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Name: Former Shu

Type: Polity

Start: 907 AD

End: 925 AD

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Was one of the Ten Kingdoms during the period of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms in China.

Establishment


  • June 907: Wang Jian was named military governor of western Sichuan by the Tang court in 891. As the Tang Dynasty weakened and eventually fell in 907, Wang was able to expand his holdings into eastern Sichuan and took the title of emperor as the Tang fell in 907, establishin Former Shu.
  • June 907: Qi was a kingdom during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period in Chinese history which, at its prime, covered parts of modern-day Gansu, Shaanxi, and Sichuan provinces.
  • Chronology


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    1. Events


  • January 925: Gao Juxinx declared the foundation of the Kingdom of Jingnan in 924 after the Later Liang fell to the Later Tang.

  • Disestablishment


  • January 926: Wang Jian died in 918 and was replaced by an incompetent son, Wang Zongyan. The Later Tang replaced the Later Liang in 923. Shortly after that, the Shatuo Turk-controlled northern China dynasty marched in under the leadership of Li Cunxu, and incorporated the kingdom into his domains.
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