* Yuan Shao, major warlord who ruled Northern China until defeated by Cao Cao ( d. 202 )

* Yuan Shu, younger half-brother of Yuan Shao ( d. 199 )

* Gongsun Zan, Chinese warlord ( killed by Yuan Shao )

* Chinese warlord Cao Cao defeats Yuan Shao in the battle of Guandu.

* Chunyu Qiong ( executed by Yuan Shao )

* Han Juzi, general under Yuan Shao

* Ju Shou ( officer of Yuan Shao )

* Tian Feng ( executed by Yuan Shao )

* Wen Chou, general under Yuan Shao

* Yan Liang, general under Yuan Shao

* Pang Ji, minister under Yuan Shao

* Guo Yuan, general under Yuan Shao

Liu Bian took the Han throne as Emperor Shao, and He Jin plotted with warlord Yuan Shao to assassinate the Ten Attendants, a clique of ten eunuchs led by Zhang Rang who controlled much of the imperial court.

In 190 a coalition led by Yuan Shao was formed between nearly all the provincial authorities in the eastern provinces of the empire against Dong Zhuo.

Yuan Shao occupied the northern area of Ye and extended his power, by taking over his superior Han Fu with trickery and intimidation, north of the Yellow River against Gongsun Zan, who held the northern frontier.

Lü Bu fled to Zhang Yang, a northern warlord, and remained with him for a time before briefly joining Yuan Shao, but it was clear that Lü Bu was far too independent to serve another.

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.

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.

After settling the nearby provinces, including a rebellion led by former Yellow Turbans, and internal affairs with the court, Cao Cao turned his attention north to Yuan Shao, who himself had eliminated his northern rival Gongsun Zan that same year.

Yuan Shao, himself of higher nobility than Cao Cao, amassed a large army and camped along the northern bank of the Yellow River.

Following months of planning, Cao Cao and Yuan Shao clashed at the Battle of Guandu.

Over the next few years, Yuan proceeded to abolish the national and provincial assemblies, and declared himself emperor in late 1915.

Wang named himself President of the Executive Yuan and Chairman of the National Government ( not the same ' National Government ' as Chiang's ), and led a surprisingly large minority of anti-Chiang / anti-Communist Chinese against his old comrades.

An example of such would be Qian Xuan ( 1235 – 1305 AD ), who was an official of the Song Dynasty, but out of patriotism, refused to serve the Yuan court and dedicated himself to painting.

* December 12 – Chinese president Yuan Shikai declares himself Emperor.

Li Yuan, the former governor of Taiyuan, declared himself the emperor, and founded the Tang Dynasty.

With the news of Emperor Yang's murder by his general Yuwen Huaji ( d. 619 ), on June 18, 618, Li Yuan declared himself the emperor of a new dynasty, the Tang.

Yuan Shikai ( 16 September 1859 – 6 June 1916 ) was an important Chinese general and politician, famous for his influence during the late Qing Dynasty, his role in the events leading up to the abdication of the last Qing Emperor of China, his autocratic rule as the second President of the Republic of China ( following Sun Yatsen ), and his short-lived attempt to revive the Chinese monarchy, with himself as the " Great Emperor of China.

Finally, Yuan had himself elected president to a five-year term, publicly labelled the Kuomintang a seditious organization, ordered the Kuomintang's dissolution, and evicted all members from Parliament.

On 12 December 1915, Yuan agreed to become the next emperor and proclaimed himself Emperor of the Chinese Empire ( 中華帝國大皇帝 ) under the era name of Hongxian ( 洪憲 ; i. e. Constitutional Abundance ) beginning 1 January 1916.

In 1915, Yuan proclaimed himself Emperor of China in a largely unpopular move and was forced to retract his declaration shortly before his death in 1916.

In 1914, Yuan Shikai, then President of the Republic of China, performed a Ming prayer ceremony at the temple, as part of an effort to have himself declared Emperor of China.

In 1915 Yuan Shikai proclaimed the Empire of China ( 1915 – 1916 ) with himself as Emperor of China.

Song spoke out against the increasing authoritarianism of China's provisional president, Yuan Shikai, and expressed concerns towards Yuan ’ s indications that he would like to restore a monarchial system to China with himself as emperor.

Yuan Shikai ejected the Kuomintang party from China's elected assemblies in 1913, dissolved parliament in 1914, declared himself emperor in 1915, and died in 1916.

When the Mongolian Yuan army sent by Kublai Khan arrived, Wijaya allied himself with the army to fight against Jayakatwang.

Yuan Huangtou, a Chinese prince, survived by tying himself to the kite.

Daxing was renamed Chang ' an in year 618 when the Duke of Tang, Li Yuan, proclaimed himself the Emperor Gaozu of Tang empire.

His reigning title, " Dayan ", means the " Great Yuan " ( 大元 ), as he enthroned himself as Great Khan of the Great Yuan, though the Yuan Dynasty, the principal khanate of the Mongol Empire, had already been overthrown by the native Chinese Ming Dynasty in China a century ago ( 1368 ).

Most of the Uighurs including the ruling dynasty fled to Gansu ( under Yuan Dynasty ) due to the conflict between the Mongols.

The last Yuan emperor fled north to Shangdu and Zhu declared the founding of the Ming Dynasty after razing the Yuan palaces in Dadu to the ground ; the city was renamed Beiping in the same year.

Attacked on all sides, Yuan Shu was defeated and fled into hiding.

Liu Bei fled to join Liu Biao in Jing Province, and many of Yuan Shao's forces were destroyed.

Seeing the situation for his party worsen, Sun Yat-sen fled to Japan in November 1913, and called for a Second Revolution, this time against Yuan Shikai.

Sun Yat-sen, who had fled to Tokyo and set up a base there, actively organized efforts to overthrow Yuan.

He mounted five military expeditions into Mongolia and crushed the remnants of the Yuan Dynasty that had fled north after being defeated by Emperor Hongwu.

Chen fled to Japan again in 1913 following the short-lived " Second Revolution " against Yuan Shikai ( 袁世凱 ), but returned to China soon afterwards.

As Yuan Dahua, the last Qing governor, fled from Xinjiang, one of his subordinates, Yang Zengxin ( 杨增新 ), took control of the province and acceded in name to the Republic of China in March of the same year.

Liu Bei fled to Hebei and joined the warlord Yuan Shao.

Cao Cao fled and he cut his beard and discarded his red robe during the escape to avoid being identified by Ma Chao's troops before being rescued by Cao Hong and Xiahou Yuan.

In the chaos, Yuan Shao's commander Wen Chou was killed and Liu Bei fled.

On the other hand, Yuan Shang suffered defeats at the hands of Cao Cao and fled north to join his second brother Yuan Xi.

Yuan Shang and Yuan Xi fled to Liaodong to seek shelter under the warlord Gongsun Kang in 207, but Gongsun killed them instead and sent their heads to Cao Cao.

Zhang Liao fled with Lü Bu, and joined Yuan Shao temporarily.

After the failed Second Revolution against President Yuan Shikai, Lin fled with Sun Yat-sen to Japan and joined his Chinese Revolutionary Party.

In 207, when Yuan Shang and Yuan Xi fled to Liaodong after being defeated by Cao Cao's forces, Gongsun killed the Yuans and sent their heads to Cao.

Liu Bei fled north to join Yuan Shao, where he was received with respect by Yuan Shao and his son Yuan Tan.