Ruler · 851 – 841 BCE

King Li of Zhou

Lived 851 – 841 BCE; monarch. King of Zhou dynasty, 877 BCE – 841 BCE; also in the line of Western Zhou.

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Lived: 851 BCE – 841 BCE; 10 years
In office: 36 years; one reign
Lines: 2; states
Left it: ending not on record; nothing on record

King

Zhou dynasty · the 9th of 37 dated reigns · 1042 BCE – 256 BCE

5 before

King Gong of Zhou921 BCE – 909 BCE

King Yih of Zhou909 BCE – 884 BCE

King Xiao of Zhou884 BCE – 875 BCE

King Li of Zhou877 BCE – 841 BCE

King Yi of Zhou875 BCE – 864 BCE

King Xuan of Zhou827 BCE – 781 BCE

King You of Zhou781 BCE – 771 BCE

25 after

killed, executed or dead in battledied in officeending not on recorda second row: a reign that began before the last had ended — rival claimants, or a shared thronethis entry

Reigned 877 BCE – 841 BCE · 36 years

Left it: ending not on recordnothing on record: no death date to read the end against

Also in the line of Western Zhou (9th of 11).

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