Qing conquest of the Ming
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Was a a conflict that saw the transition from the Ming to the Qing Dinasty in China. The Qing created an indpendent domain in Manchuria, revolted against the Ming and systematically conquered all Ming territories in the following decades.
Chronology
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January 1641: A mutiny led by Zhang Xianzhong broke out in Sichuan in 1640.
Were a series of military campaign by the Qing against the the Ming that saw the fall of the latter.
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.
August 1645: The rebel population of the Jiading and Songjiang districts were massacred by the former Ming general Li Chengdong.
September 1645: Conquest of Songjiang.
As a consequence of the taxes imposed by the Ming dynasty, the aboriginal chieftains She Chongming and An Bangyan rose up in revolt.
December 1621: Fall 1621 - Summer 1629: As a consequence of the taxes imposed by the Ming dynasty, the aboriginal chieftains She Chongming and An Bangyan rose up in revolt.
January 1630: Li Zicheng rebelled in 1630 in Shaanxi in the north.
Was the invasion of Korea by the Later Jin Dynasty (precursor of the Qing Dynasty).
January 1627: The Jurchen army, led by Nurhaci, advanced into Uiju in 1627 during the Later Jin military occupation.
January 1627: The Neunghan Fortress, located in present-day South Korea, fell on 21 January 1627 during the Later Jin military occupation.
March 1627: In 1627, the Jurchen, led by Nurhaci, advanced into Hwangju, which was part of the Joseon Dynasty.
April 1627: After a peace agreement with the Joseon Dynasty, The Jin army withdrew to Mukden, ending the three-month-long invasion of Korea.
March 1627: The Jin army crossed the Taedong River.
January 1627: In 1627, the Jurchens, led by Nurhaci, attacked Anju, a territory that was under the Later Jin military occupation. Facing certain defeat, the Anju garrisons chose to commit suicide by blowing up their gunpowder storehouse.
March 1627: Pyongyang fell without a fight in 1627 to the Later Jin dynasty, led by the military leader Nurhaci.
Was the invasion of Korea by Qing China.
December 1636: In 1636, during the Second Manchu invasion of Korea, Hanseong's garrisons, led by Korean military leader Gwon Yul, were defeated by the Qing Dynasty forces. The city was subsequently taken by the Qing Dynasty, marking a significant event in Korean history.
January 1637: The Qing Dynasty Captured the second son and consorts of Korean King Injo. He surrendered the day after.
January 1637: In 1637, during the Joseon-Ming War, the Ming general Yang Sichang withdrew the remaining Ming forces from Korea to Denglai in northern Shandong.
January 1637: Dorgon occupied Ganghwa Island on 27 January.
Was the secession of the state of Shun, centred in Xi'an, from the Ming Dynasty.
March 1644: In February 1644, the rebel leader Li Zicheng founded the Shun dynasty in Xi'an and proclaimed himself king.
April 1644: On April 24, Li Zicheng breached the walls of Beijing, and the Emperor hanged himself the next day on a hill behind the Forbidden City.
April 1644: By March Shun armies had taken the important city of Taiyuan in Shanxi.
Was a battle that ended the Dutch East India Company's rule over Taiwan and began the Kingdom of Tungning's rule over the island.
February 1662: The siege of Fort Zeeland ended the rule of the Dutch East India Company in Taiwan, and opened the cycle of the Kingdom of Tungning.
