841 BC

Calendar year

The year 841 BC, is highly significant in ancient Chinese history, in that Sima Qian was able to construct a year-by-year chronology back to that point.^[1] Any earlier events in Chinese history cannot be confidently dated by historians.^[2]

Events

• The Compatriots Rebellion [zh] in Western Zhou dynasty. The Chinese people rioted against King Li of Zhou, who was then sent to exile at a place called Zhi.
• The start of Gonghe Regency, an interregnum period in Chinese history, after King Li of Zhou was exiled.
• The First Assyrian Invasion of Israel.^[3]

Births

Deaths

• Marquis Jing of Jin, the sixth ruler of the state of Jin.
• Baal-Eser II, king of Tyre.

References

1. Sima Qian. Records of the Grand Historian.
2. Lee, Yun Kuen (2002a), "Building the chronology of early Chinese history", Asian Perspectives, 41 (1): 15–42, doi:10.1353/asi.2002.0006, hdl:10125/17161, S2CID 67818363.
3. Michael C. Astour (1971). "841 B. C.: The First Assyrian Invasion of Israel". Journal of the American Oriental Society. 91 (3): 383–389.