# Standard accounts record the First Emperor’s death in 210 BCE on a tour

Date: 1961

## The fact

Shiji-based accounts record that [Qin Shi Huang](/people/qin-shi-huang) died in 210 BCE during an eastern tour, after which Zhao Gao and Li Si suppressed the news and installed Huhai. The succession intrigue is part of this death cluster.

## Context

A concealed imperial death is a governance shock. The rapid collapse of Qin after 210 is a later set of Facts.

Qin Shi Huang is not the sole author of every later object, law, or museum label that uses the name. Shared work with courts, excavators, printers, spouses, officials, and later states does not erase a documented role, and it does not make an ancient person the signer of a twentieth-century statute.

## Evidence and sources

Official museum/encyclopedia/agency pages and an independent publisher independently describe this instrument.

Official or archival record: Emperor Qinshihuang’s Mausoleum Site Museum (https://www.bmy.com.cn/; Emperor Qinshihuang’s Mausoleum Site Museum).

## Significance

Do not write a medical diagnosis. Do not write that mercury pills are proven without the toxicology Shiji only suggests.

Do not write a medical diagnosis. Do not write that mercury pills are proven without the toxicology Shiji only suggests.

## What is established and what is not

Established as a dated public record of this instrument.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

## People

- Qin Shi Huang: https://factrail.ai/people/qin-shi-huang

## Drivers

- Political Polarization: https://factrail.ai/drivers/political-polarization

## Sources

- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Qin-Shi-Huang
- https://www.bmy.com.cn/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/cn-qin-death-210-bce