Chronicle

Three thousand years, one province.

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entries

10

eras

44

places

Henan is where a great deal of Chinese history happened first: farming villages, bronze capitals, the earliest writing, cave temples, the Song court. This page puts those events on one line you can filter — and on one map you can pin them to.

1 entries · Weihui

Only showing Weihui · 1 entries across 1 dynasties

Xia & Shangc. 2070–1046 BCE

1 entries

Bronze casting, oracle bones and the first walled capitals.

  1. c. 1027 BCEPeople

    Bi Gan and the first loyal remonstrance

    比干与忠谏

    A Shang prince who warned the king and was killed for it; his tomb temple at Weihui is still visited.

    Weihui