The existing reverence for Centrality must have been still further stimulated toward the close of the second century B.C., when the Han Emperor Wu Ti ordered the dynastic color changed to yellow -- which symbolized the Center among the traditional Five Directions -- and took 5 as the dynastic number, believing that he would thus place himself, his imperial family, and the nation under the most auspicious influences.

** Emperor Ai of Han ( 27 BC – 1 BC )

Though the unified reign of the First Qin Emperor lasted only 12 years, he managed to subdue great parts of what constitutes the core of the Han Chinese homeland and to unite them under a tightly centralized Legalist government seated at Xianyang ( close to modern Xi ' an ).

Emperor Guangwu reinstated the Han Dynasty with the support of landholding and merchant families at Luoyang, east of Xi ' an.

Emperor Wu of Han ( r. 141 BC-87 BC ) went to war with the Dayuan for this reason, since the Dayuan were hording a massive amount of tall, strong, Central Asian bred horses in the Hellenized – Greek region of Fergana ( established slightly earlier by Alexander the Great ).

Chiang Kai-shek considered both the Han Chinese and all the minority peoples of China, the Five Races Under One Union, as descendants of Huangdi, the Yellow Emperor and semi mythical founder of the Chinese nation, and belonging to the Chinese Nation Zhonghua Minzu and he introduced this into Kuomintang ideology, which was propagated into the educational system of the Republic of China.

For more than two thousand years, since the time of Emperor Wu of Han, the month containing the winter solstice has almost always been the 11th month.

According to the Han Shu 21a, 973, for the moment of unification the Middle kingdoms had 6 different calendars: those of the mythological progenitors Yellow Emperor ( 黄帝曆 ) and Zhuanxu ( 顓頊曆 ); of the dynasties Xia ( 夏曆 ), Yin ( 殷曆 ), and Zhou ( 周曆 ), and of the Zhou Dynasty state of Lu ( 鲁曆 ).

The Emperor Wu of the Western Han dynasty introduced reforms that have governed the Chinese calendar ever since.

The " Heshang Gong Version " is named after the legendary Heshang Gong ( " Riverside Sage ") who supposedly lived during the reign ( 202-157 BC ) of Emperor Wen of Han.

* 220 – Cao Pi forces Emperor Xian of Han to abdicated the Han Dynasty throne.

* 202 BC – coronation ceremony of Liu Bang as Emperor Gaozu of Han takes place, initiating four centuries of the Han Dynasty's rule over China.

As Confucianism became the preferred philosophy of later Chinese dynasties, starting from the Emperor Wu of Han, Mohism and other non-Confucian philosophical schools of thought were suppressed.

It provides an overview of the history of China covering more than two thousand years from the legendary Yellow Emperor to Sima's contemporary Emperor Han Wudi ( 漢武帝 ).

* 195 BC – Emperor Gaozu of Han ( b. 256 )

) raided and defeated the Xiongnu, killing 2000, after having received generous gifts from Emperor Guangwu of Han.

* 141 BC – Liu Che, posthumously known as Emperor Wu of Han, assumes the throne over the Han Dynasty of China.

* 313 – Emperor Jin Huidi is executed by Liu Cong, ruler of the Xiongnu state ( Han Zhao ).

He is regarded as the father of Chinese historiography for his highly praised work, Records of the Grand Historian, a " Jizhuanti "- style general history of China, covering more than two thousand years from the Yellow Emperor to Emperor Wu of Han.

His father, Sima Tan, served as the Prefect of the Grand Scribes of Emperor Wu of Han ( Emperor " Han Wudi ").

After his travels, Sima was chosen to be a Palace Attendant in the government, whose duties were to inspect different parts of the country with Emperor Han Wudi.

Emperor Han Wudi interpreted Sima ’ s defence of Li Ling as an attack on his brother-in-law, who had also fought against the Xiongnu without much success, and sentenced Sima to death.

* Emperor Han Wudi of China of the Han dynasty launches his first offensive into the northern steppe.

* May 17 – Emperor Jin Wudi, founder of the Western Jin Dynasty, dies after a 25-year reign.

* War of the Eight Princes: After the death of Emperor Sima Yan ( Jin Wudi ) a civil war breaks out among the princes and dukes of the Jin Dynasty.

* 120 BCE: The Chinese Emperor Han Wudi ( 156 – 87 BCE ) receives two golden statues of the Buddha, according to inscriptions in the Mogao Caves, Dunhuang.

Dunhuang was established as a frontier garrison outpost by the Han Dynasty Emperor Wudi to protect against the Xiongnu in 111 BC.

Murals in Mogao Caves in Dunhuang describe the Emperor Han Wudi ( 156-87 BCE ) worshipping Buddhist statues, explaining them as " golden men brought in 120 BCE by a great Han general in his campaigns against the nomads ", although there is no other mention of Han Wudi worshipping the Buddha in Chinese historical literature.

Fresco describing Emperor Han Wudi ( 156-87 BCE ) worshipping two statues of the Buddha, Mogao Caves, Dunhuang, c. 8th century CE

From another direction, Chinese historical sources and mural paintings in the Tarim Basin city of Dunhuang accurately describe the travels of the explorer and ambassador Zhang Qian to Central Asia as far as Bactria around 130 BCE, and the same murals describe the Emperor Han Wudi ( 156-87 BCE ) worshipping Buddhist statues, explaining them as " golden men brought in 120 BCE by a great Han general in his campaigns against the nomads.

Emperor Wudi responded by giving Li Guangli a much larger army along with a huge number of oxen, donkeys and camels to carry supplies.

Emperor Wu ( 武帝, Wudi ) may refer to a number of Chinese emperors:

The grouping of the five mountains appeared during the Warring States Period, and the term of Wu Yue ( Five Summit ) was made famous during the reign of Emperor Wudi of the Western Han Dynasty 140-87 BC, and the worship of the five mountains has since ingrained in Chinese culture for the next two thousand years.

In 124 BC, the Emperor Wudi established the Imperial Academy, the curriculum of which was the Five Classics of Confucius.

The building was named after the ancient phrase of Hakkō ichiu ( literally " eight cords, one roof "), which had been attributed to Emperor Jimmu and, since 1928, has been espoused by the Imperial government as an expression of Japanese expansionism, as it envisioned to the unification of the world ( the " eight corners of the world ") under the Emperor's " sacred rule ", a goal that was considered imperative to all Japanese subjects, as Jimmu, finding five races in Japan, had made them all as " brothers of one family.

Although the Neijing has long been attributed to the mythical Yellow Emperor ( twenty-7th century BC ), Chinese scholars started doubting this attribution as early as the 11th century and now usually date the Neijing to the late Warring States period ( 5th century-221 BC ).

It may be noted that all the Jain monuments of Rajasthan and Gujarat, with unknown builders are also attributed to Emperor Samprati

The Man ' yōshū includes poems attributed to emperors and empresses, including " Climbing Kagu-yama and looking upon the land ," which is said to have been composed by Emperor Jomei:

The earliest surviving account of St. Catherine's life comes over 500 years after the traditional date of her martyrdom, in the monologium attributed to Emperor Basil I ( 866 ), although the rediscovery of her relics at Saint Catherine's Monastery, Mount Sinai was about 800, and presumably implies an existing cult at that date ( the common name of the monastery developed after the discovery ).

No evidence of it being used in a modern sense in Ancient Greek, but find it in Byzantine documents from the 6th century onwards, and most notably in the work attributed to Emperor Leo VI the Wise of Byzantium.

For most of the 20th century, the establishment of the themes was attributed to the Emperor Heraclius ( r. 610 – 641 ), during the last of the Byzantine – Sassanid Wars.

Since Legenda Aurea still provided no connections whatsoever with sentimental love, appropriate lore has been embroidered in modern times to portray Valentine as a priest who refused an unattested law attributed to Roman Emperor Claudius II, allegedly ordering that young men remain single.

Twining also notes the various allegorical meanings attributed to the three crowns of the papal tiara, but concludes that " it seems more likely that the symbolism is suggested by the idea that took shape in the 13th and 14th centuries that the Emperor was crowned with three crowns -- the silver crown of Germany at Aix-la-Chapelle, the iron crown of Lombardy at Milan or Monza and the golden imperial crown at Rome and therefore the Pope, too, should wear three crowns.

Many of the earlier papal tiaras ( most notably the tiaras of Pope Julius II and that attributed to Pope Saint Silvester ) were destroyed, dismantled or seized by invaders ( most notably by Berthier's army in 1798 ), or by popes themselves ; Pope Clement VII had all the tiaras and papal regalia melted down in 1527 to raise the 400, 000 ducats ransom demanded by the occupying army of Holy Roman Emperor Charles V. Over twenty silver tiaras exist, of which the earliest, the sole survivor of 1798, was made for Pope Gregory XIII in the 16th century.

The introduction of the tulip to Europe is usually attributed to Ogier de Busbecq, the ambassador of Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor to the Sultan of Turkey, who sent the first tulip bulbs and seeds to Vienna in 1554 from the Ottoman Empire.

* Anonymous-Alphonsus Emperor of Germany published ( wrongly attributed to George Chapman )

The emperor Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor has been attributed to be the “ saviour of church music ” because he said polyphony ought not to be driven out of the church.

These similarities might be attributed to Buddhist missionaries sent as early as Emperor Ashoka around 250 BCE in many of the Greek Seleucid kingdoms that existed then and then later became the same regions that Christianity began.

An extraordinary piece of information ( which was immediately contradicted ) was printed by L ' Intransigeant ( 12 December-14 December ); it was attributed to the confidences of Pauffin, and it dealt with the " ultra-secret " dossier ( the photographs of letters from and to Emperor William about Dreyfus ).

The cruelties attributed to him pale somewhat in comparison with Emperor Andronikos I.

The neighborhood, which is now covered with vineyards, contains remains of many Roman villas, one of which is traditionally attributed to the Emperor Antoninus Pius.

But earlier works, especially in Volume I, lacked such fixed form and were attributed to Emperor Yūryaku.

* Matins opens with what is called the " Royal Beginning ", so called because the psalms ( 19 and 20 ) are attributed to King David and speak of the Messiah, the " king of kings "; in former times, the ektenia ( litany ) also mentioned the Emperor by name.

The same title, Emperor, came to identify their role as rulers of the newly named Austrian Empire that the Habsburgs attributed so from 11 August 1804.

Their conversion to Islam is attributed to Sultan ( Emperor ) Mahmud of Ghazni by sources such as Ibbetson and Haroon Rashid.

A torii at the top bears calligraphy attributed to Emperor Go-Mizunoo.

* Terme di Cellomaio ; attributed to Emperor Caracalla, who had erected immediately after killing his brother Geta as a gift to appease the souls of the soldiers.

In the 13th century the patronage was attributed to one of the several saints by the name of Magnus who share a feast day on 19 August, probably St Magnus of Anagni ( bishop and martyr, who was slain in the persecution of the Emperor Decius in the middle of the 3rd century ).