1855 in China

Events from the year 1855 in China.

Incumbents

 * Xianfeng Emperor (5th year)

Viceroys

 * Viceroy of Zhili — Guiliang
 * Viceroy of Min-Zhe — Wang Yide
 * Viceroy of Huguang — Yang Pei then Guanwen
 * Viceroy of Shaan-Gan — Yi Tang
 * Viceroy of Liangguang — Ye Mingchen
 * Viceroy of Yun-Gui — Hengchun
 * Viceroy of Sichuan — Huang Zonghan
 * Viceroy of Liangjiang — Yiliang

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 (Taiping Rebellion) defeated, Taiping advance in Northern China halted
 * The 3,000 kilns at Jingdezhen, Jiangxi are destroyed by the Taipings
 * Miao Rebellion (1854–1873)
 * 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 (1854–1856)

Births

 * Gurun Princess Rong'an (7 May 1855 – 28 February 1875) was a princess of the Qing Dynasty
 * Xu Shichang (October 20, 1855 – June 5, 1939) 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 (December 10, 1855 – June 10, 1900) 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 (1855–1919); born as Baotian, courtesy name Mogeng, sobriquet as Modaoren and Biyuehezhu, was a Chinese painter in Qing Dynasty and Republic Period.
 * Ma Anliang (1855 – November 24, 1918) 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 (1855-1930) 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 (1789–1855), also known by other names, was the second Chinese Protestant convert and the first Chinese Protestant minister and evangelist
 * Empress Xiaojingcheng (19 June 1812 – 21 August 1855) 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