What the records say
- When
- 14 Dec 835
- Kind
- Event
- Coordinates
- 34.31° N, 108.86° E
Placed at the area around the site it links, Chang'an.
Summary
Sweet Dew Incident: Emperor Wenzong of Tang plots to free the court from the influence of his palace eunuchs. In the northeast sector of the capital, Chang'an, after the failure of the emperor's chancellor Li Zhongyan to subdue the eunuchs' influence, troops under the eunuchs' command slaughter many officials and other associates.
Sweet Dew incident
835 Tang dynasty political plot
The Sweet Dew incident or Ganlu incident was a failed coup on 14 December 835 by Emperor Wenzong of the Chinese Tang dynasty to seize power from the eunuchs. The emperor planned to kill the eunuchs with the aid of the chancellor Li Xun and the general Zheng Zhu. The eunuchs learned of the plot and solidified their control with a counter-coup; Li, Zheng, many of their followers, and other officials were killed.
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- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributorsCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Chine : incident de la rosée bienfaisante (Ganluzhibian)”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Chinese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “農曆十一月二十一日（公曆12月）- 唐朝發生甘露之變，唐文宗近臣宰相李訓、凤翔节度使鄭注等謀誅宦官，仇士良立刻劫持天子而走，發兵殺害了李訓、鄭注等”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “唐で甘露の変が起きる。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page