Fall of Kamakura
The end of Japan's first shogunate
Nitta Yoshisada, fighting for Emperor Go-Daigo, stormed the shogunate's seat at Kamakura; the regent Hōjō Takatoki and hundreds of his retainers took their own lives. The shogunate that had ruled since 1192 fell, but three years later power passed to new shoguns, the Ashikaga.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- 1315–1317 Great Famine — 18 years earlier
- c. 1320 Dante completes the Divine Comedy — 13 years earlier
- 1337–1453 Hundred Years' War — 4 years later
- 1346 Battle of Crécy — 13 years later
- 1347–1351 Black Death — 14 years later
Eastern Europe & Russia
- c. 1337 Sergius of Radonezh founds his monastery — 4 years later
Middle East
- 1354 Ottomans take Gallipoli — 21 years later
Africa
- 1324 Hajj of Mansa Musa — 9 years earlier
- c. 1327 The Djinguereber Mosque in Timbuktu — 6 years earlier
Americas
- c. 1325 Founding of Tenochtitlan — 8 years earlier
Alive at the time
- Mansa Musa (aged 53)
- Orhan (aged 52)
- Emperor Go-Daigo (aged 45)
- Ivan Kalita (aged 45)
- Ibn Battuta (aged 29)
- Ashikaga Takauji (aged 28)
- Edward III (aged 21)
- Sergius of Radonezh (aged 19)
- Charles IV (aged 17)
- Murad I (aged 7)