1664 in China

Decades:	1640s; 1650s; 1660s; 1670s; 1680s;
See also:	Other events of 1664; History of China • Timeline • Years

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

January — Dutch fleets return to Batavia after Qing-Dutch alliance fails^[1]
Spring — Zheng Jing withdraws the last Zheng family forces on the mainland from Tongshan (桐山街道 [zh]), 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^[2]^[3]
Ming loyalist Zheng Huangyan (張煌言 [zh]) is executed in Hangzhou
An imperial edict imposes another ban on footbinding^[4]
Changsha becomes the capital of Hunan province, having been upgraded from a superior prefecture^[5]
The British East India Company begins trade in China^[6]
Jesuit missionary and astronomer Adam Schall von Bell is tried due to accusations by Yang Guangxian^[7]
Sino-Russian border conflicts

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

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^ Shepherd, John Robert (2019). Footbinding as Fashion: Ethnicity, Labor, and Status in Traditional China. University of Washington Press.
^ Kenneth Pletcher (ed.). The Geography of China: Sacred and Historic Places. The Rosen Publishing Group. p. 223.
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^ Jami, Catherine (2015). "Revisiting the Calendar Case (1664-1669): Science, Religion, and Politics in Early Qing Beijing". The Korean Journal for the History of Science.