Jin dynasty (266-420)
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A successor state to Cao Wei, the Jin Dynasty was able to unify China at the end of the Three Kingdoms period. However, a series of civil wars and invasions of peoples from the north led once again to a period of political fragmentation in China: the Sixteen Kingdoms era.
Establishment
August 266: On 4 February 266, Sima Zhao's son, Sima Yan, forced Cao Huan to abdicate in his favor, replacing Wei with the Jin dynasty on 8 February 266. Cao Huan himself was spared, though, and continued to live until 302, before dying.
Chronology
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Was a military campaign launched by the Western Jin dynasty against the Eastern Wu dynasty in 280 at the end of the Three Kingdoms period (220-280) of China. The campaign concluded with the fall of Eastern Wu and the reunification of China proper under the Western Jin dynasty.
1.1.Battles midstream and downstream of the Yangtze River
Were the battles midstream and downstream of the Yangtze River during the invasion the Eastern Wu Dynasty by the Western Jin Dynasty.
February 280: Wang Hun was a general of the Jin dynasty, who launched a military campaign in mid February 280 to conquer territories previously held by the Wu kingdom. Xunyang, Gaowang, and Laixiang were strategic locations that fell under Jin control during this campaign.
April 280: Wang Jun's 80,000 strong army reached Niuzhu.
May 280: In 279, Jin forces led by Du Yu, Wang Jun and others attacked Wu from six directions. Sun Hao attempted to put up resistance by sending his armies to fight the Jin invaders, but the Wu forces suffered several consecutive defeats and even the Wu chancellor, Zhang Ti, was killed in action. Seeing that Wu was doomed to fall, Sun Hao surrendered to the Jin dynasty on 31 May 280, marking the end of Wu and the end of the Three Kingdoms period.
1.2.Upstream of the Yangtze River
Were the battles upstream of the Yangtze River during the invasion the Eastern Wu Dynasty by the Western Jin Dynasty.
March 280: By early March 280, Wang Jun's army had taken Danyang from Wu.
March 280: Jin forces, led by the emperor Sima Yan, conquered Xiling in 280. Xiling was a strategic territory located northwest of present-day Yichang, Hubei. This victory further expanded the Jin dynasty's control in the region.
March 280: Jingmen and Yidao (present-day Yidu, Hubei) fell under Jin control.
April 280: The victorious Jin fleet, led by the general Wang Jun, continued its offensive against Lexiang, defeating the local Wu forces commanded by Sun Hao. This marked a significant victory for the Jin dynasty in their campaign to expand their territory.
April 280: With the exception of Jianping, which was defended by Wu Yan, the Administrator of Jianping, all other territories of Wu on the upper Yangtze River had fallen under the Jin dynasty's control.
April 280: The Administrator of Wuchang, Sun Hao, lost his will to resist and surrendered without a fight to the Jin dynasty in 280. Sun Hao was the last emperor of the Eastern Wu state during the Three Kingdoms period in China.
Were a series of military campaigns by Former Qin, a Chinese polity during the Sixteen Kingdoms Era, that led to the conquest of northern China.
January 371: Fu Jian subjugated the nomadic Qiang tribes in 370.
January 374: In 373, Fu Jian seized Sichuan.
January 380: In 379, Xiangyang was conquered by the Former Qin dynasty under the rule of the emperor Fu Jian. Xiangyang was an important strategic city located in present-day Hubei province, China.
January 382: By 381, Former Qin emperor Fu Jian had united all of North China under his control.
January 384: Shouchun fell to the Qin vanguard (250,000) under Fu Rong.
January 285: The Tuyuhun Empire was established in 284 by subjugating the native peoples referred to as the Qiang, including more than 100 different and loosely coordinated tribes that did not submit to each other or any authority.
January 297: Chouchi was a Di kingdom founded by Yang Maosou in 296.
January 301: The Chiefdom of Mu'ege existed from 300 AD.
January 303: During the disintegration of China's Jin Dynasty Micheon expanded Goguryeo's borders into the Liaodong Peninsula: first military campaign in 302 headed against the Xuantu Commandery, with conquering Daedong River basins of current Pyeongyang.
January 305: Cheng Han was a Ba-Di kingdom founded by Li Xiong in 304.
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.
January 311: Dai was an independent Xianbei kingdom created by Tuoba Yilu. For his service against the Xiongnu from 304 to 314, the Jin dynasty ceded to him five counties.
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 314: In 313 Goguryeo conquered the Lelang Commandery.
January 315: The Goguryeo Kingdom conquers the Daifang Commandery from the Jin dynasty (266-420).
January 320: In northeast China, Shi Le proclaimed himself King of Zhao, the kingdom which historians refer to as Later Zhao.
January 321: In the western Liang Province, Zhang Gui dutifully defended Jin territory against various Xianbei groups. When Zhang Gui's son, Zhang Shi, died in 320, Liang became an autonomous kingdom under the rule of the Zhang family.
January 331: The Rouran Khaganate is established.
November 337: Former Yan was a Xianbei kingdom founded by Murong Huang in 337.
January 348: Cheng Han was conquered by Jin in 347.
January 385: In 384, Former Qin lost Xiangyang.
January 386: Sichuan and the southern bank of the Yellow River fell to the Jin.
January 386: Chang'an conquered by Western Yan.
January 386: In 385, Qifu Guoren founded Western Qin.
January 387: The Western Yan abandon the city of Chang'an.
January 387: The kingdom of Dai was revived in 386 as Northern Wei.
January 389: Zhai Wei was a Dingling kingdom founded by Zhai Liao in 388.
January 401: A Southern Yan kingdom was founded by Murong De, a Xianbei chieftain, in 400 after Later Yan was split in two by Northern Wei.
January 404: Huan Xuan was a Jin Dynasty warlord who briefly took over the imperial throne from Emperor An of Jin and declared his own state of Chu in 403.
June 404: Huan Chu defeated by Jin.
January 410: Qiao Zong proclaimed himself the Prince of Chengdu in 405 and was given the title "Prince of Shu" by Yao Xing, ruler of the Later Qin, in 409. His state is therefore known as Western Shu.
January 411: Southern Yan was conquered by Jin in 410.
January 414: Qiao's state was destroyed by a campaign under military subordinates of Liu Yu in 413.
January 418: Later Qin was conquered by Jin in 417.
July 420: In 420, Liu Yu usurped the Jin throne and replaced it with his own Liu Song dynasty.
Disestablishment
July 420: In 420, Liu Yu usurped the Jin throne and replaced it with his own Liu Song dynasty.
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