Consequently, after the death of Emperor Yong-le, independent peasant landholders predominated in Chinese agriculture.

Before the king could ever leave for Chang ' an himself, one of his ministers strenuously advised against going for fear that Emperor Wu would find some pretext to prevent him from returning, thus leading to the destruction of Nanyue.

The self-declared Emperor of the Central African Republic, Jean-Bédel Bokassa ( Emperor Bokassa I ), was tried on October 24, 1986 for several cases of cannibalism although he was never convicted.

The Principate ( 27 BC-284 AD ) period was succeeded by what is known as the Dominate ( 284 AD-527 AD ), during which Emperor Diocletian tried to put the Empire on a more formal footing.

However, the Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI intervened, claiming that a prince could only be tried by the Reichstag itself.

Furthermore, he tried to make Catholic property fall to the state, but when this caused too much protest from the Eastern Roman Emperor, he chose to banish a number of Catholics to a faraway province instead.

This meant that, while he could count on the wholehearted support of the Western army which had aided his rise, the Eastern army was an unknown quantity originally loyal to the Emperor he had risen against, and he had tried to woo it through the Chalcedon Tribunal.

Twice an Eastern Emperor tried to force the Eastern Church to reunify with the West.

Eskender was succeeded by Emperor Na ' od who tried to defend the Christians from General Mahfuz but he too was also killed in battle by the Adalite army in Ifat.

Divisions within the empire also had an impact on the raising of troops in 1733, as Charles-Albert of Bavaria, who harbored ambitions to become the next Holy Roman Emperor, signed a secret agreement with France in November 1733, and tried, with limited success, to dissuade other rulers within the empire from the Wittelsbach family from providing troops to the emperor under their treaty obligations.

His father tried to arrange a marriage with a daughter of Emperor Frederick III, but Casimir preferred to remain single.

Upon the advent of the second Jin emperor, Emperor Hui, various imperial princes tried to grab power in the devastating War of the Eight Princes.

Louis XVI and his court had been stimulated by a proposal from the merchant adventurer William Bolts, who had earlier tried unsuccessfully to interest Louis ’ s brother-in-law, the Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II ( brother of Queen Marie Antoinette ), in a similar voyage.

( Louis's son and heir, the future Emperor Napoleon III, on the other hand, was at that time being imprisoned in France for having tried to engineer a Bonapartist coup d ' état.

An anti-clerical liberal, he led that faction at court and tried to influence the Emperor to anti-clerical policies, against the contrary influence of the Emperor's wife, the Empress Eugenie, a devout Catholic and a conservative, and the patroness of those who wanted French troops to protect the Pope's sovereignty in Rome.

Neither Francis I of France nor the Emperor supported this effort, and the English government tried to have him assassinated.

This threat did not materialise in a significant way during Michael VIII's reign, and the Emperor tried to take advantage of a civil war in Bulgaria in the late 1270s but the Byzantine armies suffered several major defeats at the hands of the peasant Emperor Ivaylo.

He dyed black his fair hair, for which he was famous, and went to Genseric claiming to be an envoy of the Western Emperor ; Genseric tried to impress the enemy ambassador showing him the arms collected in the warehouses and sent him back.

Like Eugene, Vitalian tried to restore the connection with Constantinople by making friendly advances to the Eastern Emperor Constans II and to prepare the way for the settlement of the Monothelite controversy.

The Ancient Record of the Tang Dynasty recorded the historic meeting, in which the envoy greeted Emperor Gaozong of Tang and tried to convert him to Islam.

In 1221 Emperor Go-Toba tried to regain power in what would be called the, but the attempt failed.

The Emperor also tried to bring about a union of Roman and Syrian religion under the supremacy of his deity, which he placed even above Jupiter, and to which he assigned either Astarte, Minerva or Urania, or some combination of the three, as wife.

During the period of Austrian rule, a number of different flags were tried, until the Austrian Emperor imposed the Austrian flag.

In the beginning, everything seemed to go well for the new Emperor, who even tried to set up a new dynasty by conferring the title of Augusta upon his wife Aelia Zenonis and creating his son Marcus, Caesar, and later Augustus ; however, due to his mismanagement as emperor, Basiliscus quickly lost most of his supporters.

These commentaries used political rhetoric to promote a state in which the Emperor, as " Son of Heaven ," should extend his sphere of influence to barbarous lands, thereby gladdening the people.

* Ephraim Bee reveals that the Emperor of China has given him a special dispensation: that he has entrusted him with certain sacred and mysterious rituals through Caleb Cushing, the U. S. Commissioner to China, to " extend the work and influence of the Ancient and Honorable Order of E Clampus Vitus " in the New World.

Otto III's pilgrimage allowed the Emperor to extend the influence of Christianity in Eastern Europe and strengthened the Empire's relations with Poland and Hungary by naming them federati (" allies ").

However, many Chinese historians extend the starting point of this period back to various years during the collapse of the Han dynasty, such as to the Yellow Turban Rebellion in 184 ; the year after the beginning of the rebellion, 185 ; Dong Zhuo deposing and murdering Emperor Shao of Han and establishing Emperor Xian of Han in 189 ; Dong Zhuo sacking Luoyang and moving the capital to Chang ' an in 190 ; or Cao Cao placing the emperor under his control in Xuchang in 196.

In a speech at Bordeaux in 1852, Napoleon III famously proclaimed that " The Empire means peace " (" L ' Empire, c ' est la paix "), reassuring foreign governments that the new Emperor Napoleon would not attack other European powers in order to extend the French Empire.

In spite of this defeat, Theodore was able to take advantage of the death of David Megaskomnenos, the brother of Emperor Alexios I of Trebizond in 1212 and to extend his own control over Paphlagonia.

Another explanation put forward is that Emperor Hadrian's decision not to extend the empire any further may have caused London merchants to lose valuable contracts, causing the economy to slump.

Philip eagerly embraced Zwingli's plan of a great Protestant alliance to extend from the Adriatic to Denmark to keep the Holy Roman Emperor from crossing into Germany.

The veneration of ancestors can even extend to legendary figures or historical, such as the founder of one's Chinese surname, virtuous individuals such as Confucius or Guan Yu, or the mythological figures like Huangdi, the Yellow Emperor, considered the patriarch of all Han Chinese.

It is doubted whether Emperor Franz Joseph would have allowed the amnesty to extend to Kossuth.

Ferdinand, now Holy Roman Emperor ( 1556 – 64 ), attempted to extend the influence of Catholicism in Bohemia by forming the Jesuit Academy in Prague and by bringing Jesuit missionaries into Bohemia.

Across Bavaria's southern border, Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II, coveted the Bavarian territory and had married Maximilian Joseph's sister Maria Josepha in 1765 to strengthen any claim he could extend.

It is said that the organization was brought to the United States in 1845 in Lewisport, Virginia, now West Union, West Virginia, when tavern and stable owner Ephraim Bee was given a commission from the Emperor of China to " extend the work and influence of the Ancient and Honorable Order of E Clampus Vitus.

This was further explicit endorsement in January 1919 when Chinda Sutemi wrote to Chaim Weizmann in the name of the Japanese Emperor stating that, " the Japanese government gladly takes note of the Zionist aspiration to extend in Palestine a national home for the Jewish people and they look forward with a sympathetic interest to the realization of such desire upon the basis proposed.

The Emperor is not totally despondent, however, as it has more plans to extend the Dalek Empire …

Furthermore, China's first permanent standing navy was assembled and provided an admiral's office at Dinghai in 1132, under the reign of Emperor Renzong of Song.

* 712-756: Emperor Xuanzong reigned, the time was considered one of China's high points.

* The Hongwu Emperor of China's Ming Dynasty relents after eighteen tribute missions over the previous eight years and agrees to invest King U of Goryeo.

In 1424, the Hongxi Emperor ended China's maritime program, and with it its relationship with Po-ni.

The Last Emperor uses Puyi's life as a mirror that reflects China's passage from feudalism through revolution to its current state.

The next dynasty, the Later Jin Dynasty under Shi Jingtang, posthumously known as Emperor Gaozu of Later Jin, ceded much of modern-day northern Hebei to the Khitan Liao Dynasty in the north ; this territory, called The Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun, became a major weakness in China's defense against the Khitans for the next century, since it lay within the Great Wall.

Calling himself the First Emperor (, Shǐ Huángdì ) after China's unification, Qín Shǐ Huáng is a pivotal figure in Chinese history, ushering nearly two millennia of imperial rule.

* Secrets of China's First Emperor, Tyrant and Visionary ( 2006 )-a documentary by National Geographic.

* China's First Emperor ( 2008 )-a special three-hour documentary by The History Channel.

A collection of 120 objects from the mausoleum and 20 terracotta warriors were displayed at the British Museum in London as its special exhibition " The First Emperor: China's Terracotta Army " from 13 September 2007 to April 2008.

An exhibition entitled ' The First Emperor – China's Entombed Warriors ', presenting 120 artefacts from the First Emperor's burial site, was hosted at the Art Gallery of New South Wales ( Sydney, Australia ), between 2 December 2010 and 13 March 2011.

Kinmen was first named Jīnmén ( 金門 ; lit, " golden gate ") in Chinese 1387 when the Hongwu Emperor of China's Ming Dynasty appointed a military officer to administer the island and protect it from wokou ( pirate ) attacks.

In 2006, the British Museum announced its plans to modify the Reading Room to house a temporary exhibition entitled ' The First Emperor: China's Terracotta Army ': this modification was designed by the London-based exhibition design company Metaphor.

The revolution ended with the abdication of the " Last Emperor " Puyi on February 12, 1912, that marked the end of over 2, 000 years of imperial rule and the beginning of China's republican era.

In 154 BC, an unrelated Zhao ( 赵 ), headed by Liu Sui ( 劉遂 ), the Prince of Zhao kingdom, participated in the unsuccessful Revolt of the Seven Kingdoms ( 七国之乱 ) against the newly installed second Emperor of the China's centralist Han Dynasty.

Emperor Hui's most trusted companion was documented by Sima Qian, China's Grand Historian:

The Yongle Emperor hired Zheng He, China's foremost explorer, to lead seven expeditions to the Indian Ocean.

After 1911, however, the Yellow Emperor as national symbol changed from first progenitor of the Han race to ancestor of China's entire multi-ethnic population.

Its appearance apparently impressed Emperor Chengzong of Yuan China's late 13th century envoy Chou Ta-Kuan during his visit from 1296 to 1297, who said it was ' the Tower of Bronze ... a truly astonishing spectacle, with more than ten chambers at its base.

Although the non-medicinal consumption of opium was banned by the Yongzheng Emperor in 1729, by the 1830s, China's economy and society were being seriously affected by huge imports of opium from British and other foreign traders based in the city.

" Additionally, the Yongle Emperor hired Zheng He, perhaps the most famous Chinese Muslim and China's foremost explorer, to lead seven expeditions to the Indian Ocean, from 1405 and 1433.

The tomb mentioned in the title is that of China's first Emperor Qin Shi Huang.

Following this successful campaign, Shi Lang returned to the Chinese mainland and worked hard to persuade the Kangxi Emperor to make Taiwan part of China's recognized territory.

This legend states that the legendary figures of China's pre-history — Fuxi, Shennong and Huang Di, the " Yellow Emperor " — were involved in its creation.