1669 in China
Events from the year 1669 in China.
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Incumbents
- Kangxi Emperor (8th year)
- Regents — Oboi
Viceroys
- Viceroy of Zhili, Shandong and Henan — Bai Bingzhen (– July 28)[note 1]
- Viceroy of Zhejiang — Liu Zhaoqi
- Viceroy of Fujian — Zhang Chaolin
- Viceroy of Chuan-Hu — Liu Zhaoqi
- Viceroy of Shan-Shaan — Moluo
- Viceroy of Liangguang — Zhou Youde, Jin Guangzu
- Viceroy of Yun-Gui — Gan Wenkun
- Viceroy of Liangjiang — Maleji
- post abolished until 1724
Events
- Kangxi deposes his regent Oboi with help of his grandmother Grand Dowager Empress Xiaozhuang, who had raised him,[1] and has him executed. He takes full control of the empire from this point onward.
- a Chinese pharmaceutical company Tong Ren Tang (TRT; Chinese: 同仁堂) is founded in Beijing, which is now the largest producer of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM).[2]
- In 1669, Lanbu (1642–1679), the third holder of the Prince Jingjin title, was demoted by the Kangxi Emperor from a qinwang (first-rank prince) to a feng'en zhenguo gong[3]
- Chahar ruler Abunai showed disaffection with Manchu Qing rule, and is placed under house arrested in 1669 in Shenyang and the Kangxi Emperor gave his title to his son Borni[4]
- poet, essayist, and art historian Zhou Lianggong holds a party at his Pavilion for Viewing Paintings in Nanjing.[5] Later he is again accused of corruption
- Sino-Russian border conflicts
Births
- Jiang Tingxi (simplified Chinese: 蒋廷锡; traditional Chinese: 蔣廷錫; pinyin: Jiǎng Tíngxí; Wade–Giles: Chiang T'ing-hsi, 1669–1732[6]), courtesy name Yangsun (杨孙), was a Chinese painter, and an editor of the encyclopedia Complete Classics Collection of Ancient China.
Deaths
- Yang Guangxian (Chinese: 楊光先, Xiao'erjing: ﻳْﺎ ﻗُﻮْا ﺷِﯿًﺎ) (1597–1669) a Chinese Muslim Confucian writer and astronomer who was the head of the Bureau of Astronomy (欽天監) from 1665 to 1669.
References
- Peterson, Bennet. Notable Women of China. p. 328.
- "Certification of China Timed-honored Brand GuangYuYuan". zhlzh.mofcom.gov.cn. China's Ministry of Commerce. Retrieved 27 September 2017.
- Draft History of Qing
- The Cambridge History of China: Volume 9, The Ch'ing Dynasty to 1800
- "A Splendid Party: Zhou Lianggong (1612–1672) and His Friends in Literary Nanjing, 1669". 24 January 2017.
- Barnhart: Page 379.
- Zhao, Erxun (1928). Draft History of Qing (Qing Shi Gao) (in Chinese).
- Spence, Jonathan D. (2002), "The K'ang-hsi Reign", in Peterson, Willard J. (ed.), Cambridge History of China, Vol. 9, Part 1: The Ch'ing Dynasty to 1800, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 120–182, ISBN 0521243343.
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