1856 in China

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Events from the year 1856 in China.

Incumbents

• Xianfeng Emperor (6th year)

Viceroys

• Viceroy of Zhili — Guiliang

Events

• Nian Rebellion
  • several Nian bands formed an alliance led by Zhang Lexing, organizing themselves into a loose confederation of five armies[1][2]
• Second Opium War begins
  • Authorities in Canton order attacks on Thirteen Factories, which are subsequently destroyed in a fire
  • Merchant ship Arrow seized by Qing authorities
  • Battle of Canton (1856)
  • Capture of the French Folly Fort
  • Battle of the Bogue (1856)
  • November — Battle of the Barrier Forts
• Taiping Rebellion
  • Battle of Jiangnan (1856), Qing forces twice fail to re-take Nanjing
  • Tianjing incident, internal conflict within the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom
• Miao Rebellion (1854–73)
• Panthay Rebellion
  • a massacre of at least 4,000 Muslims organized by a Qing Manchu official responsible for suppressing the revolt in the provincial capital of Kunming sparked a province-wide multi-ethnic insurgency.[3][4]
• Red Turban Rebellion (1854–1856) ends

Deaths

• Yang Xiuqing in Tianjing
• Jirhangga, Qing commander in Battle of Jiangnan (1860)
• Xiang Rong, Qing commander in Battle of Jiangnan (1860)

References

1. Perry, Elizabeth J. (1980). Rebels and Revolutionaries in North China, 1845-1945. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press.
2. Michael Dillon (15 September 2012). China: A Modern History. I.B.Tauris. pp. 85–. ISBN 978-1-78076-381-1.
3. R. Keith Schoppa (2002). Revolution and its past: identities and change in modern Chinese history. Prentice Hall. p. 79. ISBN 0-13-022407-3. Retrieved 2010-06-28.
4. Fairbank, John King; Twitchett, Denis Crispin, eds. (1980). The Cambridge History of China. Cambridge University Press. p. 213. ISBN 0521220297. Retrieved 24 April 2014.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)