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Zhu Can

Portrait of Zhu Can

Chu (Zhu Can) · Late Sui · 1st ruler

朱粲 Zhū Càn

Wade–Giles: Chu Ts'an

Reigned 618–619 (201 days)

Reigned 201 days (618–619). Executed; age at death unknown. 1st ruler of Chu (Zhu Can).

Facts

Reign
November 618 – 21 May 619 (1st ruler of Chu (Zhu Can))
Length of reign
201 days
Born
Unknown
Died
5 June 621
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
  • 昌達 Chāngdá

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
1
Rebellions suppressed
1
Rebellions faced
1
Capital relocations
0