1664 in China

Events from the year 1664 in China. Also known as 癸卯年 (Water Rabbit) 4360 or 4300 to 甲辰年 (Wood Dragon) 4361 or 4301.

Incumbents

 * Kangxi Emperor (3rd year)
 * Regents — Sonin, Ebilun, Suksaha, and Oboi

Viceroys

 * Viceroy of Zhili — Miao Cheng
 * Viceroy of Min-Zhe — Zhao Tingchen
 * Viceroy of Huguang — Zhang Changgeng
 * Viceroy of Shaanxi — Bai Rumei
 * Viceroy of Guangdong — Li Qifeng
 * Viceroy of Yun-Gui — Zhao Tingchen
 * Viceroy of Guizhou — Tong Yannian, Yang Maoxun
 * Viceroy of Yunnan — Bian Sanyuan
 * Viceroy of Sichuan — Li Guoying
 * Viceroy of Jiangnan — Lang Tingzuo

Events

 * January — Dutch fleets return to Batavia after Qing-Dutch alliance fails
 * Spring — Zheng Jing withdraws the last Zheng family forces on the mainland from Tongshan (桐山街道), Fujian
 * After failing talk the Zheng family into peacefully surrendering, Dutch Captain Herman de Bitter defeats a fleet at Penghu in August and temporarily occupies Keelung harbor
 * A planned Qing invasion of the Kingdom of Tungning led by Admiral Shi Lang and supported by the Dutch fleet in Taiwan fails to occur
 * Ming loyalist Zheng Huangyan (張煌言) is executed in Hangzhou
 * An imperial edict imposes another ban on footbinding
 * Changsha becomes the capital of Hunan province, having been upgraded from a superior prefecture
 * The British East India Company begins trade in China
 * Jesuit missionary and astronomer Adam Schall von Bell is tried due to accusations by Yang Guangxian
 * Sino-Russian border conflicts

Births

 * France — François Xavier d'Entrecolles (1664 – 1741); Chinese name: 殷弘绪, Yin Hongxu) a French Jesuit priest, who learned the Chinese technique of manufacturing porcelain through his investigations in China at Jingdezhen