Later Liang
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Was a dynastic state of China and one of the Sixteen Kingdoms in Chinese history.
Establishment
January 388: In 387, Lü Guang founded Later Liang.
Chronology
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1. Events
January 398: Southern Liang was founded by Tufa Wugu in 397.
January 398: Northern Liang was founded by Duan Ye in 397.
January 401: Western Liang was founded by Li Gao in 400.
January 404: Later Liang was conquered by Later Qin in 403.
June 907: Liu Yin was named regional governor and military officer by the Tang court in 905. Though the Tang fell two years later, Liu did not declare himself the founder of a new kingdom as other southern leaders had done. He merely inherited the title of Prince of Nanping in 909.
It was not until Liu Yin's death in 917 that his brother, Liu Yan, declared the founding of a new kingdom.
June 907: In 907 the Tang dynasty was ended when Zhu deposed Emperor Ai and took the throne for himself, establishing the Later Liang Dynasty. This inaugurated an era of fragmentation, known as the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period.
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: Qian Liu was named Prince of Yue in 902, with the title of Prince of Wu added two years later. In 907, when the Tang Dynasty fell and was replaced in the north by the Later Liang, military leaders in the south formed their own kingdoms.
June 907: Ma Yin was named regional governor by the Tang court in 896 after fighting against a rebel named Yang Xingmi. He declared himself as the Prince of Chu with the fall of the Tang Dynasty in 907.
June 907: In 907 Zhu Wen forced the last Tang emperor to abdicate and proclaimed himself the first emperor of the Later Liang. Yang Wo refused to acknowledge this change and continued the use of the last era name of Tang. From this point Wu was an independent, sovereign entity.
June 907: Wang Shenzhi’s older brother Wang Chao was given the title of Surveillance Commissioner in 892. Wang Shenzhi himself was named military commissioner, and in 909, in the wake of the collapse of the Tang Dynasty two years earlier, named himself the Prince of Min.
June 907: After the fall of the Tang Dynasty in 907, the territory of most of modern Shanxi went to the Jin state, which was the precursor to the Later Tang Dynasty. The Jin state was ruled by Li Keyong, a prominent military leader during that time.
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.
January 908: After the collapse of the Tang in 907, the succeeding Later Liang's founding emperor ("Taizu"), Zhu Wen made Wang, then his vassal, the Prince of Zhao. In 910, when the Emperor tried to directly take over the territory of Zhao and its neighboring Yiwu Circuit, Wang Rong and Yiwu's military governor Wang Chuzhi turned against the Later Liang, aligning themselves with Later Liang's archenemy, Jin's prince, Li Cunxu, instead.
January 911: Wang Chuzhi ruled Yiwu Circuit as its de jure sovereign from 910 (when he, along with his neighboring warlord Wang Rong the Prince of Zhao, broke away from Later Liang).
January 911: The Liao Dynasty conquers the territory of the Xi (Kumo Xi).
January 912: The petty kingdom of Yan (燕) was established by Liu Shouguang in 911.
November 923: Li Cunxu was successful in overthrowing the Later Liang in 923 and proclaimed himself emperor of the Later Tang, which he referred to as the "Restored Tang".
Disestablishment
November 923: Li Cunxu was successful in overthrowing the Later Liang in 923 and proclaimed himself emperor of the Later Tang, which he referred to as the "Restored Tang".
