Events from the year 1659 in the Qing dynasty. At the behest of Hong Chengchou, the Qing court grants Wu Sangui own fiefdom, effectively gaining all civilian...

1659 (MDCLIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1659th...

The 1650s decade ran from January 1, 1650, to December 31, 1659. January 7 – Louis I, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen, dies after a reign of more than 63 years...

J. (1640–1661) Thomas Pereira S.J. (1645–1708) Ferdinand Verbiest S.J. (1659) Vittorio Riccio O.P. (1655-1662) Caspar Castner S.J. (1696–1709) Giuseppe...

events, see History of China. See also the list of Chinese monarchs, Chinese emperors family tree, dynasties of China and years in China. Dates prior to 841...

discipline which had generally forbidden the use of local languages. In the 1659 instructions given by the Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of...

Michał Piotr Boym, SJ (Chinese: 卜彌格; pinyin: Bǔ Mígé; c. 1612 – 1659) was a Polish Jesuit missionary to China, scientist and explorer. He was an early...

1653–1658) Gheorghe III Ghica, Voivode (1658–1659) Constantin Șerban, Voivode (1659, 1661) Ștefan X Lupu, Voivode (1659–1661, 1661) Eustratie Dabija, Voivode...

As of 2020, China had the world's second-highest number of top universities in several most cited international rankings including the Academic Ranking...

The history of the missions of the Jesuits in China is part of the history of relations between China and the Western world. The missionary efforts and...

missionaries in China, but Johannes Kepler and Galileo Galilei's ideas slowly trickled into China starting with the Polish Jesuit Michael Boym (1612–1659) in 1627...

Nanjing is the capital of Jiangsu province in eastern China. It is a sub-provincial city, and a megacity. The city has 11 districts, an administrative...

Akhtar Roop Kumar Rathod 1658 "Aa Kahin Door Chale" Udit Narayan Lal Baadshah 1659 "Dil Ki Dhadkan Bole" Aadesh Shrivastava Maya Govind Udit Narayan, Sapna...

Poles in China form a small population, estimated at 1,000 (as of 2012) and mostly concentrated in the major cities of Beijing, Guangzhou, Hong Kong and...

Tertholen (Caribbean), Occupied in 1696 "New Courland", (1637, 1642, 1654–1659, 1680–1690) Courlander Gambia Fort Bayona, 1651-1660 Fort Jacob, 1651-1660...

the Qing dynasty had officially abandoned the tradition of Chinese-Islamic astronomy in 1659. The Muslim astronomer Yang Guangxian was known for his attacks...

to Qing or the Manchu conquest of China from 1618 to 1683 saw the transition between two major dynasties in Chinese history. It was a decades-long conflict...

column specifies the grade in which the kanji is taught in Elementary schools in Japan. Grade "S" means that it is taught in secondary school. The list...

involved in the Thirty Years' War until 1648 and the Franco-Spanish War until 1659, while Portugal was involved in the Dutch–Portuguese War until 1663. In the...

repairs to the BRP Sierra Madre grounded in Ayungin Shoal, but denies making any concession to China. On May 4, China releases what it calls a text of the...

Shi Shilun (施世綸, 1659 – July 3, 1722), popularly known as Shi Gong (施公; "Lord Shi") or Qingtian (施青天; "Clear-Sky Shi"), was a much-praised Qing dynasty...

Hyojong (Korean: 효종; Hanja: 孝宗; 3 July 1619 – 23 June 1659), personal name Yi Ho (이호; 李淏), was the 17th monarch of the Joseon dynasty of Korea. He is best...

Opium War (simplified Chinese: 第二次鸦片战争; traditional Chinese: 第二次鴉片戰爭), also known as the Second Anglo-Chinese War, the Second China War, the Arrow War,...

forces; only in late 1658 did well-fed and well-supplied Qing troops mount a multipronged campaign to take Guizhou and Yunnan. In late January 1659, a Qing...

company in the U.S. from 1912 to 1929. Made from a nitrocellulose compound developed at the Edison laboratory—though occasionally employing Bakelite in its...

leaders meet in private, outside the fort, for negotiations. The two met in a hut in the foothills of Pratapgad fort on 10 November 1659. The arrangements...

In Our Time is a radio discussion programme exploring a wide variety of historical, scientific, cultural, religious and philosophical topics, broadcast...

The Mongols are an East Asian ethnic group native to Mongolia, China (majority in Inner Mongolia), as well as Buryatia and Kalmykia of Russia. The Mongols...

This is a timeline of the history of the area in present-day South Africa....

2nd ed., 1659. Re-published by Astrology Classics (Bel Air, Maryland), 2004; by Ascella Publications, ed. D. Houlding, London, 2000; and [in facsimile...