Emperor Kangxi ordered the creation of Kangxi Dictionary, the most complete dictionary of Chinese characters ever put together at the time.

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.

However, they soon began to loot the holy places of Lhasa, which brought a swift response from Emperor Kangxi in 1718 ; but his military expedition was annihilated by the Dzungars, not far from Lhasa.

A second, larger, expedition sent by Emperor Kangxi expelled the Dzungars from Tibet in 1720 and the troops were hailed as liberators.

The portraits of Kangxi Emperor, Yongzheng Emperor, and Qianlong Emperor are excellent examples of realistic Chinese portrait painting.

It was established before the fall of the Ming Dynasty, but it became mature only after 1661, following the death of the Shunzhi Emperor and the accession of his son, the Kangxi Emperor.

The Kangxi Emperor sponsored the Peiwen Yunfu, a rime dictionary published in 1711, and the Kangxi Dictionary published in 1716, which remains to this day an authoritative reference.

During the Qing Dynasty, Shanghai became one of the most important sea ports in the Yangtze Delta region as a result of two important central government policy changes: First, Emperor Kangxi ( 1662 – 1723 ) in 1684 reversed the previous Ming Dynasty prohibition on ocean going vessels – a ban that had been in force since 1525.

Variously said to have taken place in 1647 under the Shunzhi Emperor, in 1674 under the Kangxi Emperor, or in 1732 under the Yongzheng Emperor, this destruction is also supposed to have helped spread Shaolin martial arts through China by means of the five fugitive monks.

* Kangxi Emperor, Chinese Emperor

* February 5 – The Shunzhi Emperor of the Qing Dynasty of China dies and is succeeded by his son the Kangxi Emperor.

In response, the Kangxi Emperor of the mainland Qing Dynasty migrates all residents along the southern coast by 50 miles.

* Emperor Kangxi announces that all western businessmen can only trade in Guangzhou.

* The Chinese army of the Qing Dynasty attacks a Russian post at Albazin, during the reigns of the Kangxi Emperor and the dual Russian rulers Ivan V of Russia and Peter I of Russia.

* December 20 – After the longest reign by a Chinese Emperor in history, the Kangxi Emperor dies and is succeeded by his son Yinzhen with the reign name Yongzheng.

* March 22 – The Kangxi Emperor of the Qing Dynasty issues the Edict of Toleration recognizing all the Roman Catholic Church, not just the Jesuits, and legalizing missions and their conversion of Chinese people.

* December – Wu Shifan, grandson of Chinese general Wu Sangui, commits suicide in Yunnan province, ending the 8-year conflict of the Revolt of the Three Feudatories against Qing Dynasty authority in China, then led by the Kangxi Emperor.

* Tong Hua, Bu Bu Jing Xin, set in 18th century Qing Dynasty China, within Kangxi Emperor's later reign and Yongzheng Emperor's ascension.

In the Qing Dynasty, emperors Kangxi and Qianlong made twelve trips to the south, on all occasions but one reaching Hangzhou.

Taiwan was officially regarded by Qing Emperor Kangxi as " a ball of mud beyond the pale of civilization " and did not appear on any map of the imperial domain until 1683.

Qing Emperor Kangxi expressed the sentiment that Taiwan was " the size of a pellet ; taking it is no gain ; not taking it is no loss " ( 彈丸之地 。 得之無所加 ， 不得無所損 ).

# Emperors of the Ming and Qing dynasties: use era names ( reign names ) because most emperors had only one distinctive era name during their reign, e. g. Emperor Kangxi ( 康熙 kāng xī ) of Qing.

#: However, the use of era names makes many mistake these for the names of the emperors themselves, and many scholars therefore encourage a reversed wording for Ming and Qing emperors, e. g., the Kangxi Emperor, the Qianlong Emperor, et cetera.

For example, various Ming Dynasty princes continued to claim the title after the founding of the Qing Dynasty ( 1644 – 1911 ), and Wu Sangui claimed the title during the Kangxi Emperor's reign.

Among the most famous Emperors are Qin Shi Huang of the Qin Dynasty, Emperors Gaozu and Wu of the Han Dynasty, Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, Kublai Khan of the Yuan Dynasty, the Hongwu Emperor of the Ming Dynasty and the Kangxi Emperor of the Qing Dynasty.

Generally, in the Chinese dynastic cycle, Emperors founding a dynasty usually consolidated the Empire through absolute rule, examples including Qin Shi Huang of the Qin Dynasty, Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, Kublai Khan of the Yuan Dynasty, and Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty.

In the first decades of the 18th century, the language difference between the Chinese Qing imperial bureaucrats and the commoners was recorded by the first Imperial High Commissioner to Taiwan ( 1722 ), Huáng Shújǐng, a Beijinger sent by the Kangxi Emperor, during whose reign Taiwan was annexed in 1684:

* In the second month of the first year ( 1661 ) of Kangxi, Qing court issued the emperor's decree: The sea shore inhabitants will be ordered to move inland 50 Li ( Chinese: 里 ; translation: mile ), to curb their links with the Taiwan rebels ( Koxinga ).

During the Qing Dynasty, sacrifice of slaves was banned by the Kangxi Emperor in 1673.

In the 1660s, during the reign of the Kangxi Emperor in the Qing Dynasty, Mao Lun () and his son Mao Zonggang () significantly edited the text, fitting it into 120 chapters, and abbreviating the title to Sanguozhi Yanyi.

Heilongjiang as an administrative entity was created in 1683, during the Kangxi era of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, from the northwestern part of the Jilin province.

Originally laid out by the energetic seventeenth-century Qing emperor Kangxi, it has been modified over the years to include a noisy funfair, food stalls and emporiums, and is a favourite haunt of Kunming's youth.

* Kangxi Emperor of Qing dynasty ( 1661 – 1722, Jubilee in 1711 )

In 1692, the Qing Kangxi Emperor carried out a comprehensive building program at the temple and merged it with the nearby Fahai Temple ( 法海寺 ).

The Kangxi dictionary of Chinese was published even earlier, in 1716.

All emperors were also given a posthumous name ( 謚號 ), which was sometimes combined with the temple name ( e. g. Emperor Shengzuren 聖祖仁皇帝 for Kangxi ).

In 1684, the ban was stopped, trading was reopened under the Kangxi Emperor.

Pre-1778 artifacts that never left the city since its founding include the Vajradhara statue made by Zanabazar himself in 1683 ( the city's main deity kept at the Vajradhara temple ), a highly ornate throne presented to Zanabazar by the Kangxi Emperor ( before 1723 ), a sandalwood hat presented to Zanabazar by the Dalai Lama ( c. 1663 ), Zanabazar's large fur coat which was also presented by the Kangxi Emperor and a great number of original statues made by Zanabazar himself ( e. g. the Green Tara ).

One of the largest was the Kangxi Dictionary compiled by 1716 under the auspices of the Kangxi Emperor ( r. 1661 – 1722 ); it provides definitions for over 47, 000 characters.

Dorgon was posthumously rehabilitated during the reign of the Kangxi Emperor.

The Kangxi Emperor was at first friendly to the Jesuit Missionaries working in China.

Initial construction began in 1707, during the reign of the Kangxi Emperor and was on a much smaller scale.

This was also a time of related literary developments, such as the collection of Tang poetry, under the Kangxi Emperor.

Hongli was adored both by his grandfather, the Kangxi Emperor and his father, the Yongzheng Emperor.

Some historians argue that the main reason why Kangxi Emperor appointed Yongzheng as his successor was because Qianlong was his favourite grandson.

The young Hongli had been a favorite of his grandfather, Kangxi, and his father alike ; Yongzheng had entrusted a number of important ritual tasks to him while Hongli was still a prince, and included him in important court discussions of military strategy.