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Name: Qing conquest of Ming China

Type: Event

Start: 1618 AD

End: 1659 AD

Parent: Qing conquest of the Ming

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Were a series of military campaign by the Qing against the the Ming that saw the fall of the latter.

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  • September 1618: Battle of Qinghe.
  • July 1619: Battle of Kaiyuan.
  • September 1619: Battle of Tieling.
  • October 1619: Battle of Xicheng.
  • December 1621: Battle of Fort Zhenjiang.
  • March 1622: Battle of Guangning.
  • December 1631: Battle of Dalinghe.
  • September 1634: Siege of Lüshun.
  • January 1643: Battle of Song-Jin.
  • June 1644: Li Zicheng left Beijing on June 4th.
  • March 1646: In February 1646, Qing armies conquered the land west of the Qiantang River from the Lu regime.
  • September 1646: The Longwu court left its Fujian base.
  • January 1647: A small Qing force, led by former Southern Ming commander Li Chengdong, captured Guangzhou.
  • June 1648: Li Chengdong mutinied against the Qing, and the concurrent rebellion of another former Ming general in Jiangxi helped the Yongli regime retake most of southern China.
  • January 1651: Both Milayin and Ding Guodong were captured and killed in 1648, and in 1650 Muslim rebels were crushed in campaigns that inflicted heavy casualties on them.
  • August 1652: Most of the commanders who had supported the Qing in Guangxi reverted to the Ming side.
  • January 1659: In late January 1659, a Qing army led by the Manchu prince, Doni, captured the capital of Yunnan.
  • February 1647: Chengdu was taken in early 1647.
  • January 1645: The Qing Dynasty conquered Shanxi and Shaanxi.
  • October 1645: End of the Shun Dynasty.
  • November 1646: Milayin, a muslim chief at Ganzhou, led a rebellion against the Qing rule.
  • April 1644: Wu Sangui's departure from Ningyuan Stronghold had left all territory outside the Great Wall under Qing control.
  • July 1645: The Jiangnan region is pacified by the Qing.
  • May 1645: The Qing army, led by the Manchu prince Dodo, captured the key city of Xuzhou, north of the Huai He River, in early May 1645.
  • June 1621: Battle of Shen-Liao.
  • May 1618: Battle of Fushun.
  • May 1645: On May 13, 1645, Ming Dynasty general Shi Kefa and Qing Dynasty forces led by Prince Dodo converged on Yangzhou.
  • June 1645: On June 1, 1645, the Qing armies led by the Manchu prince Dodo crossed the Yangtze River and easily captured the garrison city of Zhenjiang from the Ming Dynasty forces.
  • June 1645: The Qing Dynasty, led by Emperor Shunzhi, arrived at the gates of Nanjing in 1645. The Hongguang Emperor, leader of the Southern Ming Dynasty, had already fled the city. As a result, Nanjing surrendered to the Qing forces without resistance on June 16.
  • October 1645: Jiangyin held out against some 10,000 Qing soldiers for 83 days but on October 9, 1645, its walls were finally breached.
  • January 1651: The new Qing armies managed to recapture the central provinces of Huguang, Jiangxi, and Guangdong in 1649 and 1650.

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