Death of Hong Xiuquan
1864 · Event
Starving in besieged Nanjing, the Heavenly King dies — of illness, or of eating the weeds he told his subjects were manna — seven weeks before the city falls. His teenage son is captured and executed; the movement that shook an empire is extinguished with the family that dreamed it.
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