Kangxi's Imperial Encyclopedia
May 1, 1713
In Beijing, the Kangxi Emperor commissioned what would become the Gujin Tushu Jicheng, a ten-thousand-chapter compendium distilling every field of Chinese knowledge. Printed a decade later in copper-plate movable type, it remains the largest encyclopedia ever completed. The emperor understood that empire was as much an archive as an army.
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Also in 1713 (3 other events on record)
- Treaty of Utrecht · Europe · Politics
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- Papal Bull Unigenitus · Europe · Religion
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Enlightenment (1651–1800), one of 696 events from that era on Saeculum.