Hideyoshi Avenges Nobunaga at Yamazaki
1582
Thirteen days after Nobunaga's death at Honno-ji, his general Toyotomi Hideyoshi forced-marched his army back from the siege of Takamatsu and crushed the traitor Akechi Mitsuhide at the battle of Yamazaki. Mitsuhide was killed by peasants while fleeing. Hideyoshi, once a lowly foot soldier, was now Japan's most powerful man.
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- Honno-ji Incident · East Asia · Politics
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Renaissance (1501–1650), one of 715 events from that era on Saeculum.