1664 in China
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Events from the year 1664 in China. Also known as 癸卯年 (Water Rabbit) 4360 or 4300 to 甲辰年 (Wood Dragon) 4361 or 4301.
Incumbents
[edit]- Kangxi Emperor (3rd year)
Viceroys
[edit]- Viceroy of Zhili — Miao Cheng
- Viceroy of Min-Zhe — Zhao Tingchen
- Viceroy of Huguang — Zhang Changgeng
- Viceroy of Shaanxi — Bai Rumei
- Viceroy of Guangdong — Li Qifeng
- Viceroy of Yun-Gui — Zhao Tingchen
- Viceroy of Sichuan — Li Guoying
- Viceroy of Jiangnan — Lang Tingzuo
Events
[edit]- January — Dutch fleets return to Batavia after Qing-Dutch alliance fails[1]
- Spring — Zheng Jing withdraws the last Zheng family forces on the mainland from Tongshan (桐山街道), Fujian
- After failing talk the Zheng family into peacefully surrendering, Dutch Captain Herman de Bitter defeats a fleet at Penghu in August and temporarily occupies Keelung harbor
- A planned Qing invasion of the Kingdom of Tungning led by Admiral Shi Lang and supported by the Dutch fleet in Taiwan fails to occur[2][3]
- Ming loyalist Zheng Huangyan (張煌言) is executed in Hangzhou
- An imperial edict imposes another ban on footbinding[4]
- Changsha becomes the capital of Hunan province, having been upgraded from a superior prefecture[5]
- The British East India Company begins trade in China[6]
- Jesuit missionary and astronomer Adam Schall von Bell is tried due to accusations by Yang Guangxian[7]
- Sino-Russian border conflicts
Births
[edit]- France — François Xavier d'Entrecolles (1664 – 1741); Chinese name: 殷弘绪, Yin Hongxu) a French Jesuit priest, who learned the Chinese technique of manufacturing porcelain through his investigations in China at Jingdezhen
References
[edit]- ^ Wong, Young-tsu (2017). China's Conquest of Taiwan in the Seventeenth Century: Victory at Full Moon. Springer.
- ^ Spence, Jonathan D. In Search of Modern China. W. W. Norton & Company. p. 44.
- ^ Wong, Young-tsu (2017). China's Conquest of Taiwan in the Seventeenth Century: Victory at Full Moon. Springer. p. 113.
- ^ Shepherd, John Robert (2019). Footbinding as Fashion: Ethnicity, Labor, and Status in Traditional China. University of Washington Press.
- ^ Kenneth Pletcher (ed.). The Geography of China: Sacred and Historic Places. The Rosen Publishing Group. p. 223.
- ^ The new international encyclopæeia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby
- ^ Jami, Catherine (2015). "Revisiting the Calendar Case (1664-1669): Science, Religion, and Politics in Early Qing Beijing". The Korean Journal for the History of Science.
- Zhao, Erxun (1928). Draft History of Qing (Qing Shi Gao) (in Chinese).