Battle of Dan-no-Ura
April 25, 1185
Minamoto Yoshitsune's fleet cornered the Taira clan and their child-emperor Antoku in the strait between Honshu and Kyushu. As defeat became certain, the emperor's grandmother clasped him in her arms and jumped into the sea. Five years of civil war ended with Minamoto victory. The drowning of the boy-emperor became one of the most iconic scenes in Japanese literature, retold in the Tale of the Heike with devastating pathos.
In context
Also in 1185 (5 other events on record)
- Death of Baldwin IV · Middle East · Politics
- Siege of Thessalonica by the Normans · Europe · War
- Andronikos I Komnenos overthrown · Europe · Politics
- Uprising of Asen and Peter · Europe · Politics
- Gerald of Wales writes Topographia Hibernica · Europe · Culture
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Era
High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.