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Name: Shun secession

Type: Event

Start: 1644 AD

End: 1644 AD

Parent: Qing conquest of the Ming

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Was the secession of the state of Shun, centred in Xi'an, from the Ming Dynasty.

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  • April 1644: By March Shun armies had taken the important city of Taiyuan in Shanxi.
  • March 1644: In February 1644, the rebel leader Li Zicheng founded the Shun dynasty in Xi'an and proclaimed himself king.
  • April 1644: On April 24, Li Zicheng breached the walls of Beijing, and the Emperor hanged himself the next day on a hill behind the Forbidden City.

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