1672 in China

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Events from the year 1672 in China.

Incumbents

• Kangxi Emperor (11th year)

Events

• Hongfu Temple (Guiyang) (弘福寺; Hóngfú Sì) a Buddhist temple located on Mount Qianling, in Yunyan District of Guiyang, Guizhou, is first built[1]
• Sino-Russian border conflicts

Births

• March 12 — Yunzhi, Prince Zhi (1672 – 1735), also known as Yunzhi, formally known as Prince Zhi of the Second Rank between 1698 and 1708, a Manchu prince of the Qing dynasty
• October 29 — Zhang Tingyu (張廷玉 1672 – 1755) Han Chinese politician and historian who lived in the Qing dynasty serving the Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong emperors

Deaths

• Lu Shiyi, (b. 1611) Confucian scholar[2]
• Zhou Lianggong, (b. 1612) artist, writer, and official serving Ming and Qing dynasties

References

1. 中华寺庙 by 李少林
2. Cambridge History of China Vol. 9. p. 234

• Zhao, Erxun (1928). Draft History of Qing (Qing Shi Gao) (in Chinese).
• Spence, Jonathan D. (2002), "The K'ang-hsi Reign", in Peterson, Willard J. (ed.), Cambridge History of China, Vol. 9, Part 1: The Ch'ing Dynasty to 1800, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 120–182, ISBN 0521243343.