Cao Wei: Polity Style: 220-266 |
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| 10 (or 11) Dec 220 | Cáo Pī (曹丕), holding the title of Wèi wáng (魏王), acceded to the throne (Records of the Three States, ch. 2) [1] |
| 10 Dec 220 | Wèi (魏) | Wei [2] |
| 4 Feb 266 | last emperor of Cao Wei abdicated in favour of Sīmǎ Yán (司馬炎), holding the title of Jìn wáng (晉王), who acceded to the throne as the emperor of Jin on 8 Feb 266 (Records of the Three States, ch. 4) |
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| [1] | According to Records of the Three States, ch. 2, the ceremony of accession of Cáo Pī took place on 10 Dec 220. Annotations to Records of the Three States, citing a work known as Biography of the Xian Emperor (Xiàn dì zhuàn | 獻帝傳) dates the ceremony to 11 Dec 220. The same date is cited in Zīzhì Tòngjiàn, ch. 69. |
| [2] | Cao Wei (曹魏), i.e. the empire of Wei ruled by the family of Cáo, is a historical term used to avoid confusion with other polities which existed on the territory of China and used "Wei" as the name of the state. |
Last update: 20 Feb 2024