<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Wen_of_Sui" id="mwHQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Emperor Wen of Sui">Yang Jian</a> declares himself <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Wen_of_Sui" id="mwHg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Emperor Wen of Sui">Emperor Wen of Sui</a>, ending the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Zhou" id="mwHw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Northern Zhou">Northern Zhou</a> and beginning the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sui_dynasty" id="mwIA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Sui dynasty">Sui dynasty</a>.<sup about="#mwt15" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-1"}}' id="cite_ref-1" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./March_4#cite_note-1" id="mwIQ" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 1;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwIg">[1]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-1"><cite about="#mwt12" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFXiong2009">Xiong, Victor Cunrui (2009). <a class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=UD8Nvn7Ca18C" id="mwCyY" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwCyc">Historical Dictionary of Medieval China</i></a>. Scarecrow Press, Inc. p.<span id="mwCyg" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>106. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwCyk" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span id="mwCyo" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a href="./Special:BookSources/978-0-8108-6053-7" id="mwCys" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-8108-6053-7"><bdi id="mwCyw">978-0-8108-6053-7</bdi></a><span class="reference-accessdate" id="mwCy0">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap" id="mwCy4">2023-10-18</span></span>.</cite><span about="#mwt12" class="Z3988" id="mwCy8" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Historical+Dictionary+of+Medieval+China&amp;rft.pages=106&amp;rft.pub=Scarecrow+Press%2C+Inc.&amp;rft.date=2009&amp;rft.isbn=978-0-8108-6053-7&amp;rft.aulast=Xiong&amp;rft.aufirst=Victor+Cunrui&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DUD8Nvn7Ca18C&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMarch+4"></span></span>