What the records say
- When
- 30 May 1626
- Kind
- Explosion
- Coordinates
- 39.90° N, 116.37° E
- Description
- explosion disaster in a gunpowder factory in Beijing
- Deaths
- 20000
6 sources record it
- Wikidata: air, rail, road, mining and industrial accidentsWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Wanggongchang Explosion in Beijing, China: a gunpowder factory explosion destroys part of the city and kills 20,000 people”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Durch die Wanggongchang-Explosion, die Explosion einer Schwarzpulver-Fabrik werden weite Teile von Peking, der Hauptstadt Chinas in der Zeit der Ming-Dynastie,…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Explosion de Wanggongchang à Pékin”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Chinese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “中国北京西南隅的工部王恭厂火药库发生王恭厂大爆炸，死伤2万多人，原因不明，朝野震惊，中外骇然，明熹宗下了一道罪己诏，表示要痛加省醒，告诫大小臣工“务要竭虑洗心办事，痛加反省”，并下旨发府库万两黄金赈灾。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “王恭廠大爆発”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page