Region: China · Coordinates: 36.330, 114.500 · 58 events
| Year | Source | Account |
|---|---|---|
| AD 82 | Book of the Later Han (Hou Hanshu), Annals | Emperor Zhang went to Ye and comforted the officials of Wei commandery and those below them. |
| AD 202 | Records of the Three Kingdoms (Sanguozhi) | After his defeat at Guandu, Yuan Shao vomited blood and died in the fifth month; Yuan Shang succeeded him, and Yuan Tan was stationed at Liyang. |
| AD 202 | Zizhi Tongjian (Comprehensive Mirror) | Yuan Shao, ashamed of his defeat, fell ill, vomited blood, and died in the fifth month. He had wanted to make his youngest son Shang his heir but could not say so; he adopted his eldest son Tan into the line of his elder brother and sent him as Governor of Qingzhou. |
| AD 204 | Book of the Later Han (Hou Hanshu), Annals | Cao Cao crushed Yuan Shang at Ye, pacified Jizhou and concurrently became Governor of Jizhou. |
| AD 204 | Records of the Three Kingdoms (Sanguozhi) | Cao Cao besieged Ye with earthen hills, tunnels, and a flood from the Zhang River, captured and beheaded Shen Pei, and Ye was pacified. |
| AD 204 | Zizhi Tongjian (Comprehensive Mirror) | In the fifth month Cao Cao tore down the earthen mounds and tunnels, and dug a moat around the city, encircling forty li of its surroundings. At first he dug shallow, and while Shen Pei mocked him, in one night he dug it two zhang deep, then led in the Zhang River to water it, so that half the city starved. |
| AD 204 | Zizhi Tongjian (Comprehensive Mirror) | When the army of Yuan Shang arrived, the generals wanted to avoid it, but Cao Cao said 'if they come by the main road we will avoid them; if they follow the western mountains we will capture them.' Yuan Shang followed the western mountains and camped at Yangping by the Fu River, seventeen li from Ye. At night torches signaled to those in the city. |
| AD 212 | Zizhi Tongjian (Comprehensive Mirror) | In the fifth month, on the day guiwei, Ma Teng, the Minister of the Guards, was executed with his entire three-generation clan. |
| AD 213 | Records of the Three Kingdoms (Sanguozhi) | The emperor invested Cao Cao as Duke of Wei, enfeoffed him with ten commanderies of Jizhou, and granted him the Nine Bestowals. |
| AD 216 | Records of the Three Kingdoms (Sanguozhi) | The emperor raised Cao Cao's rank to King of Wei. |
| AD 304 | Book of Jin (Jinshu), Imperial Annals | Wang Jun crushed Prince Chengdu Ying at Ye with Wuhuan cavalry; Ying and Emperor Hui fled to Luoyang. |
| AD 307 | Book of Jin (Jinshu), Imperial Annals | Ji Sang, chief of the horse herders, rebelled, took Ye, killed Prince Teng of Xincai, and burned the Ye Palace. |
| AD 307 | Zizhi Tongjian (Comprehensive Mirror) | Ji Sang gathered followers and plundered commanderies and counties, calling himself Grand General and claiming revenge for the Prince of Chengdu; with Shi Le as vanguard, he won wherever he went and at last attacked Ye. |
| AD 349 | Book of Jin (Jinshu), Imperial Annals | Shi Hu declared himself emperor at Ye. |
| AD 350 | Book of Jin (Jinshu), Imperial Annals | Ran Min assassinated Shi Jian and founded Wei (intercalary first month). |
| AD 350 | Zizhi Tongjian (Comprehensive Mirror) | When Prince Kun of Runan, Zhang Ju and Wang Lang attacked Ye with seventy thousand, the Grand General Min met them north of the city with a thousand cavalry and struck, beheading three thousand, so that Kun and the others were greatly defeated and withdrew. |
| AD 350 | Zizhi Tongjian (Comprehensive Mirror) | Min and Nong hurriedly returned, deposed and killed Shi Jian, and also killed thirty-eight grandsons of Zhao ruler Hu, wiping out the entire Shi clan. |
| AD 352 | Book of Jin (Jinshu), Imperial Annals | Ran Min's son Zhi surrendered, opening Ye; Dai Shi obtained the imperial seal of transmission and sent it on. |
| AD 360 | Zizhi Tongjian (Comprehensive Mirror) | On day wuzi, Crown Prince Wei ascended the throne at age eleven. |
| AD 370 | Book of Jin (Jinshu), Imperial Annals | Wang Meng of Former Qin took Ye, captured Murong Wei, and seized all the lands of the Former Yan. |
| AD 384 | Zizhi Tongjian (Comprehensive Mirror) | Yan King Chui led more than two hundred thousand Dingling and Wuhuan and attacked Ye with flying ladders and tunnels, but could not take it, so he built a long encirclement to hold it, placed the old and the weak at Feixiang, and built Xinxing city to serve as a supply base. |
| AD 398 | History of the Northern Dynasties (Beishi), Annals | He reached Ye, toured the palace grounds, intending to fix the capital there, and set up a temporary governing office (xingtai). |
| AD 398 | Book of Wei (Weishu), Imperial Annals | He surveyed Ye, showing his intention to fix the capital there, and set up a temporary palace. |
| AD 493 | History of the Northern Dynasties (Beishi), Annals | The new palace built west of Ye was completed, and he moved there to reside. |
| AD 532 | Book of Northern Qi (Bei Qishu), Annals | Liu Dan, Governor of Xiangzhou, defended the city stubbornly, but Gao Huan attacked with earthen mounds and tunnels, took Ye and occupied it. |
| AD 532 | History of the Northern Dynasties (Beishi), Annals | Gao Huan took the city of Ye after an assault using earthen mounds and tunnels, and made it his base. |
| AD 532 | Book of Wei (Weishu), Imperial Annals | Gao Huan took Ye and captured the prefect Liu Dan alive. |
| AD 534 | Book of Northern Qi (Bei Qishu), Annals | Luoyang was close to the west and bordered Liang, so its position was unfavorable. They debated moving the capital to Ye, and within three days of the edict, 400,000 households set out. |
| AD 534 | History of the Northern Dynasties (Beishi), Annals | Gao Huan enthroned Yuan Shanjian (Emperor Xiaojing) and moved the capital to Ye, splitting Wei into east and west. |
| AD 534 | History of the Northern Dynasties (Beishi), Annals | Emperor Xiaojing of Eastern Wei ascended the throne and moved his carriage north to Ye. |
| AD 534 | Book of Wei (Weishu), Imperial Annals | Eastern Wei moved its capital to Ye. |
| AD 539 | Book of Wei (Weishu), Imperial Annals | The new palace was completed; the great ceremony was held in Ye and the era was changed. |
| AD 547 | Book of Northern Qi (Bei Qishu), Annals | On the 8th month, day jiashen, he was buried west of the Zhang River, northwest of Ye, and Emperor Xiaojing saw him off at Zimo. |
| AD 549 | Book of Northern Qi (Bei Qishu), Annals | On the 7th month, day xinmao, Gao Cheng (aged 29) was killed in Dongbo Hall by six men led by Lan Jing, son of Lan Qin, who had been captured from Liang. Gao Yang rushed in, cut down Lan Jing's group, and concealed the mourning. |
| AD 550 | Book of Northern Qi (Bei Qishu), Annals | On the 5th month, day xinhai, Gao Yang went to Ye (in preparation for abdication). |
| AD 550 | History of the Northern Dynasties (Beishi), Annals | Gao Yang (Emperor Wenxuan) ascended at the southern suburban altar, founding Northern Qi and changing the era. (The source continues with a presentation at Ye, 鄴下 適作, left as given.) |
| AD 558 | Book of Northern Qi (Bei Qishu), Annals | The Three Terraces of Ye (Jinfeng, Shengying and Chongguang) were completed. Gao Yang came from Jinyang, climbed the terraces for a feast, and granted a general amnesty. |
| AD 560 | Book of Northern Qi (Bei Qishu), Annals | At a feast in the chancellery, Gao Yan (Prince of Changshan) seized the Shangshu Ling Yang Yin, Yan Zixian, Kezhu Huntianhe and Song Qindao, and in the Yufu he beheaded Zheng Zimo too, taking power. (Juan 5 records the same incident on the day yisi of the second month.) |
| AD 568 | Book of Northern Qi (Bei Qishu), Annals | In the twelfth month, on the day xinwei, the Taishang Huangdi (Emperor Wucheng) died in the Qianshou Hall of the Ye palace at age 32. |
| AD 571 | Book of Northern Qi (Bei Qishu), Annals | In the seventh month, on the day gengwu, Taibao Prince Gao Yan of Langye forged an imperial edict and killed the Minister in charge of the Secretariat, He Shikai, at the Southern Terrace; the same day he executed Shedi Fulian and others, and Feng Ziqong took his own life inside the palace. (Gao Yan was killed in the ninth month.) |
| AD 572 | Book of Northern Qi (Bei Qishu), Annals | In the seventh month, on the day wuchen, Left Chancellor Prince Xianyang Hulü Guang and his younger brother Hulü Fengle, governor of Youzhou, were executed. |
| AD 573 | Book of Northern Qi (Bei Qishu), Annals | On the tenth month, on the day xinchou, Gentleman of the Palace Cui Jishu and five others were killed. (Two days later, on the day guimao, the emperor went to Jinyang.) |
| AD 576 | Book of Northern Qi (Bei Qishu), Annals | On the twelfth month, on the day gengshen, the Later Ruler entered Ye; discussion of abdication followed. |
| AD 577 | Book of Northern Qi (Bei Qishu), Annals | In the first month, on the day yihai, the eight-year-old infant ruler Gao Heng ascended the throne and changed the era to Chengguang; the Later Ruler became Taishang Huang. Yan Zhitui and others urged raising troops beyond the river and seeking refuge in Chen. |
| AD 577 | Book of Northern Qi (Bei Qishu), Annals | In the first month, on the day jichou, Zhou troops reached Zimo Bridge; on the day guisi the west city gate burned, and the Taishang Huang fled east with about a hundred riders. The fall of Ye was imminent. |
| AD 577 | History of the Northern Dynasties (Beishi), Annals | When the Zhou army drew near, the infant ruler fled east from Ye. |
| AD 577 | History of the Northern Dynasties (Beishi), Annals | He besieged Ye, defeated the defenders, and pacified it (the Northern Qi capital fell). |
| AD 577 | Book of Zhou (Zhoushu), Imperial Annals | Emperor Wu besieges Ye and pacifies it; the Qi ruler flees to Qingzhou |
| AD 579 | Book of Zhou (Zhoushu), Imperial Annals | Emperor Xuan hands the throne to his crown prince Yuwen Yan at Ye and calls himself Heavenly Emperor (Tianyuan Huangdi) |
| AD 580 | History of the Northern Dynasties (Beishi), Annals | Yuchi Jiong, governor-general of Xiangzhou, refused to be replaced and rose in revolt, opposing Yang Jian's seizure of power. |
| AD 580 | History of the Northern Dynasties (Beishi), Annals | Wei Xiaokuan defeated Yuchi Jiong at Ye; Jiong took his own life, and Xiangzhou was pacified. |
| AD 580 | Book of Sui (Suishu), Imperial Annals | At Ye, Yuchi Jiong, Governor of Xiangzhou and senior minister, grew resentful and rose in the east; people of Zhao and Wei joined, and within ten days they numbered over a hundred thousand. |
| AD 580 | Book of Sui (Suishu), Imperial Annals | Wei Xiaokuan defeated Yuchi Jiong at Xiangzhou, sent his head to the capital and pacified the remaining rebels. |
| AD 580 | Book of Zhou (Zhoushu), Imperial Annals | Yuchi Jiong, governor-general of Xiangzhou, refuses to be replaced and rises in revolt; Wei Xiaokuan is sent as Field Marshal to suppress him |
| AD 580 | Book of Zhou (Zhoushu), Imperial Annals | Wei Xiaokuan defeats Yuchi Jiong at Ye City; Jiong kills himself, and Xiangzhou is pacified. Ye City is torn down and Xiangzhou is moved to Anyang |
| AD 758 | New Book of Tang (Xin Tangshu), Annals | The Nine Jiedushi besieged An Qingxu at Xiangzhou, and Wang Sili defeated the enemy at Xiangzhou. |
| AD 759 | New Book of Tang (Xin Tangshu), Annals | The army of the Nine Jiedushi collapsed at the Fu River, and Shi Siming killed An Qingxu (the great defeat at Xiangzhou). |
| AD 916 | Old History of the Five Dynasties (Jiu Wudai shi), Annals | Zhang Yun, military governor of Xiangzhou, abandoned his city and fled, and Yuan Jianfeng became prefect of Xiangzhou. |