CChronica Maps

Guangzhou: History, Former Names & Timeline

Southern trading city for two thousand years, a starting point of the Maritime Silk Road and, under the Qing, China's only port open to Western trade.

Map showing Guangzhou in 1815Guangzhou
Border map for 1815. See the world in 1815.

Explore Guangzhou in the interactive map

Former names of Guangzhou

FromNameNote
214 BCPanyu
AD 226Guangzhou / Canton

Timeline of Guangzhou

YearEvent
204 BCZhao Tuo founds the kingdom of Nanyue with its capital at Panyu
1757The Qing restricts Western trade to Canton alone
1839Lin Zexu destroys the opium stocks at Humen
1911The Huanghuagang Uprising

Who ruled Guangzhou

Derived from the border maps; each row runs until the next recorded border change.

PeriodState
500 BC–401 BCUnclaimed / no data
400 BC–324 BCAustro-Asiatic rice cultures
323 BC–201 BCUnclaimed / no data
200 BC–2 BCHan Empire
1 BC–299Han
300–499Jin
500–599Jin Empire
600–799Sui Empire
800–999Tang Empire
1000–1299Song Empire
1300–1491Great Khanate
1492–1499Ming Empire
1500–1649Ming Chinese Empire
1650–1782Post-Ming Warlords
1783–1814Qing Empire
1815–1919Manchu Empire
1920–1937Chinese Warlords
1938–1944Chinese warlords
1945–todayChina

Battles and sites near Guangzhou

Nearby cities