Ruler · 801 – 884

Huang Chao

Lived 801 – 884; poet, military officer. Emperor of China of Chinese Empire, 881 – 884.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the reign.

Lived: 801 – 884; 83 years
In office: 3 years; one reign
Lines: 1; Chinese Empire
Left it: died by suicide; Wikidata's manner of death

Emperor of China

Chinese Empire · the 259th of 395 dated reigns · 221 BCE – 1917

255 before

Emperor Xuanzong of Tang846 – 859

Emperor Yizong of Tang859 – 873

Emperor Xizong of Tang873 – 888

Huang Chao881 – 884

Emperor Zhaozong of Tang888 – 900

Li Yu900 – 901

Emperor Zhaozong of Tang901 – 904

133 after

killed, executed or dead in battledeposed, abdicated, exiled or removeddied in officeleft alive by a regular roadending not on recorda second row: a reign that began before the last had ended — rival claimants, or a shared thronethis entry

Reigned 881 – 884 · 3 years · came to it aged 80

Came to it: seized power
Left it: died by suicideWikidata's manner of death: suicide; exsanguination

the term records: death in office

In 881, he proclaimed himself emperor of the newly established Qi dynasty, and held the title until his death in 884.

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