1662 in China

Incumbents

• Kangxi Emperor
• * 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

• February 1 — Siege of Fort Zeelandia concludes with Dutch forces in Taiwan surrendering to Zheng Chenggong
• February 18 — The Kangxi era begins with the start of the following Lunar Year
• Spring — the regents ordered a Great Clearance in southern China that evacuated the entire population from the seacoast to counter a resistance movement started by Ming loyalists under the leadership of Taiwan-based Ming general Koxinga, also known as Zheng Chenggong
• June 1 — Zhu Youlang, the Yongli Emperor of Southern Ming, is captured in killed by forces led by Wu Sangui, while in Toungoo dynasty-ruled Burma. The last of the Ming dynasty pretenders have been defeated.
• June 23 — Koxinga dies in Anping, Taiwan of Malaria, his son Zheng Jing takes over the Zheng regime, later leading the remaining 7,000 Ming loyalist troops to Taiwan
• An imperial edict banning footbinding is put in place. This is the first one imposed on all of China
• For his efforts defeating Ming loyalist forces, Wu Sangui is rewarded with the title of Pingxi Wang with a fief in Yunnan by the Qing imperial court, Guizhou is added to his domain later that year
• Kaifeng repopulated after most residents are killed in the devastating 1642 man-made flood designed to lift the siege from Li Zicheng’s rebel forces
• Sino-Russian border conflicts

  Births

• Shanxi — Cao Ji Wu, a master of the internal martial art of Xinyi, precursor of Xingyi
• Xiamen — Zheng Kezang, the crown prince and regency of Kingdom of Tungning. Kezhang was the eldest son of Zheng Jing and Chen Zhao-niang, and his grandparents were Koxinga and Princess Dong
• Tian Wenjing, styled Yiguang, a prominent mandarin who lived during the reign of the Kangxi and Yongzheng Emperors of the Qing Dynasty

  Deaths

• June 23 — Koxinga, Zheng Chenggong, Prince of Yanping, was a Chinese Ming loyalist who resisted the Qing conquest of China in the 17th century, fighting them on China's southeastern coast
• Ji Jike — a highly accomplished martial artist from Yongji, Shanxi Province. Also known as Ji Longfeng, he is widely considered to be the originator of the internal martial art of Xingyiquan
• Empress Xiaogangkuang — a Chinese Empress consort of the Southern Ming Dynasty, empress to the Yongli Emperor
• Li Dingguo — a military general who fought for the Southern Ming against the Qing Dynasty
• Zhu Yihai — ruled as the Gengyin Emperor of the Southern Ming Dynasty from reigning from 1645 to 1655