Emperor Go-Daigo
1288 CE–1339 CE · Heian-kyo (Kyoto)
Emperor Go-Daigo (1288-1339) was a Japanese emperor who sought to restore direct imperial rule after generations of government by military shoguns. In 1333 he overthrew the Kamakura shogunate with the help of allied warriors and established the short-lived Kenmu Restoration, an attempt at personal imperial government that quickly alienated the samurai class. When his former ally Ashikaga Takauji turned against him and installed a rival emperor, Go-Daigo fled to Yoshino and founded the Southern Court, beginning the decades-long era of rival northern and southern imperial lines.
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- Al-Nasir Muhammad· 1285 CE–1341 CE
- Ivan I Kalita· 1288 CE–1340 CE
- Muhammad bin Tughluq· –1351 CE
- Amda Seyon I· –1344 CE
- Orhan· 1281 CE–1362 CE
- Mansa Musa· –1337 CE
- Robert the Bruce· 1274 CE–1329 CE
- Gajah Mada· –1364 CE
- Ashikaga Takauji· 1305 CE–1358 CE
- Ghiyath al-Din Tughlaq· –1325 CE
- Osman I· 1254 CE–1324 CE
- Qutbuddin Mubarak Shah· –1320 CE
- Alauddin Khalji· –1316 CE
- Raden Wijaya· –1309 CE
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