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Fall of Later Baekje
The fall of Later Baekje (후백제 멸망) was the destruction of the Korean state of Later Baekje by Goryeo's army under Wang Geon at the Battle of Illicheon in 936.
Fall of Lin'an and surrender of the Song court
The fall of Lin'an and surrender of the Song court (临安陷落与宋恭帝出降) was the capture of the Southern Song capital Lin'an by Yuan general Bayan in 1276.
Fall of Longvek
The Fall of Longvek, also Lovek or Lawaek, was the capture of Cambodia's sixteenth-century capital by the Siamese army of King Naresuan of Ayutthaya in late 1593 or early 1594, ending about 60 years of prosperity.
Fall of Lü Buwei
The fall of Lü Buwei (吕不韦罢相) was his removal as chancellor of Qin by King Zheng, after the Lao Ai rebellion, ending in exile to Shu and suicide.
Fall of Majapahit to Demak
The fall of Majapahit to Demak (Runtuhnya Majapahit) was the loss of the Hindu-Buddhist Majapahit empire in Java to the Islamic Sultanate of Demak, from 1478 to 1527.
Fall of man
The Fall of man, also called the Fall from Paradise, is the distinctively Christian doctrine that Adam's disobedience in Paradise brought sin and death, inherited as original sin.
Fall of Mandalay and annexation of Upper Burma
The fall of Mandalay and annexation of Upper Burma (မန္တလေး ကျရှုံးပြီး အထက်မြန်မာ ပြည်ထောင် သိမ်းပိုက်ခြင်း) ended the Third Anglo-Burmese War, with British troops occupying Mandalay unopposed in November 1885.
Fall of Maximilien Robespierre
Fall of Maximilien Robespierre (Coup of 9 Thermidor, 27-28 July 1794): Convention deputies arrested and executed Robespierre, Saint-Just, and Couthon, ending the Reign of Terror and beginning the Thermidorian Reaction of 1794-1795.
Fall of Mayapan
The Fall of Mayapan (caída de Mayapán), around 1441, was a Xiu-led revolt that massacred the ruling Cocom family and ended the Maya capital's dominance in Yucatán.
Fall of Mosul
The Fall of Mosul was the capture of Iraq's second largest city by the Islamic State (ISIS) in June 2014, after the defending Iraqi forces collapsed.
Fall of Nineveh (612 BC)
The Fall of Nineveh in 612 BC was the capture and sack of the Neo-Assyrian capital by a Babylonian and Median coalition after a three-month siege, ending the empire.
Fall of Nojpetén
The Fall of Nojpetén in 1697 was the Spanish capture of the island capital of the Itza Maya, the last unconquered native kingdom in the Americas.
Fall of Novo Brdo
The Fall of Novo Brdo was the Ottoman capture of Serbia's richest silver mining town in Kosovo by Sultan Mehmed II on 1 June 1455.
Fall of Oyo-Ile
The Fall of Oyo-Ile, also called Old Oyo or Katunga, was the abandonment around 1835 of the capital of the Oyo Empire in southwestern Nigeria.
Fall of Pagan
The Fall of Pagan was the collapse of the Pagan Kingdom in 1287, when Kublai Khan's Mongol invasion ended the dynasty that had ruled Burma for two centuries.
Fall of Palmyra
The Fall of Palmyra (سقوط تدمر) was Emperor Aurelian's suppression of Zenobia's Palmyrene breakaway state in 272 CE, decided by victories at Immae and Emesa and completed by Palmyra's surrender.
Fall of Phnom Penh
The fall of Phnom Penh was the capture of Cambodia's capital by the Khmer Rouge on 17 April 1975, ending the five-year civil war and the U.S.-backed Khmer Republic.
Fall of Rokuhara
The Fall of Rokuhara (六波羅探題の滅亡) was the 1333 destruction of the Rokuhara tandai, the Kamakura shogunate's headquarters in Kyoto, by Ashikaga Takauji's forces, opening the way to the shogunate's collapse and the Kenmu Restoration.
Fall of Saigon
Fall of Saigon: the April 30, 1975 capture of South Vietnam's capital by North Vietnamese forces, ending the Vietnam War; also called Black April; followed Operation Frequent Wind, the largest helicopter evacuation in history.
Fall of Segou to the French
The fall of Segou to the French was the capture of Segou, capital of the Toucouleur Empire in present-day Mali, by Colonel Louis Archinard on 6 April 1890.
Fall of Seville to the Almoravids
The fall of Seville to the Almoravids (سقوط إمارة إشبيلية) was the 1091 conquest of the Abbadid capital of Seville by Yusuf ibn Tashfin's armies, ending al-Mu'tamid's rule.
Fall of Siad Barre
The fall of Siad Barre was the overthrow of Somalia's military ruler, who fled Mogadishu on 27 January 1991 as United Somali Congress forces captured the capital.
Fall of Sidon (677 BC)
The fall of Sidon (677 BC) was the capture and sack of the Phoenician city by the Assyrian king Esarhaddon, who beheaded King Abdi-Milkutti and refounded the site as Kar-Esarhaddon.
Fall of Singapore
Fall of Singapore: 15 February 1942 surrender of Allied forces under Lieutenant General Arthur Percival to Yamashita's 25th Army after a 70-day Malaya campaign; about 130,000 prisoners taken, Churchill's 'worst disaster', start of Japanese occupation as Syonan-to.
Fall of Sis
The Fall of Sis (سقوط سيس) was the 1375 capture of Sis, capital of the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia, by the Mamluk Sultanate, ending the kingdom and imprisoning King Levon V.
Fall of Sophia Alekseyevna
The Fall of Sophia Alekseyevna (Дело царевны Софьи) was Peter I's removal of his half-sister Sophia from the Russian regency in August and September 1689, ending her rule for the joint tsars.
Fall of Suharto
Fall of Suharto: the May 21, 1998 resignation ending Indonesia's 32-year New Order, triggered by the Asian financial crisis, student protests, the Trisakti shootings, and anti-Chinese riots, leading to Habibie and Reformasi.
Fall of Tarbisu
The Fall of Tarbisu was the capture in 614 BC of the Assyrian city of Tarbisu, near Nineveh, by the Medes under Cyaxares during the final war against Assyria.
Fall of Tărnovo (1393)
The Fall of Tărnovo (Падането на Търново) was the capture of Bulgaria's capital by Ottoman sultan Bayezid I on 17 July 1393 after a three-month siege.
Fall of Tenochtitlan
Fall of Tenochtitlan (13 August 1521): capture of the Aztec capital by Hernán Cortés, Tlaxcalan allies, brigantines, 75-day siege, smallpox, Cuauhtémoc's capture, end of the Aztec Empire.