Gengshi Emperor
Xuan Han · Xin to early Eastern Han · 1st ruler
玄漢更始帝 Xuán Hàn Gèngshǐdì劉玄 Liú Xuán
Wade–Giles: Hsüan Han Keng-shih-ti · Liu Hsüan
Reigned 23–25 (2 years)
Reigned 2 years (23–25). Executed; age at death unknown. 1st ruler of Xuan Han.
Facts
- Reign
- 11 March 23 – 25 (1st ruler of Xuan Han)
- Length of reign
- 2 years
- Born
- Unknown
- Died
- Unknown
- Age at accession
- Unknown
- Age at death
- Unknown
- Cause of death
- ExecutedPut to death by a hostile power, a successor regime or a conqueror, as a public act
- Path to the throne
- Proclaimed by supportersFounded the titleDid not receive the throne from an earlier ruler, and did not claim it on their own initiative but was set up by others (e.g. the emperors of the Southern Ming)
- Era names
- 更始 Gèngshǐ (proclaimed 23)
Ages are given in East Asian reckoning (sui): a person is one year old at birth and gains a year at each New Year, so the figure is one or two years higher than the Western age.
During the reign
Number of times each event is recorded in the official histories. How each item is counted
- Era name changes
- 1
- General amnesties
- 1
- Empresses installed
- 0
- Crown princes deposed
- 0
- Personal campaigns
- 0
- Rebellions suppressed
- 2
- Rebellions faced
- 4
- Capital relocations
- 2