Fall of Fancheng
The Song History records that Fancheng fell in the first month of Xianchun 9.
What this does and does not establish
宋史/卷046, Wikisource revision 2630084. The following clause records the deaths of Fan Tianshun and Niu Fu. This is distinct from Xiangyang's surrender in month two; month-six retrospective discussion concerns honors for the same Fancheng deaths.
- Read through an AI working translation.
- Region
- East Asia
- Theme
- Politics and institutions
- Kind of record
- Placed in a year. A source places this in one year. It is listed under that year; no day precision is invented.
How it is dated
- Date reference
- 咸淳九年正月乙丑
- How we use it
- Year-level placement is limited to the dated source entry.
The date reference is this project’s reading of the source’s date. It may give an era name, a reign or a calendar in a normalised form rather than in the source’s own words; the dating notes say what the source prints.
Dating notes from the research record
Read song046.wikitext lines 228–246, including the year opening and subsequent month entries. calendar_headers and the calendar rows in sinica-1272-12-31.html and sinica-1273-12-31.html identify Julian 1272-12-31 as Xianchun 8, month 12, day 10, and Julian 1273-12-31 as Xianchun 9, month 11, day 21. Xianchun 9 month 1 therefore falls within Julian AD 1273; no exact Julian day is asserted. Original quotation begins at line 230, character 10650.
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Sources and quoted text
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Source 1 · Supports the statement
Song shi (History of Song), basic annals
Toghto (脫脫) et al., Yuan court historiographers
Quoted text (Classical Chinese)
九年春正月乙丑，樊城破，AI working translation into English; not official or authoritative
In the ninth year, in spring, in the first month, on yichou, Fancheng fell.
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