Eunuch (court official)
6 dated entries naming Eunuch (court official), drawn from 6 separate years between 338 BCE and 1426 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.
4th century BC
- 338 BCEThe 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.source
3rd century BC
2nd century
- 166Scholars 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.source
- 175Confucian scholars try to ensure their capacity in the royal court of China. They are massacred by the eunuchs.source
- 189Two thousand eunuchs in the palace are slaughtered in a violent purge in Luoyang, the capital of Han.source
15th century
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