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   1644Li Zicheng’s Rebellion, the Fall of the Ming and the Qing Conquestcommander

   In 1644 Li Zicheng’s peasant army took Beijing and the Chongzhen Emperor killed himself, ending the Ming. Soon Wu Sangui opened the Shanhai Pass, and the Qing army came in, drove Li out and made Beijing its capital.

People who appear alongside

• Li Zicheng1606 – 1645

  Leader of the late Ming peasant rebellions, a former courier from Shaanxi who rallied followers with the promise of equal land and no grain tax, founded the Shun in 1644 and took Beijing, ending the Ming

• Chongzhen Emperor (Sizong of Ming)1611 – 1644

  Last Ming emperor (r. 1627–1644), who took his own life on Prospect Hill behind the Forbidden City when Li Zicheng’s army entered Beijing in 1644

• Wu Sangui1612 – 1678

  Ming general who opened the Shanhai Pass to the Qing in 1644, became a feudatory prince in Yunnan and launched the Revolt of the Three Feudatories in 1673

Themes this person appears in

• Ming, Qing and Edo Japan1500 – 1800

  The age when the Ming, shaken by northern raiders, southern pirates and the silver economy, fell to Li Zicheng’s rebels, and the Manchu Qing reached its greatest extent and prosperity under Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong — as Japan was unified out of the Warring States into the Edo shogunate’s bakuhan order and closed country, and Joseon, after two great wars, met its neighbours through embassies to Edo and the Northern Learning