1645

Dorgon Issues Queue Order

1645

The Manchu regent ordered all Chinese men to shave their foreheads and braid their hair into the distinctive queue of Qing subjects, on pain of death. Keep your hair and lose your head, or lose your hair and keep your head, went the saying. Millions chose the latter; many chose the former.

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Before and after in East Asia

Before: June 6, 1644: Qing Dynasty Takes Beijing
After: 1646: Qing Dynasty Completes Southern Conquest

Before and after in Politics

Before: 1644: Dutch Whaling Peaks off Spitsbergen
After: May 5, 1646: Charles I Surrenders to the Scots

Era

Renaissance (1501–1650), one of 715 events from that era on Saeculum.