1673 in China

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Events from the year 1673 in China.

Incumbents

• Kangxi Emperor (12th year)

Events

• Prince of Pingnan Shang Kexi, ill and of old age, inquires if he might be allowed to retire from his fiefdom and retire back to Manchuria[1]
  • Kangxi leaped at the chance and graciously gave his permission
• December — The Revolt of the Three Feudatories broke out in 1673 when Wu Sangui's forces, based in his fiefdom in Yunnan, overran most of southwest China and he tried to ally himself with local generals such as Wang Fuchen. He declares his intent to restore the Ming dynasty
  • 1673, Wu's forces captured Hunan and Sichuan provinces
  • Wu Sangui ends his connection to the Qing dynasty and declares the Zhou dynasty.[2] An Emperor is not named, implying that an heir to the Ming dynasty will become emperor.
• Sino-Russian border conflicts

Deaths

• Zhu Guozhi, Governor of Yunnan

References

1. Spence p. 50
2. Spence, Jonathan D. (1999). The Search for Modern China. W. W. Morton & Company. p. 50. ISBN 0-393-97351-4.

• Zhao, Erxun (1928). Draft History of Qing (Qing Shi Gao) (in Chinese).
• Spence, Jonathan D. (2002), "The K'ang-hsi Reign", in Peterson, Willard J. (ed.), Cambridge History of China, Vol. 9, Part 1: The Ch'ing Dynasty to 1800, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 120–182, ISBN 0521243343.