Satsuma Rebellion
February 11, 1877
Samurai in southern Japan, angry at the loss of their privileges and rice stipends, rose under Saigo Takamori, one of the architects of the Meiji Restoration. The new conscript army crushed them after eight months of brutal fighting. Saigo, wounded, had a retainer cut off his head. The samurai era ended on a hillside outside Kagoshima.
In context
Also in 1877 (5 other events on record)
- Edison's Phonograph · North America · Technology
- Russo-Turkish War · Middle East · War
- Compromise of 1877 · North America · Politics
- Nez Perce Flight · North America · War
- Great Railroad Strike · North America · Politics
Before and after in East Asia
Before and after in War
- Before: June 25, 1876: Little Bighorn
- After: 1878: Second Anglo-Afghan War
Era
Industrial Age (1801–1900), one of 513 events from that era on Saeculum.
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