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Conflict East Asia

Qing Conquest of Ming Dynasty

1618 CE – 1683 CE · 65 years

The Manchu conquest of China killed an estimated 25 million people as the Qing overthrew the Ming, crushed loyalist resistance, and suppressed the Revolt of the Three Feudatories to establish China's last imperial dynasty.

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Belligerents

The main peoples, kingdoms and states involved.

  • Qing Dynasty (Manchu)
  • Ming Dynasty & Ming loyalists

Key moments

Defining events in the Qing Conquest of Ming Dynasty.

  1. 1619 Battle of Sarhu
  2. 1644 Fall of Beijing
  3. 1673–1681 War of the Three Feudatories
  4. 1683 Battle of Penghu

Elsewhere in East Asia at the time

Records whose own span overlaps this one, found by the same test the canvas draws with. The bar under each card is where it sits inside this one.

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Polity · East Asia

Manchu Empire

Attested 1650 CE – 1914 CE

Landmark · East Asia

Yakushima

3000 BCE – still standing

Trade route · East Asia

Tea Horse Road

700 CE – 1950 CE

Conflict · East Asia

Shimabara Rebellion

1637 CE – 1638 CE

Polity · East Asia

Qing Empire

1636 CE – 1912 CE

Landmark · East Asia

Great Wall of China

700 BCE – still standing

Trade route · East Asia

Manila Galleon Trade

1565 CE – 1815 CE

Conflict · East Asia

Wars of Ayutthaya

1351 CE – 1767 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 1618 CE and 1683 CE.

1637 CE Shimabara Rebellion 1656 CE Wat Arun 1618 CE Thirty Years' War 1619 CE Batavia (Jakarta) 1619 CE Batavia

And in the rest of the world

Records running through the same years, on the other side of the map.

Taj Mahal Landmark · South Asia 1632 CE – still standing Vice-Royalty of Peru Polity · Americas 1650 CE – 1815 CE Ottoman–Safavid Wars Conflict · Europe 1514 CE – 1639 CE Hanseatic League Trade route · Europe 1200 CE – 1669 CE Francis Bacon Figure · England 1561 CE – 1626 CE Robben Island Landmark · Africa 1658 CE – still standing
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