Portal:China/Anniversaries/January/January 4

Events

• 265 – Sima Yan, the successor to his father Sima Zhao as the Cao Wei regent, forces Cao Huan to abdicate the throne and establishes the Jin dynasty.
• 1951 – Korean War: Chinese and North Korean forces capture Seoul.
• 1970 – A magnitude 7.7 earthquake strikes Tonghai County, China, killing at least 15,000 people.

Births

• 1077 – Emperor Zhezong of Song (d. 1100)
• 1940 – Gao Xingjian, Chinese-French author and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate