1669 in China

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Events from the year 1669 in China.

• Kangxi Emperor (8th year)
  • Regents — Oboi

• Viceroy of Zhili, Shandong and Henan — Bai Bingzhen (– July 28)^{[note 1]}
• Viceroy of Zhejiang — Liu Zhaoqi
• Viceroy of Fujian — Zhang Chaolin
• Viceroy of Chuan-Hu — Liu Zhaoqi
• Viceroy of Shan-Shaan — Moluo
• Viceroy of Liangguang — Zhou Youde, Jin Guangzu
• Viceroy of Yun-Gui — Gan Wenkun
• Viceroy of Liangjiang — Maleji

• Kangxi deposes his regent Oboi with help of his grandmother Grand Dowager Empress Xiaozhuang, who had raised him,^[who?][1] and has him executed. He takes full control of the empire from this point onward.
• a Chinese pharmaceutical company Tong Ren Tang (TRT; Chinese: 同仁堂) is founded in Beijing, which is now the largest producer of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM).^[2]
• In 1669, Lanbu (1642–1679), the third holder of the Prince Jingjin title, was demoted by the Kangxi Emperor from a qinwang (first-rank prince) to a feng'en zhenguo gong^[3]
• Chahar ruler Abunai showed disaffection with Manchu Qing rule, and is placed under house arrested in 1669 in Shenyang and the Kangxi Emperor gave his title to his son Borni^[4]
• poet, essayist, and art historian Zhou Lianggong holds a party at his Pavilion for Viewing Paintings in Nanjing.^[5] Later he is again accused of corruption
• Sino-Russian border conflicts

• Jiang Tingxi (simplified Chinese: 蒋廷锡; traditional Chinese: 蔣廷錫; pinyin: Jiǎng Tíngxí; Wade–Giles: Chiang T'ing-hsi, 1669–1732^[6]), courtesy name Yangsun (杨孙), was a Chinese painter, and an editor of the encyclopedia Complete Classics Collection of Ancient China.

• Yang Guangxian (Chinese: 楊光先, Xiao'erjing: ﻳْﺎ ﻗُﻮْا ﺷِﯿًﺎ) (1597–1669) a Chinese Muslim Confucian writer and astronomer who was the head of the Bureau of Astronomy (欽天監) from 1665 to 1669.

• Zhao, Erxun (1928). Draft History of Qing (Qing Shi Gao) (in Chinese).
• Spence, Jonathan D. (2002), "The K'ang-hsi Reign", in Peterson, Willard J. (ed.), Cambridge History of China, Vol. 9, Part 1: The Ch'ing Dynasty to 1800, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 120–182, ISBN 0521243343.