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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 Wu consolidated and extended the Chinese empire by pushing back the Xiongnu into the steppes of modern Inner Mongolia, wresting from them the modern areas of Gansu, Ningxia and Qinghai.
The dynasty continued to flourish under Empress Wu Zetian, the only empress regnant in Chinese history, and reached its zenith during the reign of Emperor Xuanzong, who oversaw an empire that stretched from the Pacific to the Aral Sea with at least 50 million people.
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.
The Emperor Wu of the Western Han dynasty introduced reforms that have governed the Chinese calendar ever since.
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.
* 141 BC Liu Che, posthumously known as Emperor Wu of Han, assumes the throne over the Han Dynasty of China.
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 ").
Emperor Wu of Han sent Zhang Qian to explore the west world and to discover other confederates against Xiongnu.
* Emperor Wu of Han, considered one of the greatest emperors throughout the History of China
* Emperor Wu of Northern Zhou
Emperor Emperor Wu of Liu Song | Wu Di ( 420 422 )
* Emperor Wu of Han (" Martial Emperor ") starts to rule.
* The Chinese under Emperor Wu of Han besiege and capture Kokand of Dayuan in the Hellenistic Ferghana Valley, during a 2 year war with the Yuezhi.
* Peasant revolts under Emperor Wu of Han.
Emperor Emperor Wu of Liang | Wu Di ( 502 549 )

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

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A bas-relief of a soldier and horse with saddle and stirrup s, from the tomb of Chinese Emperor Taizong of Tang ( r. 626-649 ), c. 650
The oldest confirmed written mention of dominoes in China comes from the Former Events in Wulin ( i. e. the capital Hangzhou ) written by the Yuan Dynasty ( 1271 1368 ) author Zhou Mi ( 1232 1298 ), who listed " pupai " ( gambling plaques or dominoes ) as well as dice as items sold by peddlers during the reign of Emperor Xiaozong of Song ( r. 1162 1189 ).
Augustus, the first Emperor ( r. 27 BC AD 14 ), had nominally shared power with his colleagues, and more formal offices of co-Emperor had existed from Marcus Aurelius ( r. 161 80 ) on.
He sought to identify himself with the warlike kings Ardashir ( r. 226 41 ) and Shapur ( r. 241 72 ), the same Shapur who had sacked Roman Antioch and skinned the Emperor Valerian ( r. 253 260 ) to decorate his war temple.
The first foot-sensor-activated automatic door was made in China during the reign of Emperor Yang of Sui ( r. 604 618 ), who had one installed for his royal library.
The Italian possession of maritime areas previously claimed by Abyssinia / Ethiopia was formalized in 1889 with the signing of the Treaty of Wuchale with Emperor Menelik II of Ethiopia ( r. 1889 1913 ) after the defeat of Italy by Ethiopia at the battle of Adua where Italy launched an effort to expand its possessions from Eritrea into the more fertile Abyssinian hinterland.
In naval warfare, the fleet of the Byzantine Emperor Anastasius I ( r. 491 518 ) is recorded by the chronicler John Malalas as having utilized a sulphur-based mixture to defeat the revolt of Vitalian in AD 515, following the advice of a philosopher from Athens called Proclus.
The Emperor Constantine Porphyrogennetos ( r. 945 959 ), in his book De Administrando Imperio, admonishes his son and heir, Romanos II ( r. 959 963 ), to never reveal the secrets of its construction, as it was " shown and revealed by an angel to the great and holy first Christian emperor Constantine " and that the angel bound him " not to prepare this fire but for Christians, and only in the imperial city ".
This also renewed the conflict with the Eastern Emperor in Constantinople, especially after Otto's son Otto II ( r. 967 83 ) adopted the designation imperator Romanorum.
Thus, most knowledge of Roman Britain has derived from archaeological investigations, and the epigraphic evidence lauding the Britannic achievements of an Emperor of Rome, such as Hadrian ( r. 117 38 ) and Antoninus Pius ( r. 138 61 ), whose walls demarcated the northern borders of Roman Britain.
* Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor ( Frederick III of Swabia )( r. 1147-1152 ) King in 1152 and Holy Roman Emperor in 1155
* Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor ( r. 1212-1216 ) King in 1212 and Holy Roman Emperor in 1220
File: Shenzong of Song. jpg | Court portrait of Emperor Shenzong of Song ( r. 1067-1085 ), Chinese
Image: Songhuizong4. jpg | Golden Pheasant and Cotton Rose, by Emperor Huizong of Song ( r. 1100-1126 AD ), Chinese
The laws ( novellae ) of the Emperor Justinian I ( r. 527 565 ) treat Hesychast and anchorite as synonyms, making them interchangeable terms.
Inoculation was reportedly not widely practised in China until the reign of the Longqing Emperor ( r. 1567 1572 ) during the Ming Dynasty ( 1368 1644 ), as written by Yu Tianchi in his Shadou jijie ( 痧痘集解 ) of 1727, which he alleges was based on Wang Zhangren's Douzhen jinjing lu ( 痘疹金鏡錄 ) of 1579.
The Emperor Diocletian ( r. 284 305 ) split the empire into separately administered eastern and western halves in 286 ; however, the empire was not considered divided by its inhabitants or rulers, as legal and administrative promulgations in one division were considered valid in the other.

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