1847 in China

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Events from the year 1847 in China.

Incumbents

Viceroy of Zhili — Nergingge
Viceroy of Min-Zhe — Yang Yizeng
Viceroy of Huguang — Yutai
Viceroy of Shaan-Gan — ?
Viceroy of Liangguang — Qiying
Viceroy of Yun-Gui — Lin Zexu, Lin Xingyuan
Viceroy of Sichuan — Qishan
Viceroy of Liangjiang:
- Bichang (21 January 1845 - 30 April 1847)
- Lu Jianying (8 March 1847 - 30 April 1847, Stand-in as Provincial Governor of Jiangsu)
- Li Xingyuan (30 April 1847 – 26 April 1849, Left office due to illness)

March — Treaty of Canton, the first treaty made between Sweden-Norway and the Chinese Empire^[1]
August 27 — Hong Xiuquan returned to the Thistle Mountains from Hua County, the God Worshipers numbered over 2,000.^[2]^[3] At this time, most God Worshippers were peasants and miners.^[3]
The Presbyterian Church of England founded and resolved to establish a mission in China. The Rev. William Chalmers Burns went first to Hong Kong and then to Amoy
American Methodist Episcopal Society (North) entered the field of China

Au Fung-Chi (1847–1914), the secretary of the Hong Kong Department of Chinese Affairs

^ Liljevalch, Carl Fredrik. (1848). Chinas handel: industri och Statsforfattning, p. 22., p. 22, at Google Books
^ Jonathan D. Spence, God's Chinese Son 95 (1996)
^ ^a ^b Franz H. Michael, The Taiping Rebellion: History 31 (1966)

Martin, Robert Montgomery. China, Political, Commercial, and Social, 2 vols. 1847.