{"slug": "yunnan", "label": "Yunnan", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yunnan", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q43194", "qid": "Q43194", "description": "province of China", "entries": 17, "years": 17, "span": [-134, 1970], "span_label": ["135 BCE", "1970 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 8}, {"title": "Climate & Environment", "count": 3}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 2}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 2}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}, {"title": "Health & Medicine", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "thailand", "label": "Thailand", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "wu-sangui", "label": "Wu Sangui", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "ming-dynasty", "label": "Ming dynasty", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "myanmar", "label": "Myanmar", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "kublai-khan", "label": "Kublai Khan", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "qing-dynasty", "label": "Qing dynasty", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "kangxi-emperor", "label": "Kangxi Emperor", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "india", "label": "India", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "hongwu-emperor", "label": "Hongwu Emperor", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "vietnam", "label": "Vietnam", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "gansu", "label": "Gansu", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "mongke-khan", "label": "Möngke Khan", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": -134, "year_label": "135 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "A Han military campaign against the Dian Kingdom establishes a military commandery in the Yunnan region.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1288516858#China", "title": "135 BC", "revid": 1288516858, "section": "Events › By place › China"}}, {"year": -108, "year_label": "109 BCE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Han campaigns against Dian: Emperor Wu launches a new campaign against the Dian Kingdom and establishes the Yizhou commandery in Yunnan during the dynasty's expansion southward.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1325703810#Asia", "title": "109 BC", "revid": 1325703810, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}, {"year": 1253, "year_label": "1253 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Mongol forces under Kublai Khan conquer the Dali Kingdom (modern-day Yunnan). The population migrates to Siam (modern Thailand).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362664638#Asia", "title": "1253", "revid": 1362664638, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}, {"year": 1257, "year_label": "1257 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Spring – Mongol forces under Uriyangkhadai conduct a campaign against local Yi and Lolo tribes in Vietnam. He returns to Gansu and sends messengers to the court of Möngke Khan informing him that Yunnan is firmly under Mongolian control. Möngke Khan honors and rewards Uriyangkhadai for his military achievements.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1350011805#Mongol_Empire", "title": "1257", "revid": 1350011805, "section": "Events › By place › Mongol Empire"}}, {"year": 1277, "year_label": "1277 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Battle of Ngasaunggyan: A Burmese army (some 80,000 men) led by King Narathihapate (or Sithu IV) invades Mongol territory in Yunnan. The invasion is repelled by the Mongol forces, who counterattack, reaching as far south as the fortress city of Kaungsin (\"Gold Teeth\"), which guards the Bhamo Pass in northern Myanmar. Later, the Burmese Pagan Empire begins to disintegrate after several Mongol invasions under Kublai Khan.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362646784#Asia", "title": "1277", "revid": 1362646784, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}, {"year": 1381, "year_label": "1381 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "The Ming dynasty of China annexes the areas of the old Kingdom of Dali, in modern-day Yunnan and Guizhou provinces, inhabited by the Miao and Yao peoples. Hundreds of thousands of Chinese (including military colonists) will migrate there from the rest of China.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365430794#Date_not_known", "title": "1381", "revid": 1365430794, "section": "Events › Date not known"}}, {"year": 1382, "year_label": "1382 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "April 9", "text": "April 9 – Ming dyansty China, ruled by the Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang, completes the conquerst of Yunnan the remaining portion of China still occupied by the Yuan dyansty in what is now the Yunnan province. General Fu Youde leads 250,000 Ming Chinese troops overwhelming the smaller Yunnan force of Mongol and Chinese Muslim troops.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367364320#April–June", "title": "1382", "revid": 1367364320, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1405, "year_label": "1405 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "December 27", "text": "December 27 – The Imperial Chinese Army invades the Lan Na kingdom, covering an area now divided between Myanmar, Thailand and China's Yunnan province.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1337543539#October–December", "title": "1405", "revid": 1337543539, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1406, "year_label": "1406 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "November 19", "text": "November 19 – Chinese troops commanded by General Zhang Fu cross into Vietnam from Guanxi while those of Mu Sheng cross from Yunnan.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1357536622#October–December", "title": "1406", "revid": 1357536622, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1583, "year_label": "1583 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "April 9", "text": "April 9 – A Burmese Army force of 16,000 men, commanded by Thado Dhamma Yaza II of Prome and Nawrahta Minsaw of Lan Na to suppress the rebellious of the Shan States in the modern-day Yunnan province of China, is welcomed by King Nanda Bayin at the royal capital, Pegu, after a successful punitive expedition. The commanders bring with them the rebel chief from the Sanda state.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363312090#April–June", "title": "1583", "revid": 1363312090, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1673, "year_label": "1673 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "December 28", "text": "December 28 – In China, General Wu Sangui begins the Revolt of the Three Feudatories, a rebellion against the Qing dynasty by killing the Governor of the Yunnan province, Zhu Guozhi. Within 10 days, he leads troops on an expedition to take over the neighboring Guizhou province and by 1676 controls 11 of China's provinces.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365992268#October–December", "title": "1673", "revid": 1365992268, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1678, "year_label": "1678 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "March 23", "text": "March 23 – Revolt of the Three Feudatories in southern China: rebel general Wu Sangui, lord of the Yunnan fief, takes the imperial crown, names himself monarch of \"The Great Zhou\", based in the Hunan province, with Hengyang as his capital. He contracts dysentery over the summer and dies on October 2, ending the rebellion against the Kangxi Emperor.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368552109#January–March", "title": "1678", "revid": 1368552109, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1681, "year_label": "1681 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "December 7", "text": "December 7 – Wu Shifan, grandson of Chinese general Wu Sangui, commits suicide at Kunming in Yunnan province, ending the 8-year Revolt of the Three Feudatories against the Kangxi Emperor and the Qing dynasty in China.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361310073#October–December", "title": "1681", "revid": 1361310073, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1833, "year_label": "1833 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": "September 6", "text": "September 6 – At least 6,000 people are killed when an 8.0 magnitude earthquake shakes the Chinese province of Yunnan destroying buildings, homes and temples.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369983797#July–September", "title": "1833", "revid": 1369983797, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1855, "year_label": "1855 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": null, "text": "The third plague pandemic breaks out in Yunnan, China. This bubonic plague pandemic eventually spreads to all inhabited continents, and ultimately leads to more than 12 million deaths in India and China (estimated 15 million worldwide) making it one of the deadliest pandemics in history. The pandemic is considered active until 1960.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1358982600#Undated", "title": "1855", "revid": 1358982600, "section": "Events › Undated"}}, {"year": 1925, "year_label": "1925 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": "March 16", "text": "March 16 – At 22:42 local time a 7.0 earthquake shakes the Chinese province of Yunnan killing 5,000 people.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367485783#March", "title": "1925", "revid": 1367485783, "section": "Events › March"}}, {"year": 1970, "year_label": "1970 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": "January 5", "text": "January 5 – The 7.1 Tonghai earthquake shakes Tonghai County, Yunnan province, China, with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme). Between 10,000 and 14,621 are killed and 30,000 injured.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370420699#January", "title": "1970", "revid": 1370420699, "section": "Events › January"}}]}