1645 in China

none July 2018 1645 Events from the year 1645 in China. Incumbents Qing dynasty - Shunzhi Emperor Co-regent: Dorgon Co-regent: Jirgalang Southern Ming - Hongguang Emperor, Longwu Emperor Shun dynasty - Li Zicheng Xi dynasty - Zhang Xianzhong Events Transition from Ming to Qing From newly captured Xi'an, in early April 1645 the Qing mounted a campaign against the rich commercial and agricultural region of Jiangnan south of the lower Yangtze River May 20–30 - Yangzhou massacre, one of the most destructive massacres in historyStruve Lynn A. Voices from the Ming-Qing cataclysm : China in tigers' jaws 1998 Yale University Press 978-0300075533 June, Dorgon eventually decreed that all official documents should refer to him as "Imperial Uncle Prince Regent" (Huang shufu shezheng wang 皇叔父攝政王), which left him one step short of claiming the throne for himself.Wakeman 1985 313 Sichuan massacre Regarding the Chinese Rites controversy, Rome's Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith sided with the Dominicans over the Jesuit in 1645 by condemning the Chinese rites based on their brief, rendering them incompatible with Roman Catholic faith Li Zicheng fled to Xi'an in Shaanxi. It is not exactly known how Li died and there are multiple accounts of his death which vary and some are exaggerated by folklore. Across multiple sources, the year of his death is said to be in 1645. One account states that in the summer of 1645 Li went to raid a village in search of sustenance with his remaining followers and was killed by soldiers guarding the village. Deaths Shi Kefa, Ming dynasty official and calligrapher, killed in the defense of Yangzhou Li Zicheng References Citations Bibliography Wakeman Frederic Frederic Wakeman The Great Enterprise: The Manchu Reconstruction of Imperial Order in Seventeenth-Century China 1985 Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London University of California Press https://books.google.com/books?id=Hcv6AAAACAAJ 978-0-520-04804-1. In two volumes. 1645 Category:1640s in China Category:1645 in Asia