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Chugoku Electric Power
Chugoku Electric Power, formally The Chugoku Electric Power Company, Incorporated (中国電力株式会社), is a Japanese electric utility that restarted its Shimane Unit 2 nuclear reactor in December 2024 after 13 years offline.
Chuha Sultan Takkalu
Chuha Sultan Takkalu (چوها سلطان تکلو) was a Takkalu Qizilbash amir who served Safavid Iran as commander-in-chief and virtual ruler during Shah Tahmasp I's minority, from 1527 until his fall.
Chui Ling (Regulation on Flogging) of Emperor Jing
Chui Ling (箠令), the Regulation on Flogging, is a Han decree of Emperor Jing fixing the bamboo rod's dimensions, targeting the buttocks, so that those flogged survived.
Chūichi Nagumo (南雲忠一)
Chūichi Nagumo (南雲忠一), IJN admiral (1886/1887-1944), commanded the Kidō Būtai carrier force at Pearl Harbor and Midway, led carriers through Santa Cruz, and died on Saipan in July 1944.
Chuji
Chuji (处寂), also known as Master Tang, was a Tang-dynasty Chan Buddhist monk of Sichuan who linked Zhishen and Wuxiang in the Jingzhong lineage of Chengdu.
Chuka Umunna
Chuka Umunna: British solicitor, MP for Streatham 2010-2019, Labour then Change UK then Liberal Democrat, Shadow Business Secretary 2011-2015, 2015 leadership withdrawal, People's Vote co-founder, now Managing Director in Citi UK investment banking after JPMorgan and Edelman.
Chukchi people
Chukchi (Luoravetlan), an indigenous people of the Chukotka Peninsula in northeastern Siberia, traditionally reindeer herders inland and marine mammal hunters on the coast; about 16,000 people speaking a Paleo-Asiatic language with gender-specific pronunciation.
Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu
Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, known as Emeka, was a Nigerian army officer and politician who led the breakaway Republic of Biafra as head of state during the Nigerian Civil War, from 1967 to 1970.
Chulachomklao Royal Military Academy
Chulachomklao Royal Military Academy (โรงเรียนนายร้อยพระจุลจอมเกล้า) is the Royal Thai Army's principal officer-training academy, founded by King Chulalongkorn in 1887 and located at Khao Cha-ngok, Nakhon Nayok province, since 1980.
Chulalongkorn (จุฬาลงกรณ์)
Chulalongkorn (จุฬาลงกรณ์), King Rama V of Siam (r. 1868–1910), reformed Siam into a modern centralized state, abolished slavery peacefully by 1905, and kept Siam independent through diplomacy and territorial concessions; Thailand's first university, founded 1917, bears his name.
Chulalongkorn University (จุฬาลงกรณ์มหาวิทยาลัย)
Chulalongkorn University (จุฬาลงกรณ์มหาวิทยาลัย), also called Chula, is a public university in Bangkok founded March 26, 1917 by King Vajiravudh and named after King Chulalongkorn; it has ranked first in Thailand in QS rankings for 18 consecutive years.
Chulalongkorn's administrative reforms
Chulalongkorn's administrative reforms (การปฏิรูปการปกครอง พ.ศ. 2435), proclaimed by King Chulalongkorn (Rama V) in 1892, replaced Siam's centuries-old Chatusadom system with twelve functionally defined ministries on European lines.
Chulalongkorn's reforms and abolition of slavery
Chulalongkorn's reforms and abolition of slavery (การปฏิรูปและการเลิกทาส) were King Chulalongkorn's program that dismantled slavery and the corvee in Siam, begun in 1874 and completed in 1905.
Chuluo Qaghan
Chuluo Qaghan, personal name Ashina Xichun, was a qaghan of the Eastern Turkic Khaganate who reigned from 619 to 620, succeeding his brother Shibi Qaghan.
Chumash people
Chumash: Indigenous people of California's central and southern coast and northern Channel Islands, from Malibu to Paso Robles. Known for the tomol plank canoe, shell bead money, the 1824 revolt, and the federally recognized Santa Ynez Band.
Chumash Revolt of 1824
The Chumash Revolt of 1824 was an armed uprising by Chumash at Mission Santa Inés, La Purísima, and Santa Bárbara, the largest in Alta California mission history.
Chumo qian (transaction tax)
Chumo qian (除陌钱) was a Tang dynasty levy on cash payments and sales, instituted in 783 amid military expenses and repealed after the Jingyuan mutiny demanded it.
Chûn Castle
Chûn Castle (Chun, Chyoon) is a small bivallate Iron Age granite-walled hillfort on Chun Downs, West Penwith, Cornwall, at 215 m, occupied from the third century BC, with tin working, and reoccupied around 500 AD.
Chun Doo-hwan (전두환)
Chun Doo-hwan (전두환), 1931–2021, South Korean general and Fifth Republic president 1980–1988; led the December 12, 1979 coup, suppressed the 1980 Gwangju uprising, was sentenced to death in 1996, and was pardoned in 1997.
Chunan
Chunan (楚南, 813–888) was a Tang dynasty Chan Buddhist monk from Fujian, remembered as a dharma heir of Huangbo Xiyun in the Hongzhou school line.
Chunbai
Chunbai (纯白, 1036–1094) was a Chinese Chan Buddhist monk of the Linji lineage's Huanglong branch, a disciple of Huanglong Huinan and abbot of Zhaojue monastery in Chengdu.
Chunchugwan
Chunchugwan (춘추관, Spring and Autumn Office) was the Joseon government office that recorded daily state affairs and compiled the Veritable Records, from 1392 to 1894.
Chunda, Rao of Marwar
Chunda (राव चूंडा) was a Rathore Rajput ruler who established an independent kingdom in Marwar, with his seat at Mandore, and died violently at Nagaur in 1423 or 1424.
Chung Dong-young
Chung Dong-young is a South Korean politician and former journalist serving as Minister of Unification, a post he also held from 2004 under President Roh Moo-hyun.
Chung Ju-yung (정주영)
Chung Ju-yung (정주영) was a South Korean entrepreneur, born in 1915 in what is now North Korea, who founded the Hyundai chaebol spanning construction, shipbuilding, and automobiles.
Chung Keng Quee
Chung Keng Quee (郑景贵) was a Hakka tin-mining magnate and Kapitan China of Perak, described as a founder of Taiping and one of the wealthiest men in the Straits Settlements.
Chung Te-li
Chung Te-li (钟德礼) is the Taiwanese co-founder and chairman of Lai Yih Footwear, founded in Taichung in 1987, a leading maker of vulcanized casual shoes for Adidas, Converse, and HOKA.
Chung-Ang University (중앙대학교)
Chung-Ang University (중앙대학교), private comprehensive university founded 1916 in Seoul, with campuses in Heukseok (Seoul) and Anseong (Da Vinci Campus); 15 colleges, 18 graduate schools, Doosan Group foundation since 2008, motto Justice and Truth.
Chungam Faction
Chungam faction (충암파, 冲岩派), a South Korean political faction of Chungam High School alumni formed in 2022 by Yoon Suk Yeol and Kim Yong-hyun; its members held key military and government posts and played major roles in Yoon's December 2024 martial law declaration.
Chunghonbu
Chunghonbu (중추부) was a senior first-rank central office of Korea's Joseon dynasty, created in 1466 when King Sejo renamed the Chunghuwon; it later became an honorific office housing senior officials without substantive posts.