Wang Shichong
Zheng · Late Sui · 1st ruler
王世充 Wáng Shìchōng
Wade–Giles: Wang Shih-ch'ung
Reigned 619–621 (2 years)
Reigned 2 years (619–621). Assassinated; age at death unknown. 1st ruler of Zheng.
Facts
- Reign
- 25 May 619 – 4 June 621 (1st ruler of Zheng)
- Length of reign
- 2 years
- Born
- Unknown
- Died
- 621
- 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
- Yang Tong
- Era names
- 開明 Kāimíng (proclaimed 619)
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
- 2
- Empresses installed
- 0
- Crown princes deposed
- 0
- Personal campaigns
- 2
- Rebellions suppressed
- 0
- Rebellions faced
- 0
- Capital relocations
- 0