Hong Xiuquan - Wikipedia
WEBHong Xiuquan [b] (1 January 1814 [a] – 1 June 1864), born Hong Huoxiu [c] and with the courtesy name Renkun, was a Chinese revolutionary and religious leader who led the Taiping Rebellion against the Qing dynasty.
Hong Xiuquan | Chinese Prophet, Taiping Rebellion Leader
WEBHong Xiuquan was a Chinese religious prophet and leader of the Taiping Rebellion (1850–64), during which he declared his own new dynasty, which centred on the captured (1853) city of Nanjing. This great upheaval, in which more than 20,000,000 people are said to have been killed, drastically altered.
Hong Xiuquan: The rebel who thought he was Jesus's brother
WEBOct 17, 2012 · Hong Xiuquan, who led the 19th Century Taiping rebellion, showed Communists a peasant uprising was still possible in the modern age.
Taiping Rebellion: Causes, Definition & Death Toll | HISTORY
WEBFeb 22, 2018 · The Taiping forces were run as a cult-like group called the God Worshipping Society by self-proclaimed prophet Hong Xiuquan, and resulted in the rebels seizing the city of Nanjing for a decade.
Hong Xiuquan summary | Britannica
WEBHong Xiuquan , or Hung Hsiu-ch’üan, (born Jan. 1, 1814, Fuyuanshui, Guangdong, China—died June 1, 1864, Nanjing), Chinese religious prophet, leader of the Taiping Rebellion (1850–64).
Hong Xiuquan - New World Encyclopedia
WEBHóng Xiùquán (洪秀全, Hóng Xiùquán, Hung Hsiu-ch'üan, January 1, 1814 – June 1, 1864) was a Chinese religious prophet and leader of the Taiping Rebellion (1850–1864), which established the short-lived "Heavenly Kingdom of Taiping" over portions of southern China and altered the course of modern Chinese history.
Taiping Heavenly Kingdom - Wikipedia
WEBThe Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, or the Heavenly Kingdom of Great Peace (1851–1864), was a theocratic monarchy which sought to overthrow the Qing dynasty. The Heavenly Kingdom, or Heavenly Dynasty, [1][a] was led by Hong Xiuquan. Its capital was at Tianjing, present-day Nanjing.
Taiping Rebellion | Causes, Effects, & Facts | Britannica
WEBAug 21, 2024 · The rebellion began under the leadership of Hong Xiuquan (1814–64), a disappointed civil service examination candidate who, influenced by Christian teachings, had a series of visions and believed himself to be the son of God, the younger brother of Jesus Christ, sent to reform China.
Hong Xiuquan: the Taiping Rebellion - Biographics
WEBMay 13, 2021 · It was, simply, the deadliest war of the nineteenth century, and it was all thanks to one man: Hong Xiuquan. An ordinary village schoolmaster and aspiring civil servant, Hong was a nobody when he fell into a trance one day in 1837 and emerged convinced he was the son of God.
The Taiping Rebellion nearly toppled China's last imperial dynasty
WEBDec 10, 2020 · In 1859 Hong Rengan—a cousin of Xiuquan, and one of his earliest recruits—seized control of the movement and set out to modernize its government along Western democratic lines.
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