1849 in China

Incumbents

• Daoguang Emperor

  Viceroys

• Viceroy of Zhili — Nergingge
• Viceroy of Min-Zhe — Liu Yunke
• Viceroy of Huguang — Yutai
• Viceroy of Shaan-Gan — Qishan
• Viceroy of Liangguang — Xu Guangjin
• Viceroy of Yun-Gui — Cheng Yucai
• Viceroy of Sichuan:
• * Qishan
• * Xu Zechun
• Viceroy of Liangjiang — Li Xingyuan

  Events

• 6 April — Shanghai French Concession created
• Jianmoda Monastery built in modern Qinghai
• August — The Passaleão incident, a conflict between Portugal and China over Macau in August 1849
• 28–29 September — Battle of Tysami, a military engagement involving a warship from the British China Squadron and the Chinese pirates of Chui A-poo

  Births

• Lu Zhongyi was the seventeenth patriarch of Yiguan Dao
• Hong Tianguifu, son of Hong Xiuquan, the second and last king of the Heavenly Kingdom of Taiping
• Sir Boshan Wei Yuk, CMG JP a prominent Hong Kong businessman and member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong.
• Wong Nai Siong as a Chinese revolutionary leader and educator from Minqing county in Fuzhou, Fujian province, China.

  Deaths