Hong Xiuquan was a Chinese revolutionary and religious leader who founded the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and led the Taiping Rebellion against the Qing dynasty. After repeatedly failing the imperial civil service examinations, he experienced a series of visions that he came to interpret, through contact with Christian texts, as revealing him to be the younger brother of Jesus Christ sent to establish a Heavenly Kingdom of Great Peace on earth. He founded the God Worshipping Society, which grew into a mass movement, and in January 1851 launched the Taiping Rebellion, capturing Nanjing in 1853 and ruling from there as the self-proclaimed Heavenly King. Internal strife and mounting Qing military pressure gradually weakened his kingdom, and he died in the besieged capital in June 1864, shortly before Qing forces retook the city.
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Hong Xiuquan was the leader of the Taiping Rebellion...He was the self-proclaimed brother of Jesus Christ, who established the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.
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1 January 1814
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1 June 1864
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After repeatedly failing the imperial civil service examinations, he experienced a series of visions that he came to interpret, through contact with Christian texts, as revealing him to be the younger brother of Jesus Christ sent to establish a Heavenly Kingdom of Great Peace on earth.
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Hong Xiuquan (1 January 1814 - 1 June 1864), born Hong Huoxiu and with the courtesy name Renkun, was a Chinese revolutionary and religious leader who led the Taiping Rebellion against the Qing dynasty.
Participant In: Taiping Rebellion, Lead section, Taiping Heavenly Kingdom
He established the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom over large portions of southern China, with himself as its "Heavenly King".
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Hong Xiuquan (1 January 1814 - 1 June 1864), born Hong Huoxiu and with the courtesy name Renkun, was a Chinese revolutionary and religious leader who led the Taiping Rebellion against the Qing dynasty.
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