Go-Daigo overthrows the Kamakura bakufu
May 1333
Imperial loyalists led by Nitta Yoshisada stormed Kamakura while Ashikaga Takauji turned coat in Kyoto, burning the Rokuhara headquarters of the Hojo deputies. The Hojo regents committed mass suicide in their burning headquarters. Emperor Go-Daigo returned from exile and proclaimed direct imperial rule, the Kenmu Restoration. It would last barely three years before the warrior class reasserted control.
In context
Also in 1333 (3 other events on record)
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Era
Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.
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