Former Zhao
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Was a kingdom during the Chines period of the Sixteen Kingdoms.
Establishment
January 305: Former Zhao was established. In Chinese historiography, it was given two conditional state titles, the Northern Han (北漢; Běi Hàn) for the state proclaimed in 304 by Liu Yuan, and the Former Zhao (前趙; Qián Zhào) for the state proclaimed in 319 by Liu Yao. The reference to them as separate states should be considered misleading, given that when Liu Yao changed the name of the state from "Han" to "Zhao" in 319, he treated the state as having been continuous from the time that Liu Yuan founded it in 304; instead, he de-established royal lineage from the Han dynasty and claimed ancestry directly from Yu the Great of the Xia dynasty.
Chronology
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1. Events
January 312: On 13 July 311, Liu Cong's general, Shi Le, sacked the Jin capital of Luoyang and took Emperor Huai of Jin as hostage. The fall of Luoyang came to be known as the Disaster of Yongjia.
January 320: In northeast China, Shi Le proclaimed himself King of Zhao, the kingdom which historians refer to as Later Zhao.
Disestablishment
January 329: In 328, Liu Yao attacked Shi Le's holdings in Pingyang and took it after a siege lasting 100 days.
