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Emperor Guangwu of Han

emperor and founder of the Eastern Han Dynasty (5 BC - AD 57) (r. AD 25 - AD 57)

11 dated entries naming Emperor Guangwu of Han, drawn from 10 separate years between 5 BCE and 57 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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1st century BC

  • 5 BCEJanuary 15 – Guang Wu, Chinese emperor of the Han Dynasty (d. AD 57)source

1st century

  • 10The 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.source
  • 23July – 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.source
  • 25August 5 – The Han dynasty is restored in China as Liu Xiu proclaims himself Emperor Guangwu of Han, starting the Jianwu era (until AD 56).source
  • 26Xinlun is presented by author Huan Tan to Emperor Guangwu of Han with its final chapter (on zither music) still unfinished.source
  • 36December 25 – Wu Han commands the forces of Emperor Guang Wu of the Eastern Han to conquer the separatist Chengjia Empire, reuniting China.source
  • 40The Vietnamese Trưng Sisters rebel against the rule of the Chinese Emperor Guang Wu of Han.source
  • 41Emperor Guang Wu of the Han Dynasty deposes his wife, Guo Shengtong, as empress, and makes his consort Yin Lihua empress in her place.source
  • 48Emperor Guang Wu of Han, restores Chinese domination of Inner Mongolia. The Xiongnu are made confederates and guard the Northern border of the empire.source
  • 57Emperor 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.source
  • 57March 29 – Guang Wu, Chinese emperor (b. 5 BC)source

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