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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.
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Sun Yat-sen was declared as President, but Sun was forced to turn power over to Yuan Shikai, who commanded the New Army and was Prime Minister under the Qing government, as part of the agreement to let the last Qing monarch abdicate ( a decision Sun would later regret ).
After the takeover of the Republican government by Yuan Shikai and the failed Second Revolution in 1913, Chiang, like his KMT comrades, divided time between exile in Japan and the havens of the Shanghai International Settlement.
On May 18, 1916 agents of Yuan Shikai assassinated Chen Qimei.
Notions of the Mandate of Heaven and divine monarchy were discarded, as shown in two unpopular and failed attempts to restore the imperial system by Yuan Shikai and Zhang Xun.
The title was briefly revived from 12 December 1915 to 22 March 1916 by President Yuan Shikai and again in early July 1917 when General Zhang Xun attempted to restore last Qing emperor Puyi to the throne.
The northern provinces had remained loyal to the Emperor, and hoping to avoid a civil war, Sun Yat-Sen – already proclaimed " provisional president " by his supporters – had come to a compromise with the Emperor's key ally Yuan Shikai ( 1859 – 1916 ); the monarchy would be abolished, and Late Imperial China would be converted into a new Republic of China, but it would be the royalist Yuan and not the revolutionary Sun who would become its first President.
* 1916 – The last Emperor of China, Yuan Shikai, abdicates the throne and the Republic of China is restored.
Yuan Shikai was an adept politician and general.
This was followed by the dismissal of General Yuan Shikai from his former positions of power.
Seeing a desperate situation unfold, the Qing government brought an unwilling Yuan Shikai back to military power, taking control of his Beiyang Army, with the initial goal of crushing the revolutionaries.
After taking the position of Prime Minister and creating his own cabinet, Yuan Shikai went as far as to ask for the removal of Zaifeng from the regency.
With Zaifeng gone, Yuan Shikai and his Beiyang commanders effectively dominated Qing politics.
With permission from Empress Dowager Longyu, Yuan Shikai began negotiating with Sun Yat-sen, who decided that his goal had been achieved in forming a republic, and that therefore he could allow Yuan to step into the position of President of the Republic of China.
The most successful of these was the Beiyang Army under the overall supervision and control of a former Huai Army commander, General Yuan Shikai, who exploited his position to eventually become President of the Republic of China, dictator and finally abortive emperor of China.
A poster that commemorates the permanent President of the Republic of China Yuan Shikai and the provisional President of the Republic
* 1859 – Yuan Shikai, Chinese general and politician, President of the Republic of China ( d. 1916 )
* Following the assassination of his rival Song Jiaoren, Yuan Shikai uses military force to dissolve China's parliament and rules as a dictator.
* Yuan Shikai, President of the Republic of China and briefly Emperor
* September 16 – Yuan Shikai, Chinese dictator ( d. 1916 )
** The last Emperor of China, Yuan Shikai, abdicates the throne and the Republic of China is restored.
* June 6 – Yuan Shikai, Chinese military official and politician ( b. 1859 )
* December 12 – Chinese president Yuan Shikai declares himself Emperor.
In 1912 the troops of Lu and Feng Yuxiang, now subordinates of Yuan Shikai, were regrouped and Feng had then been Song's superior.
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Yuan Shikai was born in the village of Zhangying ( 張營村 ), Xiangcheng County, Chenzhou Prefecture, Henan, though the clan later moved 16 kilometers southeast of Xiangcheng to a hilly area that was easier to defend.
On January 16, while returning to his residence, Yuan Shikai was ambushed in a bomb attack organized by the Tongmenghui in Donghuamen ( 東華門 ), Tientsin, Beijing.
The Chongzhen Emperor had taken the reign in 1627 at the age of 16, and in 1629 ( at the age of 18 ) he appointed Yuan Chonghuan.
Yuan became prime minister on 16 November.
Jayaatu Khan ( Mongolian: Заяат хаан,, 1304 – 1332 ), born Tugh Temür, also known as Emperor Wenzong of Yuan ( Chinese: 元文宗, 16 February 1304 – 2 September 1332 ), was an Emperor of the Yuan Dynasty, and is regarded as the 12th Great Khan of the Mongols in Mongolia.
The Taiwanese Legislative Yuan approved the 2007 defence budget, which included funds for part of the arms purchases on June 16, 2007.
: 1. Chen primes were first described by Yuan, W. On the Representation of Large Even Integers as a Sum of a Product of at Most 3 Primes and a Product of at Most 4 Primes, Scienca Sinica 16, 157-176, 1973.
On February 16, 1998 the TEDA Group ( derived from the initials of Tianjin Economic-Technological Development Area ) would take over the club for 50 million Yuan, bring in the clubs first ever foreign coach and win premotion back to the top tier by winning the division title.
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According to sources, including the diary of Liang Qichao and contemporary Chinese news sources, Yuan Shikai arrived in Tianjin on 20 September 1898 by train.
Emperor Xiaowen of Northern Wei (( 北 ) 魏孝文帝 ) ( October 13, 467 – April 26, 499 ), personal name né Tuoba Hong ( 拓拔宏 ), later Yuan Hong ( 元宏 ), was an emperor of the Chinese / Xianbei dynasty Northern Wei from September 20, 471 to April 26, 499.
The Executive Yuan of then-President Chen Shui-bian's administration officially approved the name Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport for the hub on September 6, 2006.
Yuan Shao and his half-brother Yuan Shu ( 袁術 ) played leading roles in the massacre of the eunuchs in September 189 and in the succeeding years both became regional warlords.
Yuan Chonghuan ( Wade-Giles: Yuan Chung-huan ; ; style names: Yuánsù ( Wade-Giles: Yuan-su ; Chinese: ) and Zìrú ( Wade-Giles: Tzu-ju ; Chinese: ); 6 June 1584 – 22 September 1630 ) was a famed patriot and military commander of the Ming Dynasty who battled the Manchus in Liaoning.
Gegeen Khan ( Mongolian: Шидэбал Гэгээн хаан, Shidebal Gegegen qaγan ), also known as Emperor Yingzong of Yuan ( Chinese: 元英宗, February 22, 1303 – September 4, 1323 ), born Shidibala, was the successor of Ayurbarwada to rule as Emperor of the Yuan Dynasty, and is regarded as the ninth Great Khan of the Mongols in Mongolia.
The Yuan army suffered heavy losses while both sides could not make any decisive victory in September.
In September, 1925, Yuan's force was reorganized as the Ninggang ( 宁冈 ) Security Regiment with Yuan as the regimental commander, and this is the first armed force in China that was under the control of Communist Party of China.
On September 30, 1927, Mao Zedong arrived at Sanwan ( 三湾 ) village of Yongxin ( 永新 ) county, just north of Jinggangshan, with the remnants from the abortive Autumn Harvest Uprising, and sent letters to both Yuan Wencai and Wang Zuo to ask their help to establish a communist base locally.
On September 30, 1927, Mao Zedong arrived at Sanwan ( 三湾 ) village of Yongxin ( 永新 ) county, just north of Jinggangshan, with the remnants from the abortive Autumn Harvest Uprising, and sent letters to both Yuan Wencai and Wang Zuo to ask their help to establish a communist base locally.
Yuan Longping (; Pinyin: Yuán Lóngpíng ; born September 7, 1930 ) is a Chinese agricultural scientist and educator, known for developing the first hybrid rice varieties in the 1970s.
* Hai Lu Jun Da Yuan Shuai (): Grand Marshal of the Navy and Army of the Republic of China was first established in Guangzhou on September 10, 1917.
According to a September 2009 BBC report, some department stores in Pyongyang even stopped accepting North Korean won, instead insisting upon payment in U. S. Dollars, Chinese Yuan, Euros, or even Japanese Yen.
When Tan heard that the Empress Dowager Cixi was brewing a scheme of putting the emperor under house arrest for initiating the new policies, he immediately visited general Yuan Shikai ( 袁世凯 ) on September 18, in the hope that Yuan's army may support the Reformation Movement and prevail over the opposition forces headed by Empress Cixi.
After Yuan Shikai came back to Tianjin on September 20, he betrayed them immediately by leaking all their conspiracy of overthrowing Ci Xi and regaining the power by the emperor from Ci Xi.
In September 1914, a merchant named Yuan Dazhang ( 袁大章 ) from Mukden was approved to set up the Mixi Coal Mine Company, which represents the regular production of coal in Jixi.
Yuan Zhen () ( 779 – September 2, 831 ), courtesy name Weizhi ( 微之 ), was a politician of the middle Tang Dynasty, but is more known as an important Chinese writer and poet.
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