1673 in China
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Events from the year 1673 in China.
Incumbents
- Kangxi Emperor (12th year)
Events
- Prince of Pingnan Shang Kexi, ill and of old age, inquires if he might be allowed to retire from his fiefdom and retire back to Manchuria[1]
- Kangxi leaped at the chance and graciously gave his permission
- December — The southwest China and he tried to ally himself with local generals such as Wang Fuchen. He declares his intent to restore the Ming dynasty
- 1673, Wu's forces captured Hunan and Sichuan provinces
- Wu Sangui ends his connection to the Qing dynasty and declares the Zhou dynasty.[2] An Emperor is not named, implying that an heir to the Ming dynasty will become emperor.
- Sino-Russian border conflicts
Deaths
- Zhu Guozhi, Governor of Yunnan
References
- ^ Spence p. 50
- ISBN 0-393-97351-4.
- Zhao, Erxun (1928). Draft History of Qing (Qing Shi Gao) (in Chinese).
- Spence, Jonathan D. (2002), "The K'ang-hsi Reign", in Peterson, Willard J. (ed.), Cambridge History of China, Vol. 9, Part 1: The Ch'ing Dynasty to 1800, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 120–182, ISBN 0521243343.