* June – The Han Chinese army under Dou Xian ( d. 92 ), allied with the southern Xiongnu, is victorious over the Northern Xiongnu in the Battle of Ikh Bayan.

* Dou Xian, Chinese politician

At the Battle of Ikh Bayan in 89 CE, Dou Xian ( d. 92 CE ) defeated the Northern Xiongnu chanyu who then retreated into the Altai Mountains.

Dou Xian (; Wade-Giles: Tou Hsien, d. AD 92 ) was a prominent Chinese general and statesman of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

However, his father Dou Xun fell into disgrace and died in 70, leaving Dou Xian an orphan.

:" In the first Yongyuan year CE, during the reign of Emperor He, the General-in-Chief Dou Xian had a great victory over the Xiongnu.

The biography of Dou Xian can be found in Chapter LIII of the Hou Hanshu.

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Ban later served as a high-ranking literary official under Dou Xian, the brother of Emperor Zhang's empress.

The regents of the young emperor, Empress Dowager Dou and her brother Dou Xian, favoured a more militaristic policy to the Northern Xiongnu problem.

At the Battle of Ikh Bayan in 89 CE, Dou Xian defeated the Xiongnu shanyu who then retreated into the Altai Mountains.

Her family members, particularly her brother Dou Xian ( 竇憲 ), became extremely powerful, until they were toppled in a coup d ' etat by Emperor He, in 92.

Empress Dou's brothers Dou Xian and Dou Du ( 竇篤 ) effectively took over in the power structure — the first time in Han history that the empress ' clan, rather than the empress dowager's clan, was the powerful consort clan.

Her brothers Dou Xian, Dou Du, Dou Jing ( 竇景 ), and Dou Gui ( 竇瑰 ) all became powerful officials, even though they had relatively menial titles.

Of her brothers, Dou Gui alone was humble and unassuming, but the other three, particularly Dou Xian, were arrogant, using their connection to the empress dowager to intimidate other officials into submission.

* June 4 – Wang Shichong surrenders to Li Shimin following Dou Jiande's defeat.

* May 28 – Battle of Hulao: Li Shimin defeats the numerically superior army of Dou Jiande.

* June 4 – Wang Shichong surrenders to Li Shimin following Dou Jiande's defeat.

* February – The Chinese Han Dynasty launches a major campaign against the Xiongnu, whom they confront in the Battle of Yiwulu in the Kumul oasis, an ultimate Han military victory led by General Dou Gu ( d. 88 ).

Fighting a numerically superior army, he defeated Dou Jiande ( 573 – 621 ) at Luoyang in the Battle of Hulao on May 28, 621.

With the aid of the eunuch Zheng Zhong ( d. 107 CE ), Emperor He ( r. 88 – 105 CE ) had Empress Dowager Dou ( d. 97 CE ) put under house arrest and her clan stripped of power.

* Gerard Dou, 1613 – 1675, painter.

There were also other types of triumvirates during the Eastern Han ; for example, at the onset of the reign of Emperor Ling of Han ( r. 168 – 189 ), the General-in-Chief Dou Wu ( d. 168 ), the Grand Tutor Chen Fan ( d. 168 ), and another prominent statesman Hu Guang ( 91 – 172 ) formed a triumvirate nominally in charge of the Privy Secretariat, when in fact it was a regent triumvirate overseeing the affairs of state and Emperor Ling.

5566 as a group has hosted TTV's Young Guns ( 少年特攻隊 / Shao Nian Te Gong Dui ) ( 2002 – 2007 ) and CTS's Dou Zhen Ju Le Bu ( 鬥陣俱樂部 ) ( 2004 – 2005 ).

Gerrit Dou ( 7 April 1613 – 9 February 1675 ), also known as Gerard and Douw or Dow, was a Dutch Golden Age painter, whose small, highly-polished paintings are typical of the Leiden fijnschilders.

Jongh, 1968 – 1969 De Jongh ´ s erotic interpretations can be disputed to hold in the paintings by Gerard Dou because he depicts his dead chicks and fury hares not only with seductive maidservants, but also as props in motifs with old servants, or in domestic household scenes, such as the Young Mother.

Godfried Schalcken was born in 1643 at Dordrecht, and he studied under Samuel van Hoogstraten in Dordrecht before he moved to Leiden, into the studio of Gerard Dou ( 1613 – 1675 ), one of Rembrandt's most famous pupils.

" Dou Jiande's dilemma: Logistics, strategy, and state " in Warfare in Chinese History, 77 – 105, edited by Hans van de Ven.

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( Of the seven chancellors at the time, five – Dou Huaizhen, Xiao Zhizhong, Cen Xi, Cui Shi, and Lu Xiangxian – were made chancellors at her recommendation, although Lu was not considered a member of her party.

Although Dou won prestige for two successful campaigns against the Xiongnu, in AD 92 he was suspected by Emperor He of Han of plotting a rebellion and forced to commit suicide.

Yuan An died in 92 and a few months later the Dou clan fell in coup d ' état staged by Emperor He.

After he was imprisoned and executed in the year 92 because of his association with the family of Empress Dowager Dou, Ban Zhao then finished the work.

In the first 9 days of the lunar 9th month festival, an oil lamp of 9 branches may also be lit to honour both the Northern Dipper and 2 other assistant stars ( collectively known as the Nine Emperor Stars ), sons of Dou Mu appointed by the Taoist Trinity ( the Three Pure Ones ) to hold the Books of Life and Death of humanity.

Following Huan's death, Dou Wu and the Grand Tutor Chen Fan ( 陳蕃 ) ( d. 168 CE ) attempted a coup d ' état against the eunuchs Hou Lan ( d. 172 CE ), Cao Jie ( d. 181 CE ), and Wang Fu ( 王甫 ).

** The Injustice to Dou E ( 竇娥冤 ， 窦娥冤 Dou E Yuan ), by Guan Hanqing ( 關漢卿 ， 关汉卿 )

* Prince of Xia, Dou Jiande ( 573-621 ), Chinese warlord during the turbulent transition from the Sui Dynasty to the Tang Dynasty

The Injustice to Dou E ( 竇娥冤 Dou E Yuan ), also known as The Injustice Done to Tou Ngo and Snow in Midsummer, is a Chinese drama by Guan Hanqing written during the Yuan Dynasty.

After the ghost of Dou E revealed the injustice to her father-Dou Tianzhang ( 竇天章 ), who eventually became a liangjunliefangshi inspector ( 兩淮廉訪使 )-Inspector Dou killed the corrupt officials and Zhang Lür.

Meanwhile, it was said that Princess Taiping, Dou, Cen, Xiao, and Cui ; along with other officials Xue Ji, Li Jin ( 李晉 ) the Prince of Xinxing ( a grandson of Li Deliang ( 李德良 ), a cousin of Tang's founder Emperor Gaozu ), Li You ( 李猷 ), Jia Yingfu ( 賈膺福 ), Tang Jun ( 唐晙 ); the generals Chang Yuankai ( 常元楷 ), Li Ci ( 李慈 ), and Li Qin ( 李欽 ); and the monk Huifan ( 惠範 ), were plotting to overthrow Emperor Xuanzong.

* Grand Empress Dowager Dou ( 141 BC-135 BC ), during the reign of Emperor Wu

In 179 BC, after some hesitation ( during which he, apparently influenced by the theory of chanrang ( 禪讓 ), thought that maybe it would be more proper for him to find the wisest person in the empire and offer the throne to him, or that he should consider offering the throne to his uncle Liu Jiao ( 劉交 ), the Prince of Chu ; his cousin Liu Pi ( 劉濞 ), the Prince of Wu ; or his younger brother Liu Chang ( 劉長 ), the Prince of Huainan ), he created his oldest son Liu Qi the Crown Prince and Prince Qi's mother, Consort Dou, Empress.