19", "text": "March 19 – (26 Muharram 822 AH) Sultan al-Malik al-Nāsir of Yemen presents a set of Yemeni gifts for the Chinese envoy to Aden to take back to China's Emperor Cheng Zu, after having received gifts from the Chinese in January.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1358545199#January–March", "title": "1419", "revid": 1358545199, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1420, "year_label": "1420 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "October 28", "text": "October 28 – Beijing (\"Northern Capital\") is officially designated the capital of Ming dynasty China by the Yongle Emperor, replacing Nanjing, during the same year that the Forbidden City, the seat of government, is completed and construction begins on the Temple of Heaven in the new capital city.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365937924#October–December", "title": "1420", "revid": 1365937924, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1423, "year_label": "1423 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "August", "text": "August – China's Emperor Cheng Zu launches his fourth campaign against the Northern Yuan.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365656788#July–September", "title": "1423", "revid": 1365656788, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1424, "year_label": "1424 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "April 1", "text": "April 1 – China's Emperor Zhu Di, angry over the refusal of the Mongolian vassal Arughtai to pay tribute, departs from Beijing with an army of almost one million troops on a campaign in Inner Mongolia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365656911#April–June", "title": "1424", "revid": 1365656911, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1424, "year_label": "1424 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "August 12", "text": "August 12 – China's Yongle era Emperor, Zhu Di, dies at the age of 64 while leading an expedition of almost one million soldiers in an attempt to capture the Mongol leader Arughtai. The Emperor suffers a fatal stroke at at Yumuchuan in what is now Inner Mongolia, while Arughtai has escaped.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365656911#July_–September", "title": "1424", "revid": 1365656911, "section": "Events › July –September"}}, {"year": 1424, "year_label": "1424 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "September 7", "text": "September 7 – Prince Zhu Gaochi of China becomes the Hongxi Emperor (Emperor Renzong) of the Ming dynasty, beginning the Hongxi era, after the August 12 death of his father, the Emperor Zhu Di.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365656911#July_–September", "title": "1424", "revid": 1365656911, "section": "Events › July –September"}}, {"year": 1425, "year_label": "1425 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "January 8", "text": "January 8 – The interment of Ming dynasty China's Yongle Emperor, who died on August 12, takes place at the Chang Mausoleum in Beijing's Ming tombs.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360580047#January_–_March", "title": "1425", "revid": 1360580047, "section": "Events › January – March"}}, {"year": 1429, "year_label": "1429 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": null, "text": "A series of seven customs offices and barriers are installed along the Grand Canal of China, during the reign of the Ming Dynasty's Yongle Emperor.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1351320610#Date_unknown", "title": "1429", "revid": 1351320610, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}]}