Assassination plots in the Three Kingdoms

Followings are the assassination plots, in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms and the participants of them. Since these plots are those of the novel, some of them are fictional
and some of them are just executions.
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* He Jin and Yuan Shao's plot against the eunuch faction, headed by the Ten Attendants (189)
* (AD 189)
* (Lü Bu's adoptive father) (AD 189)
* Cao Cao's attempt against Dong Zhuo
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** A sword of Cao Cao
** Cao Cao's Murder of Lü Boshe
* Dong Zhuo's execution of Emperor Shao and (AD 189)
* Wang Yun's attempt against Dong Zhuo (AD 192)
** Dong Zhuo, Diaochan, Wang Yun,
** Lü Bu,
After Cao Cao became a chancellor (196)
* Cao Cao's plot against Zhang Xiu, (a distant nephew of Zhang Ji, whom was the former husband of a Cao Cao's concubine) (197)
* against Cao Cao (AD 200)
** Dong Cheng, Ji Ben, Consort Dong of Emperor Xian of Han
** Ma Teng, Liu Bei, Zhong Ji, and Wang Fu
* against Liu Bei.
* The execution of Yuan Shang and Yuan Xi (two sons of Yuan Shao) by Gongsun Kang (207)
* The plot against Zhang Liao and the death of Taishi Ci (208)
* Plot against Cao Cao by Ma Teng, Huang Kui, and Ma Xiu and Ma Tie (sons of Ma Teng) (211)
* The execution of Zhang Song by Liu Zhang (213)
* Empress Fu Shou's attempt against Cao Cao. (214)
* Attempt against Cao Cao (AD 218)
** Geng Ji, Wei Huang, Jin Yi; and Ji Mao and Ji Mu (two sons of Ji Ben)
After Cao Pi became an emperor (220)
* Zhang Fei's death by Fan Qiang and Zhang Da (AD 221)
* Ma Dai attempt against Wei Yan (after Zhuge Liang's death)
* Sima Yi's coup d'état, the Incident at Gaoping Tombs (AD 249)
* Zhuge Ke's death by Sun Jun (AD 253)
* 's attempt against Sima Shi (AD 254)
** Xiahou Xuan, Zhang Ji (empress's father),
* Sun Chen's death by Zhang Bu, Ding Feng, and their Wu emperor Sun Xiu (AD 258)
* (AD 260)
* The deaths of Jiang Wei and Zhong Hui, and the death of Deng Ai (AD 264)

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