Liu Wuzhou
Dingyang · Late Sui · 1st ruler
劉武周 Liú Wǔzhōu
Wade–Giles: Liu Wu-chou
Reigned 617–622 (5 years)
Reigned 5 years (617–622). Executed; age at death unknown. 1st ruler of Dingyang.
Facts
- Reign
- 617 – 28 August 622 (1st ruler of Dingyang)
- Length of reign
- 5 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
- Self-proclaimedFounded the titleClaimed the imperial title without receiving the throne from an earlier ruler (e.g. Emperor Gaozu of Han, Emperor Guangwu of Han, Hongwu Emperor)
- Era names
- 天興 Tiānxīng (proclaimed 617)
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
- 1
- Crown princes deposed
- 0
- Personal campaigns
- 2
- Rebellions suppressed
- 0
- Rebellions faced
- 0
- Capital relocations
- 0