Having usurped the throne of Emperor Gong of Jin, Liu Yu proclaims himself Emperor of the Liu Song dynasty.

AD 420

Calendar year

Year 420 (CDXX) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Theodosius and Constantius. The denomination 420 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era…

Emperor Gong of Jin

Emperor of the Eastern Jin dynasty from 419 to 420

Emperor Gong of Jin, personal name Sima Dewen, was the last emperor of the Eastern Jin Dynasty (266–420) in China. He became emperor in January 419 after his developmentally disabled brother Emperor An was killed by the regent Liu Yu, and during his brief reign, actual power was…

Emperor Wu of Song

Emperor of Liu Song from 420 to 422

Emperor Wu of (Liu) Song, personal name Liu Yu (劉裕), courtesy name Dexing (德興), childhood name Jinu (寄奴), was a Chinese statesman and strategist in the late Eastern Jin dynasty, and the founding emperor of the Liu Song dynasty of China. He came from a humble background, but…

List of emperors of the Southern dynasties

The Southern dynasties describe a succession of Chinese empires that coexisted alongside a series of Northern dynasties. The era is generally described as the Northern and Southern dynasties, lasting from 420–589 AD after the Jin and before the Sui dynasty.

Liu Song dynasty

Chinese ruling dynasty from 420 to 479

Song, known as Liu Song, Former Song (前宋) or Song of (the) Southern dynasties (南朝宋) in historiography, was an imperial dynasty of China and the first of the four Southern dynasties during the Northern and Southern dynasties period. It succeeded the Eastern Jin dynasty and…

July 10

Day of the year

July 10 is the 191st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 174 days remain until the end of the year.