Liu Bin
Southern Han · Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms · 3rd ruler
南漢殤帝 Nán Hàn Shāngdì劉玢 Liú Bīn
Wade–Giles: Nan Han Shang-ti · Liu Pin
Reigned 942–943 (309 days)
Reigned 309 days (942–943). Assassinated at 24 (East Asian reckoning). 3rd ruler of Southern Han.
Facts
- Reign
- 10 June 942 – 15 April 943 (3rd ruler of Southern Han)
- Length of reign
- 309 days
- Born
- Unknown
- Died
- 15 April 943
- Age at accession
- 23
- Age at death
- 24
- Cause of death
- AssassinatedKilled by officials, relatives, eunuchs or others within the same regime (including poisoning)
- Path to the throne
- Installed by othersSucceeded the previous ruler of the same regime, but the choice was made by officials, the army, eunuchs, consort kin, an empress dowager or the imperial clan
- Predecessor
- Liu Yan
- Successor
- Liu Sheng
- Era names
- 光天 Guāngtiān
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
- 0
- Empresses installed
- 0
- Crown princes deposed
- 0
- Personal campaigns
- 0
- Rebellions suppressed
- 1
- Rebellions faced
- 2
- Capital relocations
- 0
Emperors of Southern Han
- 2ndLiu Yan南漢高祖 Nán Hàn Gāozǔ劉龑 Liú Yǎn917–942 · 24 years · Natural causes, age 54917–94224 yearsNatural causes, age 54
- 3rdLiu Bin南漢殤帝 Nán Hàn Shāngdì劉玢 Liú Bīn942–943 · 309 days · Assassinated, age 24942–943309 daysAssassinated, age 24
- 4thLiu Sheng南漢中宗 Nán Hàn Zhōngzōng劉晟 Liú Shèng943–958 · 15 years · Natural causes, age 39943–95815 yearsNatural causes, age 39
- 5thLiu Chang南漢後主 Nán Hàn Hòuzhǔ劉鋹 Liú Chǎng958–971 · 12 years · Natural causes, age 39958–97112 yearsNatural causes, age 39