Ming Dynasty

  • 1628 BCE

    Someone leads an revolt

    Li Zheng rallies peasants with his promise to divide land equally and eliminating grain taxes. He lead a peasant army revolt against the Ming Dynasty.
  • 1449 BCE

    Emperor Zhengtong is captured and held for ransom

    After the battle Tumu fortress,Mongolia was very surprised that the caught emperor Zhengtonng and he was released 4 years later with no ransom paid.
  • 1420 BCE

    Beijing is made capital

    After the build of the forbidden city,Beijing becomes the new capital of china.
  • 1415 BCE

    The Grand Canal

    The 1,100 mile water route(River) was built for trade.
  • 1408 BCE

    Ming Dynasty creates the Yongle canon is complete

    Enormous encyclopedia about china called Yongle canon.It has 23,000 volumes with about 370 million words.
  • 1406 BCE

    The making of a forbidden city

    Construction on an imperial palace,Known as the forbidden city.Took 1 million works and 100,000 artisans to work on the palace witch is now a Museum in Beijing
  • 1368 BCE

    Zhu takes control

    Declares himself as Ming dynasty emperor and starts to construct the wall of china.
  • 1367 BCE

    Zhu Yangzhang army eliminates the military forces of the Yuan Dynasty

    Zhu's army battles for 7 years and defeats Yuan dynasty and builds a military base in china.
  • The Ming Dynasty floods Kaifeng

    In an effort to stop Li Zheng from taking over.The Ming Dynasty floods Kaifeng with water from the yellow river.Almost had 600,000 residents killed,Making it the worst act in history.
  • Ming Dynasty comes to an end

    They started losing power and the government went into corruption.So Emperor Chongzhen commits suicide and Shun Dynasty takes control of china.