Hong Xiuquan
1814–1864 · Person
Failed civil-service candidate who proclaimed himself brother of Jesus; founded the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom; suicide on Nanjing's fall.
On these timelines: China, People, Master
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- Qin Shi Huang unifies China (221 BCE)
- Han dynasty (202 BCE)
- Tang dynasty (618)
- Qing dynasty (1644)
- Ming dynasty (1368)
- Song dynasty (960)
- Yuan dynasty (1271)
- Xinhai Revolution (1911)
Around 1814
- Otto von Bismarck (1815)
- Charles Darwin (1809)
- Abraham Lincoln (1809)
- Battle of Trafalgar (1805)
- Napoleon's invasion of Russia (1812)
- Pride and Prejudice (1813)
- Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 (Choral) (1824)
- Karl Marx (1818)
- Abolition of British slave trade (1807)
- Dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire (1806)