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Cao Pi

Portrait of Cao Pi

Cao Wei · Three Kingdoms · 1st ruler

魏文帝 Wèi Wéndì曹丕 Cáo Pī

Wade–Giles: Wei Wen-ti · Ts'ao P'i

Reigned 220–226 (5 years)

Reigned 5 years (220–226). Died at 40 (East Asian reckoning) of natural causes. 1st ruler of Cao Wei.

Facts

Reign
10 December 220 – 29 June 226 (1st ruler of Cao Wei)
Length of reign
5 years
Born
187
Died
29 June 226
Age at accession
34
Age at death
40
Cause of death
Natural causesNatural death or illness (including old age)
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)
Successor
Cao Rui
Era names
  • 黃初 Huángchū (proclaimed 220)

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
1
Empresses installed
1
Crown princes deposed
0
Personal campaigns
3
Rebellions suppressed
2
Rebellions faced
2
Capital relocations
0