The Daoguang emperor dies at sixty-eight on…
1850 CE
The Daoguang emperor dies at sixty-eight on February 25, 1850.
By the time the nineteen-year-old Xianfeng Empeor succeeds to the throne, the Qing dynasty's empire is on the verge of disintegration.
Only a few months after he becomes emperor, the Manchu government orders the imperial troops to break up the God Worshippers society in South China's Kwangsi and Kwangtung provinces.