Sakuradamon Incident

When

24 Mar 1860

Kind

Assassination

Coordinates

35.68° N, 139.75° E

Description

1860 assassination of Japanese Chief Minister (Tairō) Ii Naosuke

Japanese assassination of a Tokugawa official

The Sakuradamon Incident was the assassination of Ii Naosuke, Chief Minister (Tairō) of the Tokugawa shogunate, on March 24, 1860, by rōnin samurai of the Mito and Satsuma Domains, outside the Sakurada Gate of Edo Castle.

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• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Sakuradamon Incident: Rōnin samurai of the Mito Domain in Japan assassinate tairō (Chief Minister) Ii Naosuke outside the Sakurada Gate of Edo Castle,…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Chinese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “櫻田門外之變，對安政大獄感到憤慨的十數名水戶藩浪士在江戶城櫻田門外襲擊暗殺了大老井伊直弼。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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