1855 in China
Events from the year 1855 in China.
Incumbents
Viceroys
- Viceroy of Zhili — Guiliang
- Viceroy of Min-Zhe — Wang Yide
- Viceroy of Huguang — Yang Pei then Guanwen
- Viceroy of Shaan-Gan — Yi Tang
- Viceroy of Liangguang — Ye Mingchen
- Viceroy of Yun-Gui — Hengchun
- Viceroy of Sichuan — Huang Zonghan
- Viceroy of Liangjiang — Yiliang
Events
- Nian Rebellion
- * Zhang Lexing took direct action by launching attacks against government troops in central China
- * By the summer, the fast-moving Nian cavalry, well-trained and fully equipped with modern firearms, had cut the lines of communication between Beijing and the Qing armies fighting the Taiping rebels in the south.
- Taiping Rebellion
- * March — Northern Expedition (Taiping Rebellion) defeated, Taiping advance in Northern China halted
- * The 3,000 kilns at Jingdezhen, Jiangxi are destroyed by the Taipings
- Miao Rebellion (1854–1873)
- Western naval campaigns against Chinese pirates
- * Battle of the Leotung
- * Battle of Ty-ho Bay
- Third plague pandemic, major bubonic plague pandemic that begins in Yunnan and later spread across China and into India
- Punti–Hakka Clan Wars begin
- Red Turban Rebellion (1854–1856)
Births
- Gurun Princess Rong'an was a princess of the Qing Dynasty
- Xu Shichang was the President of the Republic of China, in Beijing, from 10 October 1918 to 2 June 1922. The only permanent president of the Beiyang government to be a civilian, his presidency was also the longest of the warlord era.
- Metrophanes, Chi Sung was the first Chinese Eastern Orthodox priest to be martyred. He was killed with his family members and church followers in 1900 during the Boxer Rebellion
- Ni Tian ; born as Baotian, courtesy name Mogeng, sobriquet as Modaoren and Biyuehezhu, was a Chinese painter in Qing Dynasty and Republic Period.
- Ma Anliang was a Hui born in Hezhou, Gansu, China. He became a general in the Qing dynasty army, and of the Republic of China.
- Bi Xiugu also known as Xiao Baicai and Bi Jinlian was the main figure of a cause célèbre in 1870s China known as Yang Niawu and Xiao Baicai
Deaths
- Liang Fa, also known by other names, was the second Chinese Protestant convert and the first Chinese Protestant minister and evangelist
- Empress Xiaojingcheng was an Imperial Noble Consort of the Daoguang Emperor of the Qing dynasty.
- Li Kaifang, killed in the Taiping Rebellion's Northern Expedition
- Bao Shichen, killed in the Taiping Rebellion's Northern Expedition