Assassination of Ii Naosuke
1860 · Event
The shogun's chief minister — who signed the foreign treaties and purged his critics — is cut down by samurai in the snow outside Edo Castle's Sakurada Gate. The shogunate never again finds a strongman; a decade of political murder begins.
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