Liu Yao

Facts

Reign

318 – 329 (5th ruler of Han Zhao)

Length of reign

10 years

Born

Unknown

Died

329

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

• 光初 Guāngchū (proclaimed 318)

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

6

Empresses installed

3

Crown princes deposed

0

Personal campaigns

6

Rebellions suppressed

2

Rebellions faced

2

Capital relocations

1