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1356Zhu Yuanzhang, leader of the rebel Red Turbans Movement and future Ming Hongwu Emperor, takes control of Nanjing.
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1368 - 1398Reign of the Hongwu Emperor, founder of the Ming Dynasty in China.
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1368 - 1644Reign of the Ming Dynasty in China.
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23 Jan 1368Zhu Yuanzhang, founder of the Ming Dynasty, declares himself Emperor of China, taking the reign name Hongwu.
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1370Civil service entrance examinations are reintroduced in China.
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1371 - 1433Life of the great Chinese mariner and explorer Zheng He.
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1398 - 1402Reign of the Jianwen Emperor of the Chinese Ming Dynasty.
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1401Japan joins the tribute system of China's Ming Dynasty.
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1403 - 1424Reign of the Yongle Emperor (aka Chengzu) of the Ming Dynasty.
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1405 - 1433The mariner and explorer Zheng He makes seven voyages from China to India, Arabia and East Africa.
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1407Work begins on the Forbidden City in Beijing.
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1420The Yongle Emperor of the Ming Dynasty establishes the Eastern Depot, a secret service branch of the state bureaucracy.
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1421Yongle Emperor of the Ming Dynasty moves the capital of China from Nanjing to Beijing.
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1424Death of the Yongle Emperor of the Ming Dynasty while on campaign against the Mongols.
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1472 - 1529Life of the Chinese philosopher Wang Yangming.
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c. 1557The Chinese Ming Dynasty grants the Portuguese a trading base of their own at Macao.
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1557Ming dynasty forces capture the wako pirate chief Wang Chih.
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1573 - 1620Emperor Wanli of the Ming Dynasty reigns in China.
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1598The popualr Chinese play The Peony Pavilion by Tang Xianzu is written.
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1604The Donglin Academy is founded in Ming Dynasty China.
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1628 - 1644Reign of Chongzhen, the last Ming Dynasty emperor.
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1644A rebel army led by Li Zicheng attacks Beijing, the Ming Dynasty's capital.
