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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. He came to believe that his celestial father, whom he saw in the visions, was God the Father, his celestial elder brother was Jesus Christ, and he had been directed to rid the world of demon worship. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Hong Xiuquan is the 2,272nd most popular politician (down from 1,797th in 2019), the 136th most popular biography from China (down from 129th in 2019) and the 86th 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 2,272 out of 19,576. Before him are Moinuddin Chishti, Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia, Isma'il ibn Ahmad, Victor Emmanuel I of Sardinia, Agathocles of Syracuse, and Philip V of Macedon. After him are Hanno the Great, Ivan I of Moscow, Abd al-Karim Qasim, Bertie Ahern, Vasily II of Moscow, and Nadezhda Alliluyeva.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1814, Hong Xiuquan ranks 11. Before him are Samuel Colt, Anders Jonas Ångström, Adolphe Sax, Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, Julius von Mayer, and Edwin Stanton. After him are Henri Nestlé, Jenny von Westphalen, James Joseph Sylvester, Prince Louis, Duke of Nemours, August Grisebach, and Eugène Charles Catalan. Among people deceased in 1864, Hong Xiuquan ranks 11. Before him are Benoît Paul Émile Clapeyron, Vuk Karadžić, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Cheoljong of Joseon, Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve, and Princess Charlotte of Denmark. After him are J. E. B. Stuart, William I of Württemberg, Archduchess Auguste Ferdinande of Austria, Leo von Klenze, Nana Asmaʼu, and Jean-Jacques Ampère.

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In China

Among people born in China, Hong Xiuquan ranks 136 out of 1,610. Before him are Chiang Ching-kuo (1910), Sun Ce (175), Gegeen Khan (1302), Tang of Shang (-1601), Wang Jingwei (1883), and Dorgon (1612). After him are Bolo Yeung (1946), Sun Jian (155), 1st Dalai Lama (1391), Ziying (-300), Kumārajīva (343), and Ei-ichi Negishi (1935).

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Among POLITICIANS In China

Among politicians born in China, Hong Xiuquan ranks 86. Before him are Lin Biao (1907), Chiang Ching-kuo (1910), Gegeen Khan (1302), Tang of Shang (-1601), Wang Jingwei (1883), and Dorgon (1612). After him are 1st Dalai Lama (1391), Ziying (-300), Emperor Guangwu of Han (-5), Emperor Ruizong of Tang (662), Zhengde Emperor (1491), and Empress Lü (-241).

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