Emperor Aizong of Jin, born Wányán Shǒuxù, emperor of the Jurchen Jin dynasty, commits suicide in the palace at Caizhou, to where he had escaped after the Mongol siege of Kaifeng in 1234.

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Emperor Aizong of Jin, born Wányán Shǒuxù, emperor of the Jurchen Jin dynasty, commits suicide in the palace at Caizhou, to where he had escaped after the Mongol siege of Kaifeng in 1234. From Hutchinson's History of the Nations, published 1915.

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