The Sakuradamon Incident (桜田門外の変, Sakuradamon-gai no Hen, or 桜田門の変 Sakuradamon no Hen) was the assassination of Ii Naosuke, Chief Minister (Tairō) of the...

Sakuradamon incident may refer to: Sakuradamon Incident (1860), the assassination of Ii Naosuke, Japanese Chief Minister Sakuradamon Incident (1932),...

himself murdered in March 1860 in the Sakuradamon incident. A servant of the French Minister was attacked at the end of 1860. On 14 January 1861, Henry...

immortalized as the Statue of Hachiko. On January 8, 1932, in the Sakuradamon incident (1932), there was another attempted assassination on Hirohito, when...

both of samurai descent; some ancestors were involved in the 1860 Sakuradamon Incident on the side of the rōnin, and others were ochimusha under the...

Ansei Purge, drove young Mito radicals to assassinate him in 1860 (Sakuradamon Incident). In response to the assassination, the shogunate pacified the...

Imperial Palace, in Tokyo, Japan. It was the location of the Sakuradamon Incident in 1860, in which Tairō Ii Naosuke was assassinated outside the gate...

officials was distracted by the news of what became known as the "Sakuradamon Incident" in Tokyo. The Tairō Ii Naosuke had been assassinated on March 24;...

Tuscany is annexed to the newly formed Kingdom of Italy. March 24 – Sakuradamon Incident: Rōnin samurai of the Mito Domain in Japan assassinate tairō (Chief...

priceless historical record. The assassination of Ii Naosuke in the Sakuradamon Incident (1860) was followed by a general pardon in 1862. Yoshikatsu went to...