Qing Dynasty Takes Beijing
June 6, 1644
Manchu cavalry under Prince Dorgon, invited through the Shanhai Pass by the Ming general Wu Sangui, rode into Beijing and installed the five-year-old Shunzhi Emperor on the Dragon Throne. The Qing dynasty, which would rule China for two hundred and sixty-eight years, had arrived. Decades of bloody conquest in the south remained, but the mandate of heaven had shifted.
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Also in 1644 (4 other events on record)
- Ming Dynasty Falls · East Asia · Politics
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Era
Renaissance (1501–1650), one of 715 events from that era on Saeculum.
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