1664 in China

Events from the year 1664 in China. Also known as 癸卯年 (Water Rabbit) 4360 or 4300 to 甲辰年 (Wood Dragon) 4361 or 4301.

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See also:Other events of 1664
History of China  • Timeline  • Years

Incumbents

Viceroys

Events
  • January — Dutch fleets return to Batavia after Qing-Dutch alliance fails[1]
  • Spring — Zheng Jing withdraws the last Zheng family forces on the mainland from Tongshan (桐山街道), Fujian
  • After failing talk the Zheng family into peacefully surrendering, Dutch Captain Herman de Bitter defeats a fleet at Penghu in August and temporarily occupies Keelung harbor
  • A planned Qing invasion of the Kingdom of Tungning led by Admiral Shi Lang and supported by the Dutch fleet in Taiwan fails to occur[2][3]
  • Ming loyalist Zheng Huangyan (張煌言) is executed in Hangzhou
  • An imperial edict imposes another ban on footbinding[4]
  • Changsha becomes the capital of Hunan province, having being upgraded from a superior prefecture[5]
  • The British East India Company begins trade in China[6]
  • Jesuit missionary and astronomer Adam Schall von Bell is tried due to accusations by Yang Guangxian[7]
  • Sino-Russian border conflicts

Births
  • France — François Xavier d'Entrecolles (1664 – 1741); Chinese name: 殷弘绪, Yin Hongxu) a French Jesuit priest, who learned the Chinese technique of manufacturing porcelain through his investigations in China at Jingdezhen
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References
  1. Wong, Young-tsu (2017). China’s Conquest of Taiwan in the Seventeenth Century: Victory at Full Moon. Springer.
  2. Spence, Jonathan D. In Search of Modern China. W. W. Norton & Company. p. 44.
  3. Wong, Young-tsu (2017). China’s Conquest of Taiwan in the Seventeenth Century: Victory at Full Moon. Springer. p. 113.
  4. Shepherd, John Robert (2019). Footbinding as Fashion: Ethnicity, Labor, and Status in Traditional China. University of Washington Press.
  5. Kenneth Pletcher (ed.). The Geography of China: Sacred and Historic Places. The Rosen Publishing Group. p. 223.
  6. The new international encyclopæeia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby
  7. Jami, Catherine (2015). "Revisiting the Calendar Case (1664-1669): Science, Religion, and Politics in Early Qing Beijing". The Korean Journal for the History of Science.
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