During the Qing dynasty, the Manchus ruled China from 1644 to 1911. The Manchus were not ethnically Chinese. Where did the Manchus come from?
KEYWORDS
Banner System
Canton System
“Centralized Minimalism”
Civil Service Examination
Confucianism
Ligdan Khan/Zunghar Mongols
Lineage Societies
Manchu/Jurchen
Mandate of Heaven
Ming Dynasty
New World Crops and Silver
Pax Manjurica
Qing Dynasty
Qing military campaigns into Eurasia
Qing subjugation of South China
“Response to the West” Thesis
Secret Societies
TIMELINES
Periods
1271-1368 Yuan (Mongol) Dynasty
1368-1644 Ming Dynasty
1644-1911 Qing Dynasty
Events
1616 Nurhaci founds “Jin” [金] dynasty
1629 Manchus begin military campaigns against Ming
1636 Manchus change dynastic name to “Qing” [清]
c.1644 Population is 100,000,000 (est.)
1645 Qing issues headshaving edict
1683 Qing completes conquest of south/Ming Loyalists
1690s-c.1800 Qing Eurasian campaigns
1780-1831 Population of England doubles
c.1800 Estimated 1,500 county-level officials oversee 300,000,000 subjects
1839-1842 First Opium War
1842 Treaty of Nanjing (Nanking)
1850-1864 Taiping Rebellion
1856-1860 Second Opium War
1858 Treaty of Tianjin
1861 American Civil War begins
1861 British support Qing against Taiping
1861-1895 Self-Strengthening Movement
1864 Qing suppresses Taiping rebellion
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