Portal:China/Anniversaries/January/January 4
- Events
- 265 – Sima Yan, the successor to his father Sima Zhao as the Cao Wei regent, forces Cao Huan to abdicate the throne and establishes the Jin dynasty.
- 1951 – Korean War: Chinese and North Korean forces capture Seoul.
- 1970 – A magnitude 7.7 earthquake strikes Tonghai County, China, killing at least 15,000 people.
- Births
- 1077 – Emperor Zhezong of Song (d. 1100)
- 1940 – Gao Xingjian, Chinese-French author and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate