1520

Eishô 17 (永正十七年)

Other Events of 1520

• Hosokawa Takakuni drives Shogun Ashikaga Yoshitane out of Kyoto; he travels as an exile to Awaji Island.
• The Hosokawa clan sends a tally trade mission to China, consisting of one ship. It arrives three years later, at the same time as an Ôuchi clan mission, sparking the 1523 Ningbo Incident.
• Jinbo Yoshimune attacks Nagao Tamekage at Shinjô castle and is defeated.
• Nagao Tamekage attacks Etchû province and defeats the Shiina clan.
• The Kingdom of Ryûkyû's trading partners in Southeast Asia are reduced to only Patani and Siam.
• Yogaiyama castle is completed.

Births and Deaths

• Former Kanrei Hosokawa Sumimoto dies in Shikoku.
• Ichijô Fusamoto is born.
• Imai Sôkyû is born (d. 1593).
• Jinbo Yoshimune commits suicide.
• Miyoshi Yukinaga commits suicide.

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