Historical figures of the Qing Dynasty

The atlas holds 21 people and 77 moments here, from 1835 to 1912. The most recorded lives are Sun Yat-sen, Empress Dowager Cixi and Chiang Kai-shek. Among them Political Leaders, Educators and Writers.

Notable people

1. Chiang Kai-shek

   from 1887 to 1911

   6 moments here

   Chinese military commander, revolutionary, and statesman. Chiang Kai-shek led the Nationalist government of China through the Northern Expedition,…

2. Chien-Shiung Wu

   in 1912

   1 moment here

   Chinese-American experimental physicist whose career moved from Jiangsu and eastern China to California, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York,…

3. Deng Xiaoping

   in 1904

   1 moment here

   Chinese revolutionary, statesman, and paramount leader of the People’s Republic of China from 1978 to 1989.…

4. Emilio Aguinaldo

   from 1897 to 1898

   2 moments here

   Filipino revolutionary, military leader, and political figure who led forces in the Philippine Revolution, headed the First Philippine Republic,…

5. Empress Dowager Cixi

   from 1835 to 1908

   13 moments here

   Empress Dowager Cixi (Yehe Nara Xingzhen) was a Manchu noblewoman who exercised decisive power in the Qing government as empress dowager and regent…

6. Herbert Hoover

   from 1899 to 1900

   2 moments here

   Herbert Clark Hoover was an American mining engineer, international relief administrator, U.S.…

7. Huang Xianfan

   in 1899

   1 moment here

   Huang Xianfan was a Zhuang Chinese historian, ethnologist, educator, and pioneer of field research on minority peoples in Guangxi and neighboring…

8. Jack London

   in 1904

   1 moment here

   American novelist, journalist, sailor, war correspondent, and socialist activist. Born John Griffith Chaney in San Francisco, he grew up around the…

9. José Rizal

   in 1891

   1 moment here

   Filipino nationalist, writer, physician, and polymath whose reform advocacy, novels, exile, trial, and execution made him a central figure in…

10. Lavr Kornilov

    from 1905 to 1910

    3 moments here

    Lavr Georgiyevich Kornilov was an Imperial Russian Army officer, military intelligence officer, explorer, and general.…

11. Lu Xun

    from 1881 to 1912

    6 moments here

    Lu Xun (Zhou Shuren; 1881–1936) was a Chinese writer, critic, translator, lecturer, and civil servant whose work was central to modern Chinese…

12. Mao Zedong

    from 1893 to 1912

    5 moments here

    Chinese communist revolutionary and political leader who led the Chinese Communist Party and founded the People’s Republic of China.…

13. Pearl S. Buck

    from 1892 to 1896

    2 moments here

    American writer, humanitarian, and activist whose life was divided between the United States and China before she became an internationally prominent…

14. Puyi

    from 1906 to 1912

    4 moments here

    Puyi (1906–1967), the Xuantong Emperor, was the last emperor of Qing China and later the Kangde Emperor of Japanese-controlled Manchukuo.…

15. Soong Ching-ling

    from 1893 to 1907

    2 moments here

    Chinese politician and activist, wife of Sun Yat-sen, leading figure of the Kuomintang’s left wing, and later a senior officeholder of the People’s…

16. Soong Mei-ling

    in 1898

    1 moment here

    Soong Mei-ling, also known as Madame Chiang Kai-shek, was a Chinese political figure and wife of Chiang Kai-shek.…

17. Sun Yat-sen

    from 1866 to 1912

    18 moments here

    Chinese physician, revolutionary, and political thinker who founded the Republic of China and the Kuomintang.…

18. Ulysses S. Grant

    in 1879

    2 moments here

    Ulysses S. Grant was an American army officer, Union commander during the Civil War, and the 18th president of the United States.…

19. Walter Brattain

    in 1902

    1 moment here

    American experimental physicist and co-inventor of the point-contact transistor. Brattain’s documented life moved from his birth in Amoy, China,…

20. Yun Ch'iho

    from 1885 to 1896

    3 moments here

    Korean politician, reformer, educator, Christian leader, diarist, and later Japanese colonial collaborator.…

21. Zhou Enlai

    from 1898 to 1910

    2 moments here

    Chinese revolutionary, statesman, and diplomat who served as the first premier of the People’s Republic of China from 1949 until his death.…

Moments

1. 1835 Birth in Beijing Empress Dowager Cixi
2. 1852 Entry into the Forbidden City Empress Dowager Cixi
3. 1856 Birth of Zaichun at the imperial palace Empress Dowager Cixi
4. 1860 Evacuation to Rehe Empress Dowager Cixi
5. 1861 Residence at Chuxiu Palace Empress Dowager Cixi
6. 1861 Return to Beijing during the Xinyou Coup Empress Dowager Cixi
7. 1861 Regency from the Hall of Mental Cultivation Empress Dowager Cixi
8. 1866 Birth in Cuiheng Sun Yat-sen
9. 1879 Arrival at Canton Ulysses S. Grant
10. 1879 Arrival and diplomacy in Peking Ulysses S. Grant
11. 1881 Birth in Shaoxing Lu Xun
12. 1883 Return to Cuiheng Sun Yat-sen
13. 1883 Diocesan Home education Sun Yat-sen
14. 1884 Government Central School attendance Sun Yat-sen
15. 1884 Baptism in Hong Kong Sun Yat-sen
16. 1885 Exile and study in Shanghai Yun Ch'iho
17. 1886 Medical study at Boji Hospital Sun Yat-sen
18. 1887 Transfer to Hong Kong College of Medicine Sun Yat-sen
19. 1887 Birth in Xikou Chiang Kai-shek
20. 1888 Four Bandits circle in Hong Kong Sun Yat-sen
21. 1889 Retirement residence at the Summer Palace Empress Dowager Cixi
22. 1891 Hong Kong residence and clinic José Rizal
23. 1892 Earliest Chinese home Pearl S. Buck
24. 1892 Graduation in Hong Kong Sun Yat-sen
25. 1892 West-Orient Pharmacy in Macao Sun Yat-sen
26. 1893 Birth in Shanghai Soong Ching-ling
27. 1893 Pharmacy moved to Guangzhou Sun Yat-sen
28. 1893 Teaching at Anglo-Chinese College Yun Ch'iho
29. 1893 Birth at Shaoshanchong Mao Zedong
30. 1894 Petition mission to Tianjin Sun Yat-sen
31. 1894 Sixtieth-birthday commemoration Empress Dowager Cixi
32. 1895 Planning the Guangzhou uprising Sun Yat-sen
33. 1896 Childhood in Zhenjiang Pearl S. Buck
34. 1896 Six-month stay in Shanghai Yun Ch'iho
35. 1897 Voluntary exile in Hong Kong Emilio Aguinaldo
36. 1898 Jiangnan Naval Academy student Lu Xun
37. 1898 Birth in Pudong Soong Mei-ling
38. 1898 Birth in Huai'an Zhou Enlai
39. 1898 Departure aboard USS McCulloch Emilio Aguinaldo
40. 1899 First Christmas in Tientsin Herbert Hoover
41. 1899 School of Mines and Railways student Lu Xun
42. 1899 Birth at Qusi Village Huang Xianfan
43. 1900 Flight to Xi'an during the Boxer crisis Empress Dowager Cixi
44. 1900 Boxer Rebellion siege at Tientsin Herbert Hoover
45. 1901 Mountain-school study Chiang Kai-shek
46. 1902 Boarding the return train at Chengtingfu Empress Dowager Cixi
47. 1902 Ceremonious return to Beijing Empress Dowager Cixi
48. 1902 Birth in Amoy Walter Brattain
49. 1904 Observation of the Battle of the Yalu Jack London
50. 1904 Birth in Guang'an Deng Xiaoping

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