{"slug": "assassination", "label": "Assassination", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3882219", "qid": "Q3882219", "description": "murder of a prominent person", "entries": 11, "years": 11, "span": [-226, 815], "span_label": ["227 BCE", "815 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 6}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 3}, {"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 2}], "related": [{"slug": "dagobert-i", "label": "Dagobert I", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "rome", "label": "Rome", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "huns", "label": "Huns", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "flavius-aetius", "label": "Flavius Aetius", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "valentinian-iii", "label": "Valentinian III", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "constantinople", "label": "Constantinople", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "anatolia", "label": "Anatolia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "syracuse-sicily", "label": "Syracuse, Sicily", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "umayyad-caliphate", "label": "Umayyad Caliphate", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "constans-ii", "label": "Constans II", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "constantine-iv", "label": "Constantine IV", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "roman-empire", "label": "Roman Empire", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": -226, "year_label": "227 BCE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Jing Ke, Chinese retainer and assassin of the Yan State", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1288758207#Deaths", "title": "227 BC", "revid": 1288758207, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 415, "year_label": "415 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "The Visigoths invade the Iberian Peninsula and begin to conquer territory taken previously by the Vandals. King Athaulf and his pregnant wife Galla Placidia leave Gallia Narbonensis; they relocate at Barcelona. Their infant son, Theodosius, dies in infancy, eliminating an opportunity for a Roman-Visigothic line. Athaulf is assassinated in the palace while taking a bath. Sigeric succeeds him, but after a reign of seven days he is also murdered.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367501934#Roman_Empire", "title": "415", "revid": 1367501934, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 452, "year_label": "452 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Nan'an Yinwang succeeds his father Emperor Taiwu of Northern Wei, after he is assassinated by the eunuch Zong Ai. Later this year, Yinwang is murdered as well, and Ai is overthrown by a group of high officials. Wencheng Di, age 12, becomes the new emperor of Northern Wei.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1342662685#China", "title": "452", "revid": 1342662685, "section": "Events › By place › China"}}, {"year": 455, "year_label": "455 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "March 16", "text": "March 16 – Emperor Valentinian III, age 35, is assassinated by two Hunnic retainers of the late Flavius Aetius, while training with the bow on the Campus Martius (Rome), ending the Theodosian dynasty. His primicerius sacri cubiculi, Heraclius, is also murdered.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364739434#Roman_Empire", "title": "455", "revid": 1364739434, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 477, "year_label": "477 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Liu Zhun, age 10, becomes Emperor Shun of the Liu Song dynasty after his brother Houfei is assassinated by general Xiao Daocheng. He installs Shun as puppet ruler and sets himself up as regent. Xiao receives near-imperial powers, establishes Buddhism as the state religion and sets up the \"Three Leaders\" system, under which native hamlet, village and district officers are responsible for taxation and conscription.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364739274#China", "title": "477", "revid": 1364739274, "section": "Events › By place › China"}}, {"year": 575, "year_label": "575 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Franks under Sigibert I pursue his half brother Chilperic I, and conquer the cities Poitiers and Tournai. While he is proclaimed new king of Neustria by the nobles, Sigibert is assassinated at Vitry-en-Artois (Northern Gaul) by hirelings of Fredegund.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367658531#Europe", "title": "575", "revid": 1367658531, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 591, "year_label": "591 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Battle of Blarathon: A Persian army of about 40,000 men under King Bahrām VI is defeated, in the lowlands near Ganzak (northwestern Iran), by the Byzantines. Bahrām flees to seek refuge with the Turks in Central Asia, and settles in Fergana. However, after some time, he is murdered by a hired assassin of Khosrau II.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364751608#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "591", "revid": 1364751608, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 632, "year_label": "632 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "April 8", "text": "April 8 – King Charibert II is assassinated at Blaye (Gironde), (possibly on orders of his half-brother Dagobert I), along with his infant son. Dagobert I claims Aquitaine and Gascony, becoming the most powerful Merovingian king in the West.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370178497#Europe", "title": "632", "revid": 1370178497, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 668, "year_label": "668 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "July 15", "text": "July 15 – Emperor Constans II is killed under mysterious circumstances in his bath, during a mutiny at Syracuse. The Byzantine court returns to Constantinople after an absence of 5 years, in which the Muslim-Arabs have made annual invasions and devastations of Anatolia. Probably assassinated by his chamberlain after a 27-year reign, Constans is succeeded by his son Constantine IV (the \"Bearded\"), alongside his brothers Heraclius and Tiberius as co-emperors.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340805218#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "668", "revid": 1340805218, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 701, "year_label": "701 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "King Egica dies, possibly assassinated in a plot led by Roderic. He is succeeded by his son Wittiza as king of the Visigoths (approximate date).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340806807#Europe", "title": "701", "revid": 1340806807, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 815, "year_label": "815 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "July 13", "text": "July 13 – Wu Yuanheng, Chinese chancellor of the Tang Dynasty, is murdered by assassins of warlord Wu Yuanji, in Chang'an.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1348647036#Asia", "title": "815", "revid": 1348647036, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}]}