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Events from the year 1665 in China.

Incumbents

• Kangxi Emperor (4th year)
  • Regents — Sonin, Ebilun, Suksaha, and Oboi

Viceroys

• Viceroy of Zhili — Miao Cheng (to July 4)
  • Viceroy of Zhili, Shandong and Henan — Zhu Changzuo (July 13 –)
• Viceroy of Zhejiang — Zhao Tingchen
• Viceroy of Fujian — Zhu Changzuo
• Viceroy of Huguang — Zhang Changgeng
• Viceroy of Shaanxi — Bai Rumei
• Viceroy of Guangdong — Li Qifeng
• Viceroy of Guangxi — Qu Jinmei
• Viceroy of Liangguang — Lu Xingzu
• Viceroy of Yun-Gui — Bian Sanyuan
• Viceroy of Sichuan — Li Guoying
• Viceroy of Jiangnan — Lang Tingzuo

1. authority transferred to Viceroy of Liangguang
2. authority transferred to Viceroy of Liangguang
3. office consolidated from Guangdong and Guangxi Viceroities
4. office consolidated from Yunnan and Guizhou Viceroities

Events

• October or November — Kangxi Emperor marries Lady Hešeri, granddaughter of his regent Sonin and she becomes Empress Xiaochengren
• Another planned Qing invasion of the Kingdom of Tungning fails to occur due to a typhoon
• An embassy from the East-India Company, a Dutch-language account of China by Johan Nieuhof is published. The book served as a major influence in the rise of chinoiserie in the early eighteenth century
• Sino-Russian border conflicts

References

1. *Wang, Sizhi; Feng, Erkang, eds. (2010), Kangxi shidian 康熙事典 [Events of the Kangxi reign], Beijing: Forbidden City Press, pp. 64–65, ISBN 9787513400190
2. Spence, Jonathan D. In Search of Modern China. W. W. Norton & Company. p. 44.
3. Wong, Young-tsu (2017). China's Conquest of Taiwan in the Seventeenth Century: Victory at Full Moon. Springer. p. 113.
4. Nieuhof, Johan. "An embassy from the East-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham, emperor of China; Englished and set forth with their several sculptures by John Ogilby". Jacob van Meurs. Retrieved 7 May 2014.

• Zhao, Erxun (1928). Draft History of Qing (Qing Shi Gao) (in Chinese).

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