1646 in China

none September 2018 July 2018 1646 Events from the year 1646 in China. Incumbents Qing dynasty - Shunzhi Emperor Co-regent: Dorgon Co-regent: Jirgalang Southern Ming pretender - Longwu Emperor (Zhu Yujian) Xi dynasty - Zhang Xianzhong Events Transition from Ming to Qing February 1646 — Qing armies seized land west of the Qiantang River from the Lu regime and defeated a ragtag force representing the Longwu Emperor in northeastern Jiangxi.Struve 1988 670, 673 May — Qing forces besiege Ganzhou, the last Ming bastion in Jiangxi.Struve 1988 674 July, a new Southern Campaign led by Prince Bolo sent Prince Lu's Zhejiang regime into disarray and proceeded to attack the Longwu regime in Fujian.Struve 1988 675 late September 1646 the Longwu court left their Fujian base, but the Qing army caught up with them.Struve 1988 675–676 6 October — Longwu and his empress were summarily executed in Tingzhou (western Fujian) on.Struve 1988 676 17 October — Fuzhou falls to the Qing, Zheng Zhilong surrendered to the Qing and his son Koxinga fled to the island of Taiwan with his fleet.Struve 1988 676 11 December 1646 — The Longwu Emperor's younger brother Zhu Yuyue, takes the reign title Shaowu (紹武) who had fled Fuzhou by sea, soon founded another Ming regime in Guangzhou, the capital of Guangdong provinceWakeman 1985 737 Short of official costumes, the court had to purchase robes from local theater troops.Wakeman 1985 737 24 December — Prince of Gui Zhu Youlang established the Yongli (永曆) regime in the same vicinity.Wakeman 1985 737 Sichuan massacre Deaths Longwu Emperor of the Southern Ming References Struve Lynn 1988 The Southern Ming https://books.google.com/books?id=tyhT9SZRLS8C&pg=PA641 Cambridge History of China, Volume 7, The Ming Dynasty, 1368–1644 Frederic W. Mote Denis Twitchett John King Fairbank 641–725 Cambridge, England Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-24332-2 Wakeman Frederic Jr. Frederic Wakeman The Great Enterprise: The Manchu Reconstruction of Imperial Order in Seventeenth-Century China 1985 University of California Press Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA 978-0-520-04804-1. 1646 Category:1640s in China Category:1646 by country Category:1646 in Asia Category:Years of the 17th century in China