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Events from the year 1663 in China. Also known as 壬寅 (Water Tiger) 4359 or 4299 to 卯年 (Water Rabbit) 4360 or 4300 in the Earthly Branches calendar.
Incumbents
[edit]- Kangxi Emperor (2nd 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]- Kinmen in Fujian is captured by Qing dynasty forces from Ming dynasty loyalists.[1]
- Zhuang Tinglong case — a criminal case concerning an unauthorised history of the Ming dynasty and unflattering depiction of the Qing dynasty concludes. Thousands of people who were involved or implicated in the case were rounded up at a military camp in Hangzhou, where they were sentenced. Over 70 people were condemned to death[2]
- Dafo Temple, a Buddhist temple in Guangzhou is rebuilt and expanded by Shang Kexi. The building has been devastated by years of war and neglect[3]
- Kaifeng Jews build a stele and an eight Hall of Scriptures[4]
- Koxinga Ancestral Shrine built by Zheng Jing in modern-day Tainan, Taiwan to worship his father Koxinga[5]
- Geng Jimao and Balthasar Bort lead a joint Qing-Dutch attack on Zheng family forces in Kinmen and Xiamen[6]
- The lifting of an especially strict haijin policy implemented by the Qing in 1661, where the entire coastal population of Fujian, and parts of Guangdong and Zhejiang provinces is moved twenty miles inland. Thousands die in the ordeal.[7]
- Sino-Russian border conflicts
Births
[edit]Deaths
[edit]- March 20 — Empress Xiaokangzhang, (孝康章皇后; 1638 – 1663) a consort of the Shunzhi Emperor
- Hong Ren (弘仁; 1610–1663) an early Qing painter and a member of the Anhui (or Xin'an) school of painting
References
[edit]- ^ FREDERIC WAKEMAN JR. (1986). GREAT ENTERPRISE: THE MANCHU RECONSTRUCTION OF THE IMPERIAL ORDER IN. University of California Press. p. 114. ISBN 0-520-04804-0. Retrieved 2011-06-06.
- ^ Mote, F. W. (2003). Imperial China: 900-1800. p. 296. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-674-01212-7
- ^ 揭秘广州大佛寺的砖瓦为什么是绿色的. Tencent (in Chinese). 2016-04-30. Archived from the original on 2019-05-01. Retrieved 2019-05-01.
- ^ Xu, Xin (1995). The Jews of Kaifeng, China: History, Culture, and Religion.
- ^ 段淩平 (Duan Lingping) (2018). 閩南與臺灣民間神明廟宇源流.
- ^ Andrade, Tonio (October 23, 2011). Lost Colony: The Untold Story of China's First Great Victory Over the West. Princeton University Press.
- ^ Spence, Jonathan D. In Search of Modern China. W. W. Norton & Company. p. 44.
- Zhao, Erxun (1928). Draft History of Qing (Qing Shi Gao) (in Chinese).