* 428 A. D .: Emperor Mingyuan of Northern Wei marries his daughter, Princess Shiping ( 始平公主 ), to Helian Chang, Emperor of Xia.

* Feng, Chinese empress and regent of Northern Wei ( b. 442 )

He marries Feng Qing, she becomes empress of the Northern Wei Dynasty.

* Yu, empress of Northern Wei ( b. 488 )

* Li Ezi, Chinese empress of Northern Zhou ( d. 588 )

* Yu, empress of Northern Wei ( d. 507 )

* Feng Run, Chinese empress of Northern Wei

* Lou Zhaojun, empress dowager of Northern Qi ( d. 562 )

* Gao, Chinese empress of Northern Wei

* May 17 – Hu, empress and regent of Northern Wei

* Empress Yuan Leshang, an empress of the Northern Zhou Dynasty in China, later became a Buddhist nun who lived as a recluse, dying at an unknown date ( yet was still alive during the reign of Emperor Taizong of Tang, which ended in 649 )

In this time appeared the Apocalypse of Daniel, a Syriac text redacted during the rule of the empress Irene of Byzantium wherein wars between the Arabs, the Byzantines and the Northern peoples were prophesied.

* Feng, Chinese empress and regent of the Northern Wei Dynasty ( d. 490 )

alt = Christian pendant of Empress Maria ( empress ) | Maria, daughter of Stilicho and wife of Honorius. However, in 405, Stilicho was distracted by a fresh invasion of Northern Italy.

* Empress Gao ( Xuanwu ), empress of the Chinese / Xianbei dynasty Northern Wei

* Empress Gao ( Xiaowu ), empress of the Chinese / Xianbei dynasty Northern Wei

* Yifu, empress of Western Wei ( d. 540 )

* Yujiulü, Chinese empress of Western Wei ( d. 540 )

* Yifu, empress of Western Wei ( b. 510 )

* Yujiulü, empress of Western Wei ( b. 525 )

* Empress Wende, empress of Cao Wei ( b. 184 )

He therefore formed friendships with Emperor Ping's Wei uncles, and told Consort Wei to offer assurances to Wang Mang that she would not act as Emperor Ai's mother and grandmother did, trying to become an empress dowager.

Again issuing an imperial edict accusing Sima Liang of treason, the empress and Sima Wei killed Sima Liang ( Sima Wei's grand-uncle ) and Wei Quan.

Empress Wei retained power as empress dowager and regent, and she, while consolidating her power, were apprehensive about Emperor Zhongzong's brother Li Dan the Prince of Xiang, himself a former emperor, and his sister Princess Taiping.

By the time that Emperor Wuzong took the throne, his mother Consort Wei had already died, and he posthumously honored her as an empress dowager.

His mother was a concubine from the Wei ( 韋 ) family who later became empress dowager, and is known posthumously as Empress Xianren ( 顯仁皇后 ) ( 1080 – 1159 ).

Real power was in the hands of his empress consort, Empress Wei and her lover Wu Sansi ( Wu Zetian's nephew ).

Emperor Zhongzong, in spring 684, created his wife Crown Princess Wei empress, and he wanted to make his father-in-law, Wei Xuanzhen ( 韋玄貞 ) Shizhong ( 侍中 ) – the head of the examination bureau of government and a post considered one for a chancellor.

Consort Wei was made empress several years later when she bore Emperor Wu his first son, after giving birth to three princesses.

Book of Sui reported that when Emperor Taiwu of Northern Wei overthrew Juqu Mujian's Northern Liang on October 18, 439, Ashina's 500 families fled to the Rouran Khaganate.

From the middle and late Eastern Han to the early Wei and Jin dynasties, the net growth of ancient Chinese science and technology experienced a peak ( second only to that of the Northern Song dynasty )... Han studies of the Confucian classics, which for a long time had hindered the socialization of science, were declining.

According to the Continued Biographies of Eminent Monks ( 645 ) by Daoxuan, Shaolin Monastery was built on the north side of Shaoshi, the central peak of Mount Song, one of the Sacred Mountains of China, by Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty in 477.

The Jiaqing Chongxiu Yitongzhi ( 1843 ) specifies that this monastery, located in the province of Henan, was built in the 20th year of the Taihe era of the Northern Wei Dynasty, that is, the monastery was built in 495.

The earliest record of an Uyghur tribe is from the Northern Wei Dynasty ( 386-534 AD ).

This Buddhist Stele | stela from China, Northern Wei period, was built in the early 6th century.

* Xian Wen Di, Retired Emperor of Northern Wei, is murdered by Empress Feng.

* Xian Wen Di, Chinese Emperor of Northern Wei ( b. 454 )

* The reign of Chang Guang Wang, ruler of Northern Wei, ends.

* Xiao Zhuang Di, emperor of Northern Wei ( b. 507 )

Wen Cheng Di, age 12, becomes the new emperor of Northern Wei.

* Yu Zhong, official and regent of Northern Wei ( d. 518 )

* Nan ' an Yinwang, emperor of Northern Wei

* Tai Wu Di, emperor of Northern Wei ( b. 408 )

* Tuoba Huang, prince of Northern Wei ( b. 428 )

Territories of the Northern Wei ( blue ) and Liu Song Dynasty | Liu Song ( Red ) states ( 440 )

* Dynasties of the North and South: The Chinese Empire is unified by the Northern Wei Dynasty.

The Northern state will have three competing dynasties — Northern Wei, Northern Qi and Northern Liang, while the Southern state is dominated by the Song ( or Liu Song ) Dynasty.

* Wen Cheng Di, emperor of the Northern Wei Dynasty ( d. 465 )

* Tai Wu Di, emperor of the Northern Wei Dynasty ( d. 452 )