{"slug": "eunuch", "label": "Eunuch", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eunuch", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q179294", "qid": "Q179294", "description": "castrated male human", "entries": 6, "years": 6, "span": [-337, 1426], "span_label": ["338 BCE", "1426 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 2}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 2}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 1}], "also_known_as": ["Eunuch (court official)"], "related": [{"slug": "china", "label": "China", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "qin-dynasty", "label": "Qin dynasty", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "han-dynasty", "label": "Han dynasty", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "confucianism", "label": "Confucianism", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "ming-dynasty", "label": "Ming dynasty", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "achaemenid-empire", "label": "Achaemenid Empire", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "artaxerxes-iii", "label": "Artaxerxes III", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "luoyang", "label": "Luoyang", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": -337, "year_label": "338 BCE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": null, "text": "The Persian general and vizier, the eunuch Bagoas, falls out of favour with King Artaxerxes III. Bagoas seeks to remain in office by replacing Artaxerxes with his youngest son Arses, whom he thinks will be easier to control. So Bagoas murders Artaxerxes III and all his sons, other than Arses, who is then placed on the throne by Bagoas. Artaxerxes IV Arses is little more than a puppet-king while Bagoas acts as the power behind the throne.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1354172728#Persian_Empire", "title": "338 BC", "revid": 1354172728, "section": "Events › By place › Persian Empire"}}, {"year": -206, "year_label": "207 BCE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Zhao Gao, Chief eunuch in the service of the Emperors of the Qin dynasty of China (assassinated)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1213018864#Deaths", "title": "207 BC", "revid": 1213018864, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 166, "year_label": "166 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": null, "text": "Scholars who have denounced eunuchs are arrested, killed or banished from the capital and official life in Han dynasty China. This is the first of the Disasters of the Partisan Prohibitions, which end in 184.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371302266#Asia", "title": "AD 166", "revid": 1371302266, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}, {"year": 175, "year_label": "175 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Confucian scholars try to ensure their capacity in the royal court of China. They are massacred by the eunuchs.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371304741#Asia", "title": "AD 175", "revid": 1371304741, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}, {"year": 189, "year_label": "189 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Two thousand eunuchs in the palace are slaughtered in a violent purge in Luoyang, the capital of Han.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371309450#China", "title": "AD 189", "revid": 1371309450, "section": "Events › By place › China"}}, {"year": 1426, "year_label": "1426 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "Eunuch-dominated secret police start to control the palace guards and imperial workshops, infiltrate the civil service, and head all foreign missions in China.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360579570#Date_unknown", "title": "1426", "revid": 1360579570, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}]}