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Fall of Teotihuacan
The Fall of Teotihuacan (Caída de Teotihuacán) was the destruction by fire of the ancient American city's governing center around 550 CE, probably in an internal revolt against its elite.
Fall of the Assad regime
Fall of the Assad regime: the December 2024 collapse of Bashar al-Assad's Syrian government, also called the fall of Damascus, when an HTS-led rebel offensive ended 54 years of Assad family rule and sent Assad into exile in Russia.
Fall of the Barmakids
The fall of the Barmakids was the sudden destruction of the Persian family that had run the Abbasid caliphate for seventeen years, ordered by Caliph Harun al-Rashid in 803.
Fall of the Berlin Wall
Fall of the Berlin Wall: the 9 November 1989 opening of East-West Berlin crossings after Günter Schabowski's premature announcement, ending the 155-km Wall built in 1961 and leading to German reunification on 3 October 1990.
Fall of the Caliphate of Córdoba
The Fall of the Caliphate of Córdoba (سقوط الخلافة القرطبية) was the collapse of the Umayyad caliphate of al-Andalus, beginning with the deposition of Caliph Hisham II in 1009.
Fall of the Chen Han state
The fall of the Chen Han state (陈汉灭亡) was Zhu Yuanzhang's destruction of Chen Youliang's Han regime in 1360 to 1363, ending at Lake Poyang.
Fall of the Choe military regime
The fall of the Choe military regime was the 1258 coup by Yu Gyeong and Kim Jun that killed Choe Ui, ending 62 years of Choe rule in Goryeo.
Fall of the Chosen Council
The Fall of the Chosen Council (Опалы Адашева и Сильвестра) was Ivan IV's 1560 disgrace of Sylvester and Aleksei Adashev, leaders of his reforming council, ending in Adashev's death.
Fall of the Derg
The Fall of the Derg was the 1991 overthrow of Ethiopia's ruling junta, led by Mengistu Haile Mariam since 1974, when EPRDF forces entered Addis Ababa on 28 May.
Fall of the Dou clan
The Fall of the Dou clan (窦氏之诛) was the destruction of Grand General Dou Wu's family at the Eastern Han court after his plot against the eunuchs leaked.
Fall of the Fan and Zhonghang clans in Jin
The fall of the Fan and Zhonghang clans in Jin (范氏中行氏之亡) was the destruction of two of Jin's six ministerial clans by Zhao, Han, Zhi, and Wei in 490 BC.
Fall of the Kanva dynasty
The fall of the Kanva dynasty (कण्व वंश का पतन) was the overthrow of Susarman, the last Kanva king of Magadha, by the Satavahana dynasty around 28 BC.
Fall of the Kart dynasty
The fall of the Kart dynasty (انقراض کرتیان هرات) was Timur's capture of Herat in April 1381 and the elimination of the Kart dynasty of Khurasan by the 1380s.
Fall of the Lakhmid kingdom
The fall of the Lakhmid kingdom was the abolition around 602 CE of the Arab client dynasty ruling central Iraq from al-Hira, when Khosrow II killed al-Nu'man III.
Fall of the Mauryan Empire and accession of Pushyamitra Shunga
The fall of the Mauryan Empire was the assassination of the last ruler, Brihadratha, by his commander-in-chief Pushyamitra Shunga (पुष्यमित्र शुंग) at a military parade in 185 BCE, founding the Shunga dynasty.
Fall of the Muromachi shogunate
The fall of the Muromachi shogunate (室町幕府) ended the Ashikaga military government founded by Ashikaga Takauji in 1336, conventionally dated to 1573, when Oda Nobunaga drove Shogun Yoshiaki from Kyoto.
Fall of the Nguyen lords (1777)
The fall of the Nguyen lords was the destruction of the Nguyen family's ruling government in southern Vietnam by the Tay Son rebels in 1777, centered on Saigon.
Fall of the Rashtrakuta empire
The fall of the Rashtrakuta empire (कर्क्क द्वितीय, Karka II) was the 973 CE overthrow of the Rashtrakuta dynasty, when the Chalukya feudatory Tailapa II deposed King Karka II.
Fall of the Rasulid dynasty
The fall of the Rasulid dynasty (سقوط الدولة الرسولية) was the overthrow of Rasulid Yemen in 1454, when the Banu Tahir entered Aden and deposed the dynasty's last claimant.
Fall of the Samanid dynasty
The fall of the Samanid dynasty (جنگهای داخلی سامانیان) ended the last Iranian dynasty of Eastern Iran, partitioned between the Qarakhanids and Ghaznavids in 999.
Fall of the Second Venezuelan Republic
The fall of the Second Venezuelan Republic, or Caída de la Segunda República de Venezuela, was the 1814 destruction of Venezuela's republican government by royalist forces.
Fall of the Soga clan
The fall of the Soga clan was the destruction of Japan's dominant court family in the Isshi Incident of 645, opening the way for the Taika Reform.
Fall of the Songhai Empire
The fall of the Songhai Empire was the collapse of the largest West African state of the sixteenth century, defeated by a Moroccan invasion at the Battle of Tondibi in 1591.
Fall of the Tay Son dynasty
The fall of the Tay Son dynasty (Sự sụp đổ nhà Tây Sơn) was the defeat of Vietnam's Tay Son ruling house in 1802 by Nguyen Anh, who became Emperor Gia Long.
Fall of the Tulunid dynasty
The fall of the Tulunid dynasty (سقوط الدولة الطولونية) was the Abbasid reconquest of Egypt and Syria in 904–905, ending about forty years of Tulunid autonomy.
Fall of the Vakataka dynasty
The fall of the Vakataka dynasty (वाकाटक वंश का पतन) was the collapse, around 500 to 525 CE, of the royal line that ruled most of the northern Deccan.
Fall of the Western Roman Empire
Fall of the Western Roman Empire: dissolution of western imperial rule, conventionally dated 476 CE when Odoacer deposed Romulus Augustulus. Successor kingdoms (Visigoths, Vandals, Franks), Hunnic shock, and the historiography from Gibbon to Heather and Ward-Perkins.
Fall of Thinis
The Fall of Thinis was the capture of Thinis, chief town of the eighth Upper Egyptian nome, by the Theban Eleventh Dynasty under Wahankh Intef II, about 2100 BC.
Fall of Tripoli (1289)
The Fall of Tripoli (فتح طرابلس) was the storming of the crusader County of Tripoli by Sultan Qalawun's Mamluk army in April 1289, ending nearly two centuries of Frankish rule.
Fall of Tula
The Fall of Tula (Caída de Tula) was the burning, looting, and abandonment of Tula, the Toltec capital in Hidalgo, central Mexico, around AD 1150, after severe drought.