Events on March 24 in history

Sakuradamon Incident (1860) (March 24, 1860)

Sakuradamon Incident: Assassination of Japanese Chief Minister (Tairō) Ii Naosuke.

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 Tokugawa Shogunate, on March 24, 1860 by rōnin samurai of the Mito Domain and Satsuma Domain, outside the Sakurada Gate of Edo Castle.

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Meeting of Teano. Giuseppe Garibaldi, conqueror of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, gives it to King Victor Emmanuel II of Italy.

Events on March 24 in history

Sakuradamon Incident (1860) (March 24, 1860)

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Italian unification

Giuseppe Garibaldi

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San Francisco

Giuseppe Garibaldi