1847 in China

1847 in China
Years 1845 1846 1847 1848 1849
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Events from the year 1847 in China .

Incumbents

• Daoguang Emperor (26th year)

Viceroys

• Viceroy of Zhili — Nergingge
• Viceroy of Min-Zhe — Yang Yizeng
• Viceroy of Huguang — Yutai
• Viceroy of Shaan-Gan — ?
• Viceroy of Liangguang — Qiying
• Viceroy of Yun-Gui — Lin Zexu, Lin Xingyuan
• Viceroy of Sichuan — Qishan
• Viceroy of Liangjiang:
  • Bichang (21 January 1845 - 30 April 1847)
  • Lu Jianying (8 March 1847 - 30 April 1847, Stand-in as Provincial Governor of Jiangsu)
  • Li Xingyuan (30 April 1847 – 26 April 1849, Left office due to illness)

Events

• March — Treaty of Canton, the first treaty made between Sweden-Norway and the Chinese Empire ^[1]
• August 27 — Hong Xiuquan returned to the Thistle Mountains from Hua County, the God Worshipers numbered over 2,000. ^{[2] [3]} At this time, most God Worshippers were peasants and miners. ^[4]
• The Presbyterian Church of England founded and resolved to establish a mission in China. The Rev. William Chalmers Burns went first to Hong Kong and then to Amoy
• American Methodist Episcopal Society (North) entered the field of China

Births

• Au Fung-Chi (1847–1914), the secretary of the Hong Kong Department of Chinese Affairs

References

1. Liljevalch, Carl Fredrik. (1848). Chinas handel: industri och Statsforfattning, p. 22. , p. 22, at Google Books
2. Jonathan D. Spence, God's Chinese Son 95 (1996)
3. Franz H. Michael, The Taiping Rebellion: History 31 (1966)
4. Franz H. Michael, The Taiping Rebellion: History 31 (1966)

• Martin, Robert Montgomery. China, Political, Commercial, and Social, 2 vols. 1847.