Events from the year 1856 in China.
Incumbents
- Xianfeng Emperor (6th year)
Viceroys
- Viceroy of Zhili — Guiliang
- Viceroy of Min-Zhe — Wang Yide
- Viceroy of Huguang — Guanwen
- Viceroy of Shaan-Gan — Yi Tang then Yue Bin
- Viceroy of Liangguang — Ye Mingchen
- Viceroy of Yun-Gui — Hengchun
- Viceroy of Sichuan — Huang Zonghan then Wu Zhenyu
- Viceroy of Liangjiang — Yiliang
Events
- Nian Rebellion
- Second Opium War begins
- Authorities in Canton order attacks on Thirteen Factories, which are subsequently destroyed in a fire
- Merchant ship Arrow seized by Qing authorities
- Battle of Canton (1856)
- Capture of the French Folly Fort
- Battle of the Bogue (1856)
- November — Battle of the Barrier Forts
- Taiping Rebellion
- Battle of Jiangnan (1856), Qing forces twice fail to re-take Nanjing
- Tianjing incident, internal conflict within the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom
- Miao Rebellion (1854–73)
- Panthay Rebellion
- Red Turban Rebellion (1854–1856) ends
Deaths
- Yang Xiuqing in Tianjing
- Jirhangga, Qing commander in Battle of Jiangnan (1860)
- Xiang Rong, Qing commander in Battle of Jiangnan (1860)
- Hu Jiumei, Chinese rebel in the Taiping Rebellion
References
- ^ Perry, Elizabeth J. (1980). Rebels and Revolutionaries in North China, 1845-1945. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press.
- ^ Michael Dillon (15 September 2012). China: A Modern History. I.B.Tauris. pp. 85–. ISBN 978-1-78076-381-1.
- ^ R. Keith Schoppa (2002). Revolution and its past: identities and change in modern Chinese history. Prentice Hall. p. 79. ISBN 0-13-022407-3. Retrieved 2010-06-28.
- ^ Fairbank, John King; Twitchett, Denis Crispin, eds. (1980). The Cambridge History of China. Cambridge University Press. p. 213. ISBN 0521220297. Retrieved 24 April 2014.