* 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 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

The Jiajing Emperor ( Wade-Giles: Chia-ching Emperor ; ; ; 16 September 1507 – 23 January 1567 ) was the 11th Ming Dynasty Emperor of China who ruled from 1521 to 1567.

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.

He is also well known for his corruption and had been known to openly sell government positions for cash during the Jiajing reign.

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.

He also purged the government of corrupt officials namely Daoist priests whom the Jiajing Emperor had favoured in the hope of improving the situation in the empire.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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 ..

The deadliest earthquake of all times, the Shaanxi earthquake of 1556 that killed approximately 830, 000 people, occurred during the Jiajing Emperor's reign.

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.

Thus emperors like Zhengde sneaked out of the palace while emperors like Jiajing and Wanli simply didn't show up at court.

Ignoring state affairs, Jiajing employed incapable individuals such as Zhang Cong and Yan Song, on whom he thoroughly relied to handle affairs of state.

The Emperor also ordered all copies of the Thalia, the book in which Arius had expressed his teachings, to be burned.

Antoninus Pius (; born 19 September 86AD – died 7 March 161AD ), also known as Antoninus, was Roman Emperor from 138AD to 161AD.

The family of Antoninus Pius and Faustina the Elder also represents one of the few periods in ancient Roman history where the position of Emperor passed smoothly from father to son.

He was succeeded as Emperor by his adopted son ( also stepson and former son-in-law ) Tiberius.

The Mughal Emperor Farrukhsiyar a grandson of Aurangzeb, is also known to have sent a letter to the Ottomans bu this time it was received by the Grand Vizier Nevşehirli Damad Ibrahim Pasha providing a graphic description of the informing him of the efforts of the Mughal commander Syed Hassan Ali Khan Barha against the Rajput and Maratha rebellion.

The deposed Emperor attempted to escape in a boat with his wife Agnes and his mistress, but was captured ( note that by some, Andronikos not only survived, but also managed to escape to the then self-proclaimed Kingdom of Cyprus ).

This could be either the normal military dress, with a tunic to about the knees, armour breastplate and pteruges, but also often the specific dress of the bodyguard of the Byzantine Emperor, with a long tunic and the loros, a long gold and jewelled pallium restricted to the Imperial family and their closest guards.

Dürer also made several portraits of the Emperor, including one shortly before Maximilian's death in 1519.

Saint Adelaide of Italy ( 931 / 932 – 16 December 999 ), also called Adelaide of Burgundy, was the second wife of Otto the Great, Holy Roman Emperor.

He was also the younger brother of Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor.

* Napoleon I ( 1804 – 1814, 1815 ), also King of Italy ( 1805 – 1814 ) and Emperor in Elba ( 1814 – 1815 )

However, following the death of an Emperor, they became known also for plunder in the Imperial palaces.

Between 1673 and 1681, the Emperor Kangxi suppressed an uprising of three generals in Southern China who had been denied hereditary rule to large fiefdoms granted by the previous emperor ; he also put down a Ming restorationist invasion from Taiwan, called the Revolt of the Three Feudatories.

The freedmen could also officially speak for the Emperor, as when Narcissus addressed the troops in Claudius ' stead before the conquest of Britain.

Annual games were also held in honor of his accession, and took place at the Praetorian camp where Claudius had first been proclaimed Emperor.

* Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor ( 1500 – 1558 ), also Charles I of Spain

Tibetans also had a tradition of cavalry warfare, in several military engagements early on with the Chinese Tang Dynasty ( 618 – 907 AD ), including Emperor Taizong's campaign against Tufan in 638.

Caligula (; 31 August AD 12 – 24 January AD 41 ), also known as Gaius, was Roman Emperor from 37 AD to 41 AD.

Cyril also wrote to the Emperor, telling his version of the events.

The first duke was also honoured with Imperial titles: Emperor Joseph I created him a Prince of the Holy Roman Empire in 1704, and in 1705, he was created Imperial Prince of Mindelheim ( once the lordship of the noted soldier Georg von Frundsberg ).

There were also two finance ministers, dealing with the separate bodies of the public treasury and the private domains of the Emperor, and the praetorian prefect, the most significant person of the whole.

The Emperor also revived the practice of public banquets, which had been reduced to a simple distribution of food under Nero, while he invested large sums on entertainment and games.

The imperial army also actively perpetrated massacres until the ousting of the Emperor by the Derg in 1974.

* Czech, mainly during the reign of Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV but also during other periods of Bohemian control over the HRE.

Edith of England () ( 910 – 26 January 946 ), also spelt Eadgyth or Ædgyth, was the daughter of Edward the Elder, and the wife of Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor.