The Forbidden City is a vast walled palace complex in the heart of Beijing, China, which served as the home of emperors and the centre of government for almost five hundred years. It was built in the early fifteenth century under the Ming emperor Yongle, who moved the capital to Beijing, and it was used by the Ming and Qing dynasties until the last emperor, Puyi, left it in the 1920s. The date shown here does not mark the main building campaign. Its hundreds of buildings, courtyards and halls follow a strict symmetrical plan. The complex became the Palace Museum in 1925 and was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1987.
Before and after
- 30 December 1922Treaty on the Creation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
- from 30 December 1922 to 26 December 1991Soviet Union
- 1923Rise of serialism
- 1923Brønsted–Lowry acid–base theory
- 1923Construction of Forbidden City
- from 11 January 1923 to 25 August 1925Occupation of the Ruhr
- 4 February 1923Birth of Conrad Bain
- 10 February 1923Death of Wilhelm Röntgen
- 3 March 1923Time
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