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Sun Hao

Portrait of Sun Hao

Eastern Wu · Three Kingdoms · 4th ruler

吳末帝 Wú Mòdì孫晧 Sūn Hào

Wade–Giles: Wu Mo-ti · Sun Hao

Reigned 264–280 (15 years)

Reigned 15 years (264–280). Age and cause of death unknown. 4th ruler of Eastern Wu.

Facts

Reign
3 September 264 – 1 May 280 (4th ruler of Eastern Wu)
Length of reign
15 years
Born
Unknown
Died
Unknown
Age at accession
23
Age at death
Unknown
Cause of death
UnknownThe primary sources record no cause of death or clue to it
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
Sun Xiu
Era names
  • 元興 Yuánxīng (proclaimed 264)
  • 甘露 Gānlù (proclaimed 265)
  • 寶鼎 Bǎodǐng (proclaimed 266)
  • 建衡 Jiànhéng (proclaimed 269)
  • 鳳皇 Fènghuáng (proclaimed 272)
  • 天冊 Tiāncè (proclaimed 275)
  • 天璽 Tiānxǐ (proclaimed 276)
  • 天紀 Tiānjì (proclaimed 277)

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
8
General amnesties
15
Empresses installed
1
Crown princes deposed
0
Personal campaigns
0
Rebellions suppressed
4
Rebellions faced
4
Capital relocations
2