Mukhali, the chief commander in Genghis' protracted invasion of the Jin Dynasty, seizes Mizhou, in the southeast of present Shandong province, and orders all the inhabitants massacred.
Wanyan Yongji is betrayed and killed by a marshal in the capital of Beijing; he is the third and last of ten Jin emperors to be assassinated.
After his death, he is posthumously demoted to his pre-reign title of Prince of Wei.
"We cannot be certain of being right about the future; but we can be almost certain of being wrong about the future, if we are wrong about the past."
—G. K. Chesterton, What I Saw in America (1922)
