Events from the year 1849 in China.
Incumbents
- Daoguang Emperor (29th year)
Viceroys
- Viceroy of Zhili — Nergingge
- Viceroy of Min-Zhe — Liu Yunke
- Viceroy of Huguang — Yutai
- Viceroy of Shaan-Gan — Qishan (Acting Viceroy)
- Viceroy of Liangguang — Xu Guangjin
- Viceroy of Yun-Gui — Cheng Yucai
- Viceroy of Sichuan:
- Qishan
- Xu Zechun
- Viceroy of Liangjiang — Li Xingyuan
Events
- 6 April — Shanghai French Concession created
- Jianmoda Monastery built in modern Qinghai
- August — The Passaleão incident, a conflict between Portugal and China over Macau in August 1849[1]
- 28–29 September — Battle of Tysami, a military engagement involving a warship from the British China Squadron and the Chinese pirates of Chui A-poo[2]
Births
- Lu Zhongyi (18 May 1849 – 26 February 1925) was the seventeenth patriarch of Yiguan Dao
- Hong Tianguifu (23 November 1849 – 18 November 1864), son of Hong Xiuquan, the second and last king of the Heavenly Kingdom of Taiping
- Sir Boshan Wei Yuk, CMG JP (1849 – 16 December 1921) a prominent Hong Kong businessman and member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong.
- Wong Nai Siong (1849—1924) as a Chinese revolutionary leader and educator from Minqing county in Fuzhou, Fujian province, China.
Deaths
References
- ^ Fei, Chengkang (1996). Macao: 400 years. Publishing House of Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences.
- ^ Wombwell, A. James (2010). The Long War Against Piracy: Historical Trends. Fort Leavenworth, Kansas: Combat Studies Institute Press. ISBN 978-1907521454.
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