MAPS OF HISTORY · ON THIS DAY · March 19
THE DAY IN HISTORY · MARCH 19
March 19 in history
1279 — Yamen
19 Mar 1279 — The last Song fleet, carrying the court in exile, is destroyed off this headland; the chancellor Lu Xiufu takes the eight-year-old emperor on his back and steps into the sea. For the first time in history, all of China is ruled by conquerors from the steppe.
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1947 — Yan’an falls
19 Mar 1947 — Hu Zongnan’s 200,000 take the empty cave capital: the CCP has evacuated everything that matters and lets the symbol go. Nationalist banners photograph well over a town of no military value while Lin Biao counterattacks in Manchuria. High tide, and the turn.
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