History of China

account of past events in the Chinese civilisation

12 dated entries naming History of China, drawn from 12 separate years between 720 BCE and 845 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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8th century BC

720 BCE720 BC—Birth of Guan Zhong, political adviser of Qi in eastern ancient China.source

4th century BC

386 BCEThe Chinese city of Handan is founded by the State of Zhao.source
356 BCEWith 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.source

2nd century BC

200 BCELost-wax casting is known in China and Mesopotamia (approximate date).source

5th century

440Northern 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.source

7th century

660Emperor Gao Zong suffers from an illness (possibly slow-poisoning). His wife Wu Zetian starts to rule the Chinese Empire.source
683December 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.source
689September 10 – Guo Zhengyi, official of the Chinese Tang dynastysource
698July 22 – Wu Chengsi, nephew of Chinese sovereign Wu Zetiansource

8th century

710September 10 – Li Chongfu, imperial prince of the Chinese Tang dynasty (b. c. 680)source
731December 22 – Yuan Qianyao, official of the Chinese Tang dynastysource

9th century

845Great 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.source