Battle of Sekigahara
September 15, 1600
On a fog-drenched plain in central Japan, seventy thousand samurai clashed for six hours until Tokugawa Ieyasu's patient cavalry shattered the loyalist coalition of Ishida Mitsunari. The sword strokes decided two and a half centuries of peace. A shogunate was born, and Kyoto's flickering imperial court became largely decorative, its emperor reduced to ritual and poetry.
In context
Also in 1600 (6 other events on record)
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- Before: 1599: Earl of Essex Fails in Ireland
- After: 1601: Battle of Kinsale
Era
Renaissance (1501–1650), one of 715 events from that era on Saeculum.