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Rebellion of Xie Hui

The Rebellion of Xie Hui (谢晦之乱) was a 426 armed rising by Xie Hui, Liu Song governor of Jingzhou, against Emperor Wen; Tan Daoji defeated and killed him.

Rebellion of Xing Gao

The Rebellion of Xing Gao (邢杲之乱) was an armed rising led by the Hebei great-family head Xing Gao in Qingzhou during the last years of Northern Wei.

Rebellion of Xu Jingye

The Rebellion of Xu Jingye (徐敬业之乱) was a rising launched at Yangzhou by Li Jingye, aiming to restore the Prince of Luling against Empress Dowager Wu.

Rebellion of Yang Xuangan

The Rebellion of Yang Xuangan (楊玄感之亂) was a rebellion against the Sui dynasty led by Yang Xuangan, suppressed within two months and marking the first important split in the Sui ruling class.

Rebellion of Yekuno Amlak against the Zagwe

The rebellion of Yekuno Amlak against the Zagwe was the uprising by which the Amhara prince overthrew Ethiopia's Zagwe dynasty and founded the Solomonic dynasty in 1270.

Rebellion of Yelü Chongyuan

The Rebellion of Yelü Chongyuan (重元之乱), also called the Luan River incident, was a failed attempt by Yelv Zhongyuan and his son Nielugu to overthrow Emperor Daozong of the Liao dynasty.

Rebellion of Ying Bu

The Rebellion of Ying Bu (英布之乱) was the 196 BC revolt of Ying Bu, King of Huainan, against Han founder Liu Bang, who defeated and killed him.

Rebellion of Zang Tu

The Rebellion of Zang Tu (臧荼之乱) was the 202 BC revolt of Zang Tu, King of Yan, against the Han dynasty, ending with his capture by Emperor Gaozu.

Rebellion of Zhai Yi

The Rebellion of Zhai Yi (翟义起兵) was an AD 7 uprising by the governor Zhai Yi against Wang Mang's regency, which proclaimed Liu Xin emperor and was defeated.

Rebellion of Zhang Hai and Guo Miao

The Rebellion of Zhang Hai and Guo Miao was a 1043 peasant uprising led by Zhang Hai, driven by famine, that spread across Shanxi and Jingxi before the Song court suppressed it.

Rebellion of Zhang Ju

The Rebellion of Zhang Ju (张觉事件) was Zhang Ju's 12th-century defection from the Jin dynasty to Song, which Jin used as a pretext for war against Song.

Rebellion of Zhu Ci

The Rebellion of Zhu Ci (朱泚之亂) was a 783 Tang dynasty revolt in which the general Zhu Ci seized Chang'an before loyalist armies recovered the capital.

Rebellion of Zhu Gaoxu

The Rebellion of Zhu Gaoxu (高煦之叛) was a 1426 attempt by Zhu Gaoxu, Prince of Han, to seize the Ming throne from his nephew, the Xuande emperor.

Rebellions against Susenyos

The rebellions against Susenyos were a decade of revolts in the Ethiopian Empire, provoked by Emperor Susenyos's conversion to Catholicism, ending in his 1632 abdication.

Rebellions of 522–521 BC against Darius

The Rebellions of 522–521 BC against Darius (شورش‌های داریوش) were uprisings across the Achaemenid Empire after Darius I killed Gaumata and took the throne in 522 BC.

Rebellions of Darius I's first year

The rebellions of Darius I's first year were a wave of revolts across the Achaemenid Empire in 522 and 521 BC, after Darius killed the usurper Gaumata and took the throne.

Rebellions of Li Yun and Li Chongjin

The Rebellions of Li Yun and Li Chongjin (李筠李重进之叛) were two risings against Emperor Taizu of Song in 960, at Luzhou and Yangzhou, both crushed.

Rebellions of the Wuling Man

The Rebellions of the Wuling Man (武陵蛮起义) were recurrent uprisings by the Man tribes of Wuling commandery against Eastern Han rule, often triggered by tax disputes.

Rebirth (Buddhism)

Rebirth (Buddhism), also called saṃsāra, is the Buddhist doctrine of repeated birth driven by karma without a transmigrating soul, linked across lives by a causal stream of consciousness, ending at nirvana.

Rebranding

Rebranding is the alteration of an existing brand identity, changing a company's name, logo, color, or values, singly or in combination; mergers and acquisitions are the most common trigger.

Rebuilding Korea Party (조국혁신당)

Rebuilding Korea Party (조국혁신당), also called Cho Kuk Innovation Party, a minor South Korean liberal opposition party founded March 2024 by former justice minister Cho Kuk; won 12 proportional seats in the 2024 legislative election on an anti-prosecution, anti-Yoon platform.

Rebuilding of Babylon by Esarhaddon

The rebuilding of Babylon by Esarhaddon was the Assyrian king's restoration of the city his father Sennacherib sacked in 689 BC, rebuilding Esagil and restoring Marduk's cult.

Rebuilding of Cusco

The Rebuilding of Cusco (reconstrucción del Cusco) was the mid-15th-century redesign and expansion of the Inca capital at Cusco, Peru, carried out under the emperor Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui.

Rebuilding of the Ishtar Gate

The rebuilding of the Ishtar Gate was Nebuchadnezzar II's reconstruction of Babylon's main gateway with blue glazed bricks showing dragons, bulls, and lions, now displayed in Berlin.

Rebuilding of the Ka'ba and the Black Stone arbitration

The rebuilding of the Ka'ba (تجديد بناء الكعبة) was a 605 AD renovation by Quraysh clans in Mecca, arbitrated by Muhammad over the Black Stone.

REC Silicon

REC Silicon is a Norwegian producer of high-purity silane gas and silicon materials for semiconductor, display, solar, and battery industries, with US plants in Moses Lake and Butte.

Recall (memory)

Recall (memory): generating stored information without the item present as a cue, contrasted with recognition. Covers free recall, cued recall, encoding specificity, the testing effect, and clinical recall-versus-recognition testing.

Recall election

Recall election: also called recall referendum; a petition-driven vote to remove an official mid-term. 19 US states plus DC allow it for state officials; first adopted in Los Angeles 1903; only four gubernatorial recalls have qualified.

Recall test

A recall test measures memory by asking a person to reproduce previously learned material from memory, including free recall without cues and cued recall with a cue at test.

Recapture of Pernambuco

The Recapture of Pernambuco (Insurreição Pernambucana), also called the Restoration War, was the 1645–1654 Luso-Brazilian revolt that expelled the Dutch from northeastern Brazil, ending with their surrender at Recife.