{"slug": "shunzhi-emperor", "label": "Shunzhi Emperor", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shunzhi_Emperor", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q310453", "qid": "Q310453", "description": "Qing Dynasty emperor of China (1638–1661)", "entries": 13, "years": 10, "span": [1638, 1686], "span_label": ["1638 CE", "1686 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Deaths", "count": 5}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 2}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 2}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 1}, {"title": "Health & Medicine", "count": 1}, {"title": "Economy & Finance", "count": 1}], "also_known_as": [], "related": [{"slug": "qing-dynasty", "label": "Qing dynasty", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "kangxi-emperor", "label": "Kangxi Emperor", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "ming-dynasty", "label": "Ming dynasty", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "manchu-people", "label": "Manchu people", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "shandong", "label": "Shandong", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "chongzhen-emperor", "label": "Chongzhen Emperor", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "beijing", "label": "Beijing", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "alexis-of-russia", "label": "Alexis of Russia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "forbidden-city", "label": "Forbidden City", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1638, "year_label": "1638 CE", "section": "Births", "date": "March 15", "text": "March 15 – Shunzhi Emperor of China (d. 1661)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1352457236#January–March", "title": "1638", "revid": 1352457236, "section": "Births › January–March"}}, {"year": 1642, "year_label": "1642 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "November 27", "text": "November 27 – Hong Taiji (known in the West as Abatai) begins a 60-day march of Manchu warriors southwards from the Great Wall through Ming Chinese provinces of Zhili and Shandong, before returning northward on January 27. (Two years later Beijing falls to rebels, the Chongzhen Emperor commits suicide, and the Shunzhi Emperor becomes the first Qing Emperor to rule over China proper.)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1350256188#October–December", "title": "1642", "revid": 1350256188, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1643, "year_label": "1643 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "October 8", "text": "October 8 – The Shunzhi Emperor of China is crowned at five years old, 17 days after the death of his father and the decision of the Deliberative Council of Princes and Ministers.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340617365#October–December", "title": "1643", "revid": 1340617365, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1644, "year_label": "1644 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "November 8", "text": "November 8 – The Shunzhi Emperor, the second emperor of the Qing dynasty, is enthroned in Beijing after the collapse of the Ming dynasty as the first Qing emperor to rule over China proper.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369560996#October–December", "title": "1644", "revid": 1369560996, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1651, "year_label": "1651 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "March 15", "text": "March 15 – Prince Aisin Gioro Fulin attains the age of 13 and becomes the Shunzhi Emperor of China, which had been governed by a regency since the death of his father Hong Taiji in 1643.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365975166#January–March", "title": "1651", "revid": 1365975166, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1651, "year_label": "1651 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": "April 7", "text": "April 7 – Shunzhi, Emperor of China, announces in an imperial edict that he will purge corruption from government.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365975166#April–June", "title": "1651", "revid": 1365975166, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1653, "year_label": "1653 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "October 25", "text": "October 25 – Erdeni Bumba, the wife and chief consort of China's Shunzhi Emperor, is demoted from being the empress to being a concubine.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365981775#October–December", "title": "1653", "revid": 1365981775, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1656, "year_label": "1656 CE", "section": "Economy & Finance", "date": "March 3", "text": "March 3 – Fyodor Baykov, the Russian Empire's first envoy to China, is admitted to the Forbidden City within Beijing, after being sent by Tsar Alexis to negotiate a trade agreement with the Emperor Shunzi.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372048661#January–March", "title": "1656", "revid": 1372048661, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1661, "year_label": "1661 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Shunzhi Emperor dies, probably of smallpox. The seven-year-old Kangxi Emperor ascends the throne and the Four Regents, previously nominated in Shunzhi's will, begin rule as regents.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363645417#Events", "title": "1661 in China", "revid": 1363645417, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1661, "year_label": "1661 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "February 5", "text": "February 5 – Shunzhi Emperor of China (b. 1638)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365986603#Deaths", "title": "1661", "revid": 1365986603, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 1661, "year_label": "1661 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "February 5", "text": "February 5 – The Shunzhi Emperor of the Chinese Qing Dynasty dies, and is succeeded by his 7-year-old son the Kangxi Emperor.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365986603#January–March", "title": "1661", "revid": 1365986603, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1663, "year_label": "1663 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "March 20", "text": "March 20 — Empress Xiaokangzhang, (孝康章皇后; 1638 – 1663) a consort of the Shunzhi Emperor", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363645531#Deaths", "title": "1663 in China", "revid": 1363645531, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 1686, "year_label": "1686 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Wei Yijie (Chinese: 魏裔介; August 19, 1616 – April 27, 1686) was a prominent Han Chinese scholar and official serving in the early Qing Dynasty, during the rules of the Shunzhi Emperor, Oboi, and the Kangxi Emperor and was known for his focus and advocacy of the reformation the Examination system.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1243748998#Deaths", "title": "1686 in China", "revid": 1243748998, "section": "Deaths"}}]}