10 Chinese Emperors (TravelBug Frank Thijssen #3)

Purpose of this Travel Bug is that it travels from The Netherlands reaches China and then travels back to my own Cache Smuggler's Bin.

The 10 emperors of the Qing dynasty were:

  1            Emperor Shunzhi (Fulin)                        1643 - 1661
  Son of Huang Taiji; In his reign, the Qing army defeated the Ming Dynasty (1368 - 1644) and moved the capital into Beijing.           

2            Emperor Kangxi (Xuanye)                    1661 - 1722
The third son of Emperor Shunzhi; One of the greatest emperors in the Qing Dynasty; His reign was the beginning of the heyday of the Qing Dynasty.           

3            Emperor Yongzheng (Yinzhen)            1722 - 1735
The fourth son of Emperor Kangxi; A fairly wise and competent emperor who maintained the prosperity of the Qing Dynasty           

4            Emperor Qianlong (Hongli)                    1735 - 1796
Son of Emperor Yongzheng; Inheriting the prosperity brought by his predecessors, his reign reached the zenith of the Qing Dynasty.           
 
5            Emperor Jiaqing (Yongyun)                  1796 - 1820
Son of Emperor Qianlong; He prosecuted the infamous corrupt official, He Shen, who used to be a favorite chancellor of Emperor Qianlong.

6            Emperor Daoguang (Minning)              1820 - 1850
Son of Emperor Jiaqing; His reign saw the outbreak of the First Opium War in 1840, from which China entered the modern history.            

7            Emperor Xianfeng (Yizhu)                     1850 - 1861
Son of Emperor Daoguang; In his reign, the Qing Dynasty apparently began to decline. The well-known Taiping Rebellion broke out in that period.           

8            Emperor Tongzhi (Zaichun)                    1861 - 1875
Son of Emperor Xianfeng and Empress Dowager Cixi; died early           

9            Emperor Guangxu (Zaitian)                    1875 - 1908
Grandson of Emperor Daoguang; a progressive emperor who tried lots of methods to save the declining Qing Dynasty           

10            Emperor Xuantong (Puyi)                     1908 - 1911
The last emperor of the Qing Dynasty and the last feudal monarch of China; He was imprisoned at Shenyang till 1959 when Chairman Mao remitted him.