* 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

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 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.

The regnal names of some monarchs were long, for example Lý Thái Tổ, Lý Thái Tông, Jiajing Emperor and Emperor Gojong of the Korean Empire.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

The Sogas prevailed once again and Prince Hatsusebe acceded to the throne as Emperor Sushun in 587.

As in Normandy, his bishops and abbots were bound to him by feudal obligations ; and his right of investiture in the Norman tradition prevailed within his kingdom, during the age of the Investiture Controversy that brought excommunication upon the Salian Emperor Henry IV.

Two great cities, Osaka and Sakaii, have been burned to the ground, each one almost as big as London, and not one house left standing, and it is reported above 300, 000 men have lost their lives, “ yet the old Emperor Ogusho Same hath prevailed and Fidaia Same either been slain or fled secretly away, that no news is to be heard of him .” Jesuits, priests, and friars are banished by the emperor and their churches and monasteries pulled down ; they put the fault on the arrival of the English ; it is said if Fidaia Same had prevailed against the emperor, he promised them entrance again, when without doubt all the English would have been driven out of Japan.

In June 1858, shortly after the Qing Court agreed to the disadvantageous treaties, more hawkish ministers prevailed upon the Xianfeng Emperor to resist encroachment by the West.

This move was only the first step in fulfilling Vienna's long-held desire to obtain its own diocese ; in 1469, Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor prevailed upon Pope Paul II to grant Vienna its own bishop, to be appointed by the emperor.

The Inner Austrian line founded by Archduke Charles II prevailed again, when his son and successor as regent of Inner Austria Ferdinand II in 1619 became Archduke of Austria and Holy Roman Emperor as well as King of Bohemia and Hungary in 1620.

In 1463 Emperor Frederick III, having prevailed against the claims raised by his brother Albert VI of Austria, added the Imperial crown to the eagle and replaced the white in the shield and the checkered crescent with gold.

The government led by Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli, conferred the additional title upon her by an Act of Parliament, reputedly to assuage the monarch's irritation at being, as a mere Queen, notionally inferior to her own daughter ( Princess Victoria was the wife of the reigning German Emperor ); the Indian Imperial designation was also formally justified as the expression of Britain succeeding as paramount ruler of the subcontinent the former Mughal ' Padishah of Hind ', using indirect rule through hundreds of princely states formally under protection, not colonies, but accepting the British Sovereign as their suzerain.

* The Roman Forum commissioned by the late Emperor Trajan is completed with triumphal arches, columns, a market complex, and an enormous basilica that all of which replace hundreds of dwellings.

* Emperor Kankan Musa I of the Mali Empire arrives in Cairo on his hajj to Mecca, accompanied by an entourage numbering in the thousands and hundreds of pounds of gold.

It led to mutual killing of hundreds of thousands Jews, Greeks and Romans, ending with a total defeat of Jewish rebels and complete extermination of Jews in Cyprus and Cyrene by the newly installed Emperor Hadrian.

Some experts believe hundreds of thousands of university students, intellectuals and politicians ( including Emperor Haile Selassie ) were killed during Mengistu's rule.

In an emotional Interview after the coup NTR likened Naidu to Aurangzeb, The Mughal Emperor who jailed his father and killed his siblings to become the King of the Mughal Empire. He said it was unfortunate that the same was being repeated by Naidu after hundreds of years.

Emperor Hadrian expelled hundreds of thousands Jews from Judea, wiped the name off the maps, replaced it with Syria Palaestina, forbade Jews to set foot in Jerusalem.

What Westerners referred to as Nestorian Christianity flourished for hundreds of years, until Emperor Wuzong of the Tang dynasty adopted anti-religious measures in 845, expelling Buddhism, Christianity, and Zoroastrianism and confiscating their considerable assets.

The relations between the Emperor and Empress were very good, as evidenced by Emperor Taishō ’ s lack of interest in taking concubines, thus breaking with hundreds of years of imperial tradition, and by her giving birth to four sons.

With the invasion of the Mongol army, Emperor Gong of Song dynasty, called Zhào Xiǎn ( 趙顯 Chiu Hin ), fled with hundreds of thousands of Song people into the province of Guangdong in 1276.

The Japanese embassy hostage crisis began on 17 December 1996 in Lima, Peru, when 14 members of the Túpac Amaru Revolutionary Movement ( MRTA ) took hostage hundreds of high-level diplomats, government and military officials and business executives who were attending a party at the official residence of Japan's ambassador to Peru, Morihisa Aoki, in celebration of Emperor Akihito's 63rd birthday.

Esen encouraged hundreds of Mongol, Hami, and Samarkand based Muslim merchants to accompany his missions to the Ming Emperor.