Jiaqing Emperor
Emperor of China from 1796 to 1820 / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Jiaqing Emperor (13 November 1760 – 2 September 1820), also known by his temple name Emperor Renzong of Qing, personal name Yongyan, was the sixth emperor of the Manchu-led Qing dynasty and the fifth Qing emperor to rule over China proper. He was the 15th son of the Qianlong Emperor. During his reign, he prosecuted Heshen, the corrupt favorite of his father and attempted to restore order within the empire while curbing the smuggling of opium into China.
Jiaqing Emperor 嘉慶帝 | |||||||||||||||||
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Emperor of the Qing dynasty | |||||||||||||||||
Reign | 9 February 1796 – 2 September 1820 | ||||||||||||||||
Predecessor | Qianlong Emperor | ||||||||||||||||
Successor | Daoguang Emperor | ||||||||||||||||
Regent | Qianlong Emperor (1796–1799) | ||||||||||||||||
Prince Jia of the First Rank | |||||||||||||||||
Tenure | 1789 – 9 February 1796 | ||||||||||||||||
Born | (1760-11-13)13 November 1760 (乾隆二十五年 十月 六日) Old Summer Palace, Imperial City, Beijing | ||||||||||||||||
Died | 2 September 1820(1820-09-02) (aged 59) (嘉慶二十五年 七月 二十五日) Chengde Mountain Resort, Chengde | ||||||||||||||||
Burial | Chang Mausoleum, Western Qing tombs | ||||||||||||||||
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House | Aisin-Gioro | ||||||||||||||||
Dynasty | Qing | ||||||||||||||||
Father | Qianlong Emperor | ||||||||||||||||
Mother | Empress Xiaoyichun | ||||||||||||||||
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Traditional Chinese | 嘉慶帝 | ||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 嘉庆帝 | ||||||||||
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Assessments of his reign are mixed, either seen as the "beginning of the end" of the Qing dynasty, or as a period of moderate reform which presaged the intellectual movements of the 1860s.[1]