Jin emperor Hailingwang assassinated
November 1161
The ambitious Jin emperor Hailingwang, who had launched a massive invasion fleet to conquer the Southern Song and reunify China by force, was murdered in his own camp by mutinous officers after his navy was destroyed by Song fire-ships at the Battle of Caishi. The assassination ended the last serious Jurchen attempt to conquer the south and ushered in a long period of uneasy coexistence along the Huai River frontier.
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Also in 1161 (3 other events on record)
- Song use gunpowder bombs at Caishi · East Asia · Technology
- Song navy defeats Jin at Tangdao · East Asia · War
- Song scholars compile the Taiping Imperial Reader · East Asia · Culture
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High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.