* 1507 – Jiajing Emperor of China ( d. 1567 )

* May 27 – Jiajing Emperor ascends the throne of the Ming Dynasty.

According to the Ming Shi, these cannons are soon presented to the Jiajing Emperor by Wang Hong, and their design is copied in 1529.

* January 23 – After 45 years ' reign, the Jiajing Emperor dies in the Forbidden City.

* January 23 – Jiajing Emperor of China ( b. 1507 )

* September 16 – Jiajing Emperor of China ( d. 1567 )

Modern scholars still debate on whether or not the Ming Dynasty really had sovereignty over Tibet at all, as some believe it was a relationship of loose suzerainty which was largely cut off when the Jiajing Emperor ( ruled in 1521 – 67 ) persecuted Buddhism in favor of Daoism at court and some scholars argue that the significant religious nature of the relationship of the Ming court with Tibetan lamas is underrepresented in modern scholarship.

The complex was extended and renamed Temple of Heaven during the reign of the Jiajing Emperor in the 16th century.

The Jiajing Emperor also built three other prominent temples in Beijing, the Temple of Sun ( 日壇 ) in the east, the Temple of Earth ( 地壇 ) in the north, and the Temple of Moon ( 月壇 ) in the west.

The Altar was built in 1530 by the Jiajing Emperor and rebuilt in 1740.

The Hongzhi Emperor and Jiajing Emperor's physicians were executed.

From the period of the Jiajing Emperor ( 1522 – 66 ) on, a pair of phoenixes was differentiated by the tail feathers of the two birds ( typically together forming a closed circle pattern — the male identified by five serrated tail feathers ( five being an odd, or yang number ) and the female by what appears to be one, but is in fact, two ( two being an even, or yin number ) curling or tendrilled tail feathers.

Yan Song was the prime minister who served under the Emperor Jiajing.

In 1557, under the supervision of the Jiajing Emperor, the encyclopedia was narrowly saved from being destroyed by a fire that burnt down three palaces in the Forbidden City.

* It disappeared at the death of the Jiajing Emperor, having been taken by the emperor to his grave, and it has yet to be found in the tomb complex of Yongling.

* Consort Shao, before her death her paternal grandson became Jiajing Emperor, and she was posthumously honored Empress Xiaohui ( 孝惠皇后 )

* Zhu Youyuan, Prince Xian of Xing, born by Consort Shao and fathered Jiajing Emperor, posthumously honored Emperor Xian of Xing and Emperor Ruizong of Ming

As the Jiajing Emperor, Zhu Houcong had his parents posthumously elevated to an " honorary " imperial rank, and had an imperial-style Xianling Mausoleum built for them near Zhongxiang.

" The Jiajing Emperor prevailed, and hundreds of his opponents were banished, physically beaten in the court ( 廷杖 ) or executed.

The Jiajing Emperor was known to be a cruel and self-aggrandizing emperor and he also chose to reside outside of the Forbidden City in Beijing so he could live in isolation.

Waley also suggests a comparison of the several poems present in the Jin Ping Mei to the poetic production of Xu Wei, and draws attention to the fact that the circulation of the work from Soochow in the XVIII century began from the only known complete copy of a manuscript in the possession of the Xu family, attributed to a scholar of the Jiajing period ; which would, Waley observe, perfectly fit Xu Wei himself.

Because the Ming Dynasty's Jiajing Emperor ( known also under the temple name Shizong ; reigned 1521 – 1567 ) was born and had lived in the city before he succeeded to the throne, Zhongxiang, the place where the Chengtian Prefecture ( fu ) Government Office was located, became one of the three major prefectures directly under the central government.

Once on the throne, the Jiajing Emperor controversially had his dead father Zhu Youyuan ( 1476 – 1519 ) retroactively styled as the Gongruixian Emperor ; his mother became the Zhangsheng empress dowager.

After 45 years on the throne ( the second longest reign in the Ming dynasty ), Emperor Jiajing died in 1567 – possibly due to mercury overdose believing to be the Elixir of Life – and was succeeded by his son, the Longqing Emperor.

Image: Porcelaine chinoise Guimet 271108. jpg | A porcelain vase with design of men fighting on horseback, from the Jiajing reign period ( 1521 – 1567 ), Ming Dynasty.

When the Outer city was reconstructed during the Jiajing era ( 1521 – 1567 ), another moat was built surrounding the outer wall.

Particularly during his later years, Jiajing was known for spending a great deal of time on alchemy in hopes of finding medicines to prolong his life.

His name at birth was Zhu Zaihou and he was born during the reign of his father Emperor Jiajing, at the Forbidden City at the Ming Dynasty capital Beijing ..

It was not until the reign of the Jiajing Emperor of the Ming Dynasty ( 1522 ) that the present-day city wall was built.

According to tradition, the Dragon King went to the aid of imperial troops in the Ming Dynasty and was honoured by the Jiajing Emperor by edict.

The period of greatest Wokou activity was during the Jiajing and Wanli eras, also some of the weakest in Ming history.

The first fort was built during the reign of the Ming Jiajing Emperor between 1522 and 1527.

The 1556 Shaanxi earthquake () or Jiajing earthquake () was a catastrophic earthquake and is also the deadliest earthquake on record, killing approximately 830, 000 people.

The title which he now has in the sacrificial Canon, " Continuator of the Sage ", was conferred in the ninth year of the Jiajing era, in 1530 AD.

He is not given in the list of the ' Narratives of the School ,' and on this account his tablet was put out of the temples in the ninth year of Jiajing.

Zhongxiang means " Blessed with propitious omen ", which was gifted by Emperor Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty.

In 1553, the Ming government under the Jiajing Emperor moved the monks and destroyed temples once more.

File: Ming Dynasty porcelain dish, Jiajing Reign Period ( 2 ). JPG | A Ming blue-and-white porcelain dish from the reign of the Jiajing Emperor ( 1521-1567 AD )

Jiajing Emperor in the Ming Dynasty died from ingesting a lethal dosage of mercury in the supposed " Elixir of Life " conjured by alchemists.

There, beyond the Great Wall of China, a large but scattered population of native Christians had taken refuge from the persecutions of Jiajing ( Kia-king ), in an earlier era.

Jiajing also abandoned the practice of seeing his ministers altogether from 1539 onwards and for a period of almost 25 years refused to give official audiences, choosing instead to relay his wishes through eunuchs and officials.

Jiajing on his state barge, from a scroll painted in 1538 by unknown court artists

A porcelain vase with glazed fish designs, from the Jiajing reign period.

His title -- ' Exhibitor of the Fundamental Principles of the Sage ,' dates from the period of Jiajing, as mentioned in speaking of Yan Hui.