1855 in China

Incumbents

• Xianfeng Emperor

  Viceroys

• Viceroy of Zhili — Guiliang

  Events

• Nian Rebellion
• * Zhang Lexing took direct action by launching attacks against government troops in central China
• * By the summer, the fast-moving Nian cavalry, well-trained and fully equipped with modern firearms, had cut the lines of communication between Beijing and the Qing armies fighting the Taiping rebels in the south.
• Taiping Rebellion
• * March — Northern Expedition defeated, Taiping advance in Northern China halted
• * The 3,000 kilns at Jingdezhen, Jiangxi are destroyed by the Taipings
• Miao Rebellion
• Western naval campaigns against Chinese pirates
• * Battle of the Leotung
• * Battle of Ty-ho Bay
• Third plague pandemic, major bubonic plague pandemic that begins in Yunnan and later spread across China and into India
• Punti-Hakka Clan Wars begin
• Red Turban Rebellion

  Births

• Gurun Princess Rong'an was a princess of the Qing Dynasty
• Xu Shichang was the President of the Republic of China, in Beijing, from 10 October 1918 to 2 June 1922. The only permanent president of the Beiyang government to be a civilian, his presidency was also the longest of the warlord era.
• Metrophanes, Chi Sung was the first Chinese Eastern Orthodox priest to be martyred. He was killed with his family members and church followers in 1900 during the Boxer Rebellion
• Ni Tian, born as Baotian, courtesy name Mogeng, sobriquet as Modaoren and Biyuehezhu, was a Chinese painter in Qing Dynasty and Republic Period.
• Ma Anliang was a Hui born in Hezhou, Gansu, China. He became a general in the Qing dynasty army, and of the Republic of China.
• Bi Xiugu also known as Xiao Baicai and Bi Jinlian was the main figure of a cause célèbre in 1870s China known as Yang Niawu and Xiao Baicai

  Deaths

• Liang Fa, also known by other names, was the second Chinese Protestant convert and the first Chinese Protestant minister and evangelist
• Empress Xiaojingcheng was an Imperial Noble Consort of the Daoguang Emperor of the Qing dynasty.
• Li Kaifang, killed in the Taiping Rebellion's Northern Expedition
• Bao Shichen, killed in the Taiping Rebellion's Northern Expedition