Region: China · Coordinates: 34.330, 108.720 · 16 events
| Year | Source | Account |
|---|---|---|
| 350 BC | Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji), Annals | He built Xianyang and raised the Jique towers; Qin moved its capital. |
| 350 BC | Zizhi Tongjian (Comprehensive Mirror) | Shang Yang built gate towers and palaces at Xianyang and moved the capital there; he banned fathers and sons from sharing a room, merged small villages into thirty-one counties, abolished the jingtian system and carried out other reforms. |
| 299 BC | Zizhi Tongjian (Comprehensive Mirror) | The King of Qin, hearing of the wisdom of Lord Mengchang, sent Prince Jingyang as a hostage to Qi to ask for him; Mengchang entered Qin and became chancellor. |
| 247 BC | Zizhi Tongjian (Comprehensive Mirror) | In the fifth month of summer, day bingwu, the King of Qin (Zhuangxiang) died and Crown Prince Zheng, aged thirteen, ascended the throne; state affairs were entrusted to Lü Buwei, Lord of Wenxin, whom the king called Zhongfu. |
| 238 BC | Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji), Annals | Lao Ai plotted rebellion at Qinian Palace; Changping Jun and Changwen Jun fought in Xianyang, beheaded several hundred and routed them, and all were captured. |
| 221 BC | Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji), Annals | He divided the world into thirty-six commanderies, gathered the weapons of the world in Xianyang to melt them, and moved 120,000 households of the wealthy to Xianyang. |
| 213 BC | Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji), Annals | At a banquet in the Xianyang Palace, Li Si rebutted Chunyu Yue's call for enfeoffment and proposed that all the Shi, Shu and hundred-school writings except the court's historical records (Qin Ji) be burned; the proposal was approved by imperial edict (the Burning of the Books). |
| 212 BC | Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji), Annals | When Lu Sheng and Hou Sheng fled, the Xianyang Confucians were investigated; more than four hundred and sixty who violated the ban were buried alive in pits at Xianyang, and Fusu, who had remonstrated, was sent to Meng Tian at Shangjun. |
| 212 BC | Zizhi Tongjian (Comprehensive Mirror) | Hou Sheng and Lu Sheng slandered the First Emperor and fled; the emperor had the Xianyang scholars questioned by censors, and more than four hundred sixty who had violated the ban were identified. |
| 210 BC | Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji), Annals | Going by the Straight Road to Xianyang, they began mourning; Hu Hai ascended the throne, and in the ninth month the First Emperor was buried at Mount Li. |
| 207 BC | Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji), Annals | Zhao Gao presented a deer and called it a horse, testing the loyalty of the officials; he harmed by law those who called it a deer ('pointing at a deer and calling it a horse'). |
| 206 BC | Book of Han (Hanshu), Imperial Annals | Xiang Yu moved west, massacred Xianyang, killed the surrendered Ziying and burned the Qin palaces; the people of Qin were deeply disappointed. |
| 206 BC | Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji), Annals | Xiang Yu went west and slaughtered Xianyang, killed the King of Qin Ziying and burned the palaces; the fire did not go out for three months. |
| 158 BC | Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji), Annals | With 30,000 Xiongnu entering Shangjun and another 30,000 entering Yunzhong, Zhou Yafu camped at Xiliu, Liu Li at Bashang, and Xu Li at Jimen to defend. |
| AD 626 | Old Book of Tang (Jiu Tangshu), Annals | Emperor Taizong went to the Weibian Bridge at Xianyang, sacrificed a white horse with Jieli, and made an oath; the Turks withdrew. |
| AD 784 | Zizhi Tongjian (Comprehensive Mirror) | At Xianyang, Li Huaiguang attacks by night and takes the camps of Li Jianhui and Yang Huiyuan. |