POLITICIAN

Hong Xiuquan

1814 - 1864

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Hong Xiuquan (1 January 1814 – 1 June 1864), born Hong Huoxiu and with the courtesy name Renkun, was a Chinese revolutionary and religious leader who led the Taiping Rebellion against the Qing dynasty. He established the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom over large portions of southern China, with himself as its "Heavenly King". Born into a Hakka family in Guangzhou, Hong claimed to have experienced mystical visions after failing the imperial examinations. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hong Xiuquan has received more than 1,824,597 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 38 in 2019). Hong Xiuquan is the 1,797th most popular politician (up from 1,800th in 2019), the 128th most popular biography from China (up from 137th in 2019) and the 85th most popular Chinese Politician.

Hong Xiuquan is most famous for being the leader of the Taiping Rebellion, which was a civil war in China that lasted from 1850 to 1864.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Hong Xiuquan ranks 1,797 out of 19,576. Before him are Jehoram of Judah, Antonia Minor, Charles II of Navarre, Mieszko I of Poland, Xerxes II of Persia, and Ferdinand IV, King of the Romans. After him are Ferdinand I of Naples, Isaac I Komnenos, Catherine Cornaro, Meñli I Giray, Bahadur Shah Zafar, and Lothair II, Holy Roman Emperor.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1814, Hong Xiuquan ranks 11. Before him are Mikhail Lermontov, Adolphe Sax, Anders Jonas Ångström, Julius von Mayer, Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, and Henri Nestlé. After him are Jenny von Westphalen, August Grisebach, James Joseph Sylvester, Prince Louis, Duke of Nemours, Juan Prim, 1st Count of Reus, and Pierre-Jules Hetzel. Among people deceased in 1864, Hong Xiuquan ranks 7. Before him are George Boole, Ferdinand Lassalle, Maximilian II of Bavaria, Cheoljong of Joseon, Giacomo Meyerbeer, and Vuk Karadžić. After him are Nathaniel Hawthorne, Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron, William I of Württemberg, Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve, Leo von Klenze, and Konstanty Kalinowski.

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In China

Among people born in China, Hong Xiuquan ranks 128 out of 1,610. Before him are Milarepa (1052), Songtsen Gampo (604), Hyeonjong of Joseon (1641), Kaidu (1230), Emperor Huizong of Song (1082), and Kumārajīva (343). After him are Bai Qi (-250), Jiang Ziya (-1090), Chenghua Emperor (1447), Zhang Qian (-200), Sun Jian (155), and Bai Juyi (772).

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Among POLITICIANS In China

Among politicians born in China, Hong Xiuquan ranks 85. Before him are Bao Zheng (999), Chiang Ching-kuo (1910), Songtsen Gampo (604), Hyeonjong of Joseon (1641), Kaidu (1230), and Emperor Huizong of Song (1082). After him are Jiang Ziya (-1090), Chenghua Emperor (1447), Hongzhi Emperor (1470), Wang Jingwei (1883), Yang Shangkun (1907), and Emperor Jing of Han (-188).

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