1647 in China

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Events from the year 1647 in China.

Incumbents

Events
  • Transition from Ming to Qing
    • 20 January 1647, a small Qing force led by former Southern Ming commander Li Chengdong (李成東) captures Guangzhou, kills the Shaowu Emperor and sends the Yongli Emperor fleeing to Nanning in Guangxi.[1]

Deaths

References
  1. Wakeman 1985, p. 738.
  • Wakeman, Frederic, Jr. (1985), The Great Enterprise: The Manchu Reconstruction of Imperial Order in Seventeenth-Century China, Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press, ISBN 978-0-520-04804-1.
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