14th year of the Zhiyuan reign period, 4th month, day guiyou [the 10th cyclical day], full Moon.
Heisei period, in Japan, an imperial reign period that began in 1989 when Akihito became emperor on the death of his father, Hirohito (the Shōwa emperor).
A typical date in the nien-hao system might read, "the third year of the Wan-li reign period" (Wan-li san nien).
As early as 1260 he instituted a reign period in the Chinese manner to date his reign, and in 1271, eight years before the disintegration of the Nan Song, he proclaimed his own dynasty under the title of Da Yuan, or "Great Origin".
The following account from the Yuanshi ("History of the Yuan Dynasty") of the total lunar eclipse of May 19 , 1277 follows the customary practice of quoting timings in double hours (12 to a combined day and night) and marks (each equal to 1/100 of a day and night, or 0.24 hour): 14th year of the Zhiyuan reign period, 4th month, day guiyou [the 10th cyclical day], full Moon.
Maybe we need our Eric Schmidt reign period.
"Shunzhi" was the name of this ruler's reign period in Chinese.
So in the Xi-Ning reign period (1068 to 1077) a palace official Huang Huaixin suggested a plan.
The escort was formerly of 18 men, but in the 4th year of the Yongxi reign period (987) the emperor Taizong increased it to 30.
Shen wrote that in the Zhiping reign period (1064 1067) a man of Zezhou unearthed an object in his garden that looked like a serpent or dragon, and after examining it, concluded the dead animal had apparently turned to "stone".
Shen Kuo wrote that during the Qingli reign period (1041 1048), under Emperor Renzong of Song (1022 1063), an obscure commoner and artisan known as Bi Sheng (990 1051) invented ceramic movable type printing.
