Hou Jing
Han (Hou Jing) · Northern and Southern Dynasties · 1st ruler
侯景 Hóu Jǐng
Wade–Giles: Hou Ching
Reigned 552 (146 days)
Reigned 146 days (552). Assassinated; age at death unknown. 1st ruler of Han (Hou Jing).
Facts
- Reign
- 1 January 552 – 26 May 552 (1st ruler of Han (Hou Jing))
- Length of reign
- 146 days
- Born
- Unknown
- Died
- 26 May 552
- Age at accession
- Unknown
- Age at death
- Unknown
- Cause of death
- AssassinatedKilled by officials, relatives, eunuchs or others within the same regime (including poisoning)
- Path to the throne
- Abdication from another dynastyReceived the throne from an emperor of another family or regime in a change of dynasty led by the new emperor (e.g. Cao Pi, Yang Jian, Zhao Kuangyin)
- Predecessor
- Xiao Dong
- Era names
- 太始 Tàishǐ (proclaimed 552)
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
- 1
- Rebellions faced
- 3
- Capital relocations
- 0