Death of the Kangxi Emperor
December 20, 1722
After sixty-one years on the throne, the longest reign in Chinese history, the Kangxi Emperor died in Beijing. He had doubled the empire, suppressed revolts, sponsored scholars, dabbled in Jesuit mathematics, and fathered fifty-six children. His successor Yongzheng would inherit an empire at a peak most rulers only dream of.
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Era
Enlightenment (1651–1800), one of 696 events from that era on Saeculum.
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