* 221 – Liu Bei, a Chinese warlord and member of the Han royal house, declares himself emperor of Shu-Han and claims his legitimate succession to the Han Dynasty.

* Liu Bei, founding emperor of the Kingdom of Shu

* Empress Wu, wife of Liu Bei

* Ma Chao, son of Ma Teng, cousin of Ma Dai, brother of Ma Tie and Ma Xie, general and Tiger general of Shu for Liu Bei.

* Lu Su, advisor to Sun Quan, sympathetic to Liu Bei ( b. 172 )

* Chen Zhen, minister under Liu Bei of Shu ( b. 170 )

* Deng Zhi, minister under Liu Bei

* Liu Bei, founder of the Shu Kingdom of China ( d. 223 )

* Liu Zhang, ruled Yi after Liu Yan's death until he was forced to hand it to Liu Bei ( d. 219 )

* Chen Zhen, minister under Liu Bei ( d. 235 )

It began when the ruler of Wei, Cao Cao, was defeated by Liu Bei and Sun Quan at the Battle of Red Cliffs.

Liu Bei and Sun Quan declared themselves emperor of Shu and Wu respectively.

Tao Qian received the support of Liu Bei and Gongsun Zan, but even then it seemed as if Cao Cao's superior forces would overrun Xu Province entirely.

Tao Qian died in the same year, leaving his province to Liu Bei.

Lü Bu fled to Xu Province and was received by Liu Bei, and an uneasy alliance began between the two.

In 197, Yuan Shu, who was at odds with Cao Cao, Yuan Shao, and Liu Bei, felt assured of victory with his subordinate's conquests, and thus declared himself emperor of the Cheng Dynasty.

Sun Ce complied, but first convinced Cao Cao to form a coalition against Yuan Shu, of which Liu Bei and Lü Bu were members.

Afterwards, Lü Bu betrayed Liu Bei and seized Xu Province, forming an alliance with Yuan Shu's remnant forces.

Liu Bei, together with his followers Zhang Fei and Guan Yu, fled to Cao Cao, who accepted him.

Soon, preparations were made for an attack on Lü Bu, and the combined forces of Cao Cao and Liu Bei invaded Xu Province.

He collaborated with Liu Bei on this effort, but Cao Cao soon found out about the plot and had Dong Cheng and his conspirators executed, with only Liu Bei surviving and fleeing to join Yuan Shao in the north.

Liu Bei received financial contributions from two wealthy horse merchants named Zhang Shiping and Su Shuang and rallied a group of loyal followers, among whom include Guan Yu and Zhang Fei.

Towards the end of the Han Dynasty, Liu Bei, a warlord and distant relative of the Han imperial clan, rallied the support of many capable followers.

Liu Bei rallied his troops to turn against Liu Zhang and killed Yang Huai and Gao Pei, on charges of showing disrespect towards him, and took over command of their armies.

However, the emperor's martial abilities were not equal to his father, and his inability to crush the remaining barbarian states allowed Northern Wei to complete the unification of the North, to the detriment of Liu Song.

During certain reigns of weak emperors, powerful eunuchs, such as Liu Jin and Wei Zhongxian, circumvented this restriction by styling themselves with jiǔ qiān suì ( 九千歲, literally " 9000 years ") so as to display their high positions, which were close to or even exceeded the emperor's, while still remaining reverent to the title of the emperor.

Liu Bei attempted to reform and regroup his remaining forces at the hills to make a last stand.

In May, Liu was appointed commander of avant-courier army and worked with commissar Nie Rongzhen on securing the route for the remaining troops.

Liu Zhang then hurriedly mobilized his remaining forces to intercept Liu Bei from getting to Chengdu, capital of his jurisdiction.

Liu Bang then released the remaining prisoners and became a fugitive, with some of the men he released voluntarily agreeing to follow him.

It is not known whether at this time Prince Heng, who was then seven years old, was already in Dai, but it appeared likely, because his brother Liu Ruyi was the only prince at the time explicitly to have been recorded to be remaining at the capital Chang ' an rather than being sent to his principality.

In 181 BC, after Prince Heng's brother, Prince Liu Hui of Zhao, committed suicide over his marital problems, Grand Empress Dowager Lü, who was then in effective control of the imperial government, offered the more prosperous Principality of Zhao to Prince Heng, but Prince Heng, judging correctly that she was intending on making her nephew Lü Lu prince, politely declined and indicated that he preferred remaining on the border.

The remaining eunuchs initially took the young emperor and Liu Xie hostage, but were eventually forced to commit suicide when the battle turned against them.

In late 367, Fu Sheng's remaining brothers -- Fu Liu ( 苻柳 ) the Duke of Jin, Fu Sou ( 苻廋 ) the Duke of Wei, and Fu Wu ( 苻武 ) the Duke of Yan, along with Fu Jiān's brother Fu Shuang ( 苻雙 ) the Duke of Zhao, rebelled.

Xiao He immediately grabbed the remaining pieces of paper, put them into his mouth and chewed them to shreds, after which he proclaimed Liu Bang as their leader.

By winter 622, Liu Heita posed the only remaining major threat against Tang rule.

In July 1966, Mao ordered the removal of the remaining work teams ( against the wishes of Liu Shaoqi ) and condemned their ' fifty days of White Terror '.

Sun Quan put Zhou Yu in charge of his 30, 000 men, largely stationed on naval ships, and Zhou set up in a defense position in conjunction with Liu Bei, whose army was stationed on land.

Liu Bei personally went to Gong ' an and Guan Yu led 30, 000 men to Yiyang.

Liu leads his men and the civilians of Xinye on an exodus southwards and they arrive at Jiangxia ( present-day Yunmeng County, Hubei ) where Liu establishes a foothold against Cao Cao.

For example, the information that Liu Bang ( later Emperor Gaozu of Han ), in a desperate attempt to escape in a chase from Xiang Yu's men, pushed his children off his carriage to lighten it, was not given in the emperor's biography, but in the biography of Xiang Yu.

It was under his leadership that Cao Cao's forces fell to an ambush at the Battle of Bowang, costing thousands of men their lives when he pursued Liu Bei's forces into a nearby gulley.

Cao Cao became concerned about such developments in his rear, but his cousin Cao Ren observed that Liu Bei could not have too much control over his new men given by Yuan Shao.

At Zhu's suggestion, Xie Xuan and Liu Laozhi ( 劉牢之 ) led 5000 elite troops to engage the advance Former Qin force and scored a devastating victory, killing 15, 000 men.

Cao Bao's death caused unrest in the city, providing Lü Bu with an opportunity to seize control of the city, capturing the families of Liu Bei and his men during the surprise attack.

Liu Bei moved his camp to Xiaopei where he rebuilt his army, gathering over ten thousand men.

With Guan Yu's fleet, they crossed the Mian River to Jiangxia and the Yangtze River to Xiakou with Liu Qi, Liu Biao's older son, and his men.

Liu Bei recommended Liu Qi to be the new Inspector of Jing Province ( 荊州刺史 ) and led his men to capture the four commanderies south of the Yangtze River-Changsha, Lingling ( present day Yongzhou, Hunan ), Guiyang and Wuling ( 武陵 ).

The four men promised to assist Liu Ying in future if he became emperor, and Gaozu was pleased to see that Liu Ying had their support.

During the siege of Tuyen Quang ( November 1884 – March 1885 ), Liu Yung-fu's Black Flags, who formed part of the besieging Chinese army, taunted the men of the French garrison by chanting the names of their two most famous victims: ' Garnier!

Around the same time, Liu Bei sent Zhao Yun to secretly recruit more men to join his army, while they were both still under Yuan Shao.

Zhao Yun succeeded in recruiting a few hundred men, when asked, they all claimed to be Liu Bei's personal militia, and Yuan Shao was unable to know if his men deserted him for Liu.

Although he controlled neither many troops nor much land, Sun Jian's personal bravery and resourcefulness were feared by Dong Zhuo, who placed him among Yuan Shao, Yuan Shu and Liu Biao as the most influential men at that time.

Liu Bei ordered Guan Yu to take the three commanderies of southern Jing Province with 30, 000 men.