Taiping Rebellion
A self-proclaimed brother of Christ challenges the Qing
Hong Xiuquan, who claimed to be the brother of Christ, rose against the Qing and founded the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom with its capital at Nanjing. The civil war killed an estimated 20 to 30 million people, one of the deadliest conflicts of the 19th century.
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China's Taiping Rebellion (1850–1864) overlapped with the American Civil War and cost an estimated 20–30 million lives — many times more.
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