Ashikaga Takauji enters Kyoto and ends the Kenmu Restoration
July 1336
Spurned by Go-Daigo, the powerful warrior reversed sides and marched on the capital with a formidable army of eastern samurai. He installed a rival emperor of the Northern Court and would establish his own shogunate at Muromachi. Go-Daigo fled south to Yoshino, beginning Japan's six-decade Nanboku-cho civil war between two imperial lines.
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Era
Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.
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