Namamugi Incident

When

14 Sep 1862

Kind

Event

Coordinates

35.49° N, 139.66° E

Description

a British national, Charles Lenox Richardson, is killed in Japan by samurai in the Namamugi Incident. Three companions escape, though two are seriously injured.

Placed at the coordinates of the event it links, Namamugi Incident.

1862 political crisis in Tokugawa Japan

The Namamugi incident , also known as the Kanagawa incident and Richardson affair, was a political crisis that occurred in the Tokugawa Shogunate of Japan during the Bakumatsu on 14 September 1862. Charles Lennox Richardson, a British merchant, was killed by the armed retinue of Shimazu Hisamitsu, the regent of the Satsuma Domain, on a road in Namamugi near Kawasaki.

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• Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Japon : incident de Namamugi”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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