China Illustrata, a book written by the JesuitAthanasius Kircher (1602-1680) is published. It compiles the 17th century European knowledge on the Chinese Empire and its neighboring countries[3]
Imperial Regent Sonin died on 12 August 1667. His death provoked a series of changes in the regency: just as the other regents, led by Oboi, tried to consolidate their power, the Kangxi emperor vied to assert his own power.[4]
The imperial Deliberative Council investigates Suksaha after he retires as regent.[5] Two days later on September 2, the Council ordered Suksaha and all his male kin arrested; on September 4, finding Suksaha guilty of twenty-four "grave crimes" and recommended that he and many of his male relatives be executed, along with many members of the imperial guard who had supposedly connived in Suksaha's schemes.[6]
Qing emissary Kong Yuanzhang is sent to Taiwan to convince Zheng Jing to surrender. Zheng refuses, citing prosperous trading conditions[7]
Russian former Qing soldier Gantimur, along with his relatives and forty elders of his tribe, went over to the Russians to seek an alliance. An immediate attempt made by the Qing authorities to secure his return by force was unsuccessful, and special envoys sent by order of the Kangxi Emperor were also unsuccessful persuading Gantimur to come back to the side of the Qing[8]
Wu Sangui submitted a request to the Kangxi Emperor, asking for permission to be relieved of his duties in Yunnan and Guizhou provinces, on the premise that he was ill, but Kangxi, not yet ready for a trial of strength with him, refused.[10]
^Zi Yan (2012). Famous Temples in China (in English and Chinese). Hefei, Anhui: Huangshan Publishing House. pp. 171–172. ISBN978-7-5461-3146-7.
^云南德宏纪行. CRI (in Chinese). 2006-12-20. Archived from the original on 2019-05-05. Retrieved 2019-05-05. Traveling notes of Dehong Dai and Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan
^Spence, Jonathan D. (2002), "The K'ang-hsi Reign", in Peterson, Willard J. (ed.), Cambridge History of China, Vol. 9, Part 1: The Ch'ing Dynasty to 1800, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 120–82, ISBN0521243343
^Spence (2002), Cambridge History of China, Vol. 9, Part 1: The Ch'ing Dynasty to 1800, p. 130
^Spence (2002), Cambridge History of China, Vol. 9, Part 1: The Ch'ing Dynasty to 1800, p. 130
^Cheng, Weichung (2013). War, Trade and Piracy in the China Seas (1622-1683). BRILL. p. 230.
^Zhang Yuhuan (2012). "Dewy Pine Trees All Over the Mountains: Ganlu Temple on Mount Jiuhua" 《满山松针尽挂甘露：九华山甘露寺》. 《图解中国著名佛教寺院》 [Illustration of Famous Buddhist Temples in China] (in Chinese). Beijing: Contemporary China Publishing House. p. 148. ISBN978-7-5154-0135-5.
Spence, Jonathan D. (2002), "The K'ang-hsi Reign", in Peterson, Willard J. (ed.), Cambridge History of China, Vol. 9, Part 1: The Ch'ing Dynasty to 1800, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 120–182, ISBN0521243343.
