1855 in China

Events from the year 1855 in China.

Incumbents

• Xianfeng Emperor (5th year)

Viceroys

• Viceroy of Zhili — Guiliang
• Viceroy of Min-Zhe — Wang Yide
• Viceroy of Huguang — Yang Pei then Guanwen
• Viceroy of Shaan-Gan — Yi Tang
• Viceroy of Liangguang — Ye Mingchen
• Viceroy of Yun-Gui — Hengchun
• Viceroy of Sichuan — Huang Zonghan
• Viceroy of Liangjiang — Yiliang

Events

• Nian Rebellion
• Zhang Lexing took direct action by launching attacks against government troops in central China
• By the summer, the fast-moving Nian cavalry, well-trained and fully equipped with modern firearms, had cut the lines of communication between Beijing and the Qing armies fighting the Taiping rebels in the south.
• Taiping Rebellion
• March — Northern Expedition (Taiping Rebellion) defeated, Taiping advance in Northern China halted
• The 3,000 kilns at Jingdezhen, Jiangxi are destroyed by the Taipings
• Miao Rebellion (1854–1873)
• Western naval campaigns against Chinese pirates
• Battle of the Leotung
• Battle of Ty-ho Bay
• Third plague pandemic, major bubonic plague pandemic that begins in Yunnan and later spread across China and into India
• Punti–Hakka Clan Wars begin
• Red Turban Rebellion (1854–1856)

Births

• Gurun Princess Rong'an (7 May 1855 – 28 February 1875) was a princess of the Qing Dynasty
• Xu Shichang (October 20, 1855 – June 5, 1939) was the President of the Republic of China, in Beijing, from 10 October 1918 to 2 June 1922. The only permanent president of the Beiyang government to be a civilian, his presidency was also the longest of the warlord era.
• Metrophanes, Chi Sung (December 10, 1855 – June 10, 1900) was the first Chinese Eastern Orthodox priest to be martyred. He was killed with his family members and church followers in 1900 during the Boxer Rebellion
• Ni Tian (1855–1919); born as Baotian, courtesy name Mogeng, sobriquet as Modaoren and Biyuehezhu, was a Chinese painter in Qing Dynasty and Republic Period.
• Ma Anliang (1855 – November 24, 1918) was a Hui born in Hezhou, Gansu, China. He became a general in the Qing dynasty army, and of the Republic of China.
• Bi Xiugu (1855-1930) also known as Xiao Baicai and Bi Jinlian was the main figure of a cause célèbre in 1870s China known as Yang Niawu and Xiao Baicai

Deaths

• Liang Fa (1789–1855), also known by other names, was the second Chinese Protestant convert and the first Chinese Protestant minister and evangelist
• Empress Xiaojingcheng (19 June 1812 – 21 August 1855) was an Imperial Noble Consort of the Daoguang Emperor of the Qing dynasty.
• Li Kaifang, killed in the Taiping Rebellion's Northern Expedition
• Bao Shichen, killed in the Taiping Rebellion's Northern Expedition

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