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 · Xingyang

Only showing Xingyang · 1 entries across 1 dynasties

Qin & Han221 BCE–220 CE

1 entries

Empires, roads, paper and the arrival of Buddhism.

  1. 203 BCEEvents

    The Hong Canal truce

    鸿沟之约

    Chu and Han drew a line east and west of the canal near Xingyang; the word for an unbridgeable gap comes from here.

    Xingyang