Later Zhao

northern Chinese dynasty of the Sixteen Kingdoms (319–351)

14 dated entries naming Later Zhao, drawn from 8 separate years between 295 CE and 351 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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3rd century

  • 295Shi Hu, Chinese emperor of Later Zhao (d. 349)source

4th century

  • 333Shi Hong succeeds his father Shi Le as Emperor of the Later Zhao Empire, in the Period of the Sixteen Kingdoms, but Shi Hong's third cousin Shi Hu holds the real power. Empress Dowager Liu (widow of Shi Le) fails to get rid of Shi Hu, and Shi Hu has her deposed and killed.source
  • 333Liu, Chinese empress of the Jie State (or Later Zhao)source
  • 335Emperor Shi Hu moves the capital of the Later Zhao state to Yecheng.source
  • 335Cheng, Chinese empress dowager of the Later Zhao statesource
  • 339Shi Shi, Chinese emperor of Later Zhao (d. 349)source
  • 340Kui An, Indian general and minister of Later Zhaosource
  • 349Shi Hu, emperor of the Jie state Later Zhao since 334, dies. The state plunges into turmoil with his sons Shi Shi, Shi Zun, Shi Jian and Shi Zhi plotting against each other and holding the emperorship in rapid succession, before ethnic Han Ran Min establishes the short-lived Ran Wei dynasty in 350, bringing the Later Zhao dynasty to an end in 351 before it is itself conquered and divided by the Former Yan and Former Qin dynasties in 351.source
  • 349Shi Hu, emperor of the Jie state Later Zhao (b. 295)source
  • 350The Ran Wei-Later Zhao war breaks out in North China. Ethnic Han ruler Ran Min had used the infighting between the brothers who reigned in quick succession as emperors of the Jie state of the Later Zhao to assume power, establish the Ran Wei dynasty, have an alleged 200,000 non-Han subjects (mostly Jie and Xiongnu) massacred and end the Later Zhao dynasty. This situation will soon be exploited by the neighbouring state of Former Yan which expands from the northeast towards the Yellow River.source
  • 350Shi Jian, emperor of the Jie state Later Zhao.source
  • 351Fú Jiàn, an ethnic Di, declares himself "Heavenly Prince" (Tian Wang) during the collapse of Later Zhao, and establishes Former Qin.source
  • 351Emperor Shi Zhi, last ruler of the Later Zhao dynasty, is killed by Ran Min's forces, an action that sets the stage for Wei's victory in the Ran Wei–Later Zhao war.source
  • 351Shi Zhi, Chinese prince and emperor of Later Zhaosource

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