Later Zhou
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Was one of the Five Dynasties during the period of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms in China.
Establishment
February 951: The Later Han was among the shortest-lived regimes in the long history of China. Liu Zhiyuan died the year following the founding of the dynasty, to be succeeded by his teenaged son. The dynasty was overthrown two years later when a Han Chinese named Guo Wei led a military coup and declared himself emperor of the Later Zhou.
Chronology
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1. Events
January 952: The short-lived state of Later Han fell in 950. Liu Min founded the Northern Han Kingdom, sometimes referred to as the Eastern Han, in 951 claiming that he was the legitimate heir to the imperial throne of Later Han.
January 956: The Siege of Shouzhou was a two year long (955-957 AD) siege conducted by the Later Zhou Dynasty against Shouzhou, the major fortress of the Southern Tang Kingdom above the Yangtze River.
January 959: Li Jing suffered a series of defeats at Shouzhou against the Later Zhou in a siege between 956 and 958, and ceded all of its land north of the Yangtze River.
February 960: Guo Rong of Later Zhou was succeeded by his seven-year-old son upon his death. Soon thereafter Zhao Kuangyin usurped the throne and declared himself emperor of the Great Song Dynasty, a dynasty that would eventually reunite China.
Disestablishment
February 960: Guo Rong of Later Zhou was succeeded by his seven-year-old son upon his death. Soon thereafter Zhao Kuangyin usurped the throne and declared himself emperor of the Great Song Dynasty, a dynasty that would eventually reunite China.
