Qing Dynasty

Overview

The Qing dynasty, officially the Great Qing, also known as the Qing Empire or Qing China, was a Manchu-led imperial dynasty of China and an early modern empire in East Asia which existed from 1636/1644 to 1912. The last imperial dynasty in Chinese history, the Qing dynasty was preceded by the Ming dynasty and succeeded by the Republic of China. At its height of power, the empire stretched from the Sea of Japan in the east to the Pamir Mountains in the west, and from the Mongolian Plateau in the north to the South China Sea in the south. Originally emerging from the Later Jin dynasty founded in 1616 and proclaimed in Shenyang in 1636, the dynasty seized control of the Ming capital Beijing and North China in 1644, traditionally considered the start of the dynasty's rule. The dynasty lasted until the Xinhai Revolution of October 1911 led to the abdication of the last emperor in February 1912. The multi-ethnic Qing dynasty assembled the territorial base for modern China. The Qing controlled the most territory of any dynasty in Chinese history, and in 1790 was the fourth-largest empire in world history to that point. It was also the most populous state at the time, with over 426 million citizens in 1907.

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Borders & accuracy

Solid borders are reconstructed from canonical historical-basemap data or hand-crafted from scholarly atlases.

• SOURCEaourednik / historical-basemaps
• DETAILhistorical-basemaps:1800:Qing Empire
• SNAPSHOT1800
• MATCHEDQing Empire
• POLITY TYPEstate

Wars of this empire160

Conflicts whose belligerents name this polity, best-documented first.

• Taiping Rebellion1850–64
  World-changing · 30M dead
• Qing Conquest of Ming China1618–83
  World-changing · 5.0M dead
• Manchu Conquest of China1616–83
  World-changing · 3.0M dead
• Sino-Burmese War (1765–1769)1765–69
  World-changing
• Battle of Ngọc Hồi–Đống Đa1789
  World-changing
• Sino-French War1884–85
  World-changing
• Ming-Qing Transition1618–83
  Major conflict · 2.0M dead
• Qing Western Expansion Wars1680–1759
  Major conflict · 2.0M dead
• Dzungar-Qing Wars1688–1759
  Major conflict · 2.0M dead
• Kangxi Emperor's Military Campaigns1673–81
  Major conflict · 1.0M dead
• Dzungar-Qing Final Wars1755–59
  Major conflict · 1.0M dead
• Miao Rebellion1795–1806
  Major conflict · 1.0M dead
• Dungan Revolt1862–77
  Major conflict · 1.0M dead
• First Opium War1839–42
  Major conflict · 100K dead
• Xinhai Revolution1911–12
  Major conflict · 100K dead
• Tonkin campaign1883–86
  Major conflict
• White Lotus Rebellion1796–1804
  Significant · 500K dead
• Nian Rebellion1851–68
  Significant · 500K dead
• First Sino-Japanese War1894–95
  Significant · 150K dead
• Opium Wars1840–60
  Significant · 100K dead
• Panthay Rebellion1855–73
  Significant · 100K dead
• Dungan Rebellion1862–77
  Significant · 100K dead
• Xinjiang Conflicts1862–77
  Significant · 100K dead
• Yihetuan Movement (Boxer Rebellion)1899–1901
  Significant · 100K dead

+ 136 more in the atlas.