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1534Oda Nobunaga is born in Owari Province, Japan.
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1549Oda Nobunaga adds a specialist corps of 500 musketeers to his army.
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1551Oda Nobunaga becomes the lord of Nagoya castle, Japan.
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1554Oda Nobunaga captures Muraki castle after a siege.
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1555Oda Nobunaga razes the town of Kiyosu, Japan.
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1557Oda Nobunaga murders his own brother.
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1559Oda Nobunaga captures and obliterates the fortress of Iwakura, Japan.
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1560Oda Nobunaga defeats the warlord of Mikawa, Imagawa Yoshimoto, at the Battle of Okehazama.
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1568 - 1582Oda Nobunaga seizes Heiankyo (Kyoto) and is the dominant military leader in central Japan.
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1571Oda Nobunaga attacks the Buddhist Enryakuji monastic complex near Kyoto.
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1573Oda Nobunaga exiles the last Ashikaga shogun, Yoshiaki.
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1575Oda Nobunaga wins the Battle of Nagashino.
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1576Oda Nobunaga instigates a 'sword hunt' to confiscate all weapons from the Japanese peasantry.
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1579Oda Nobunaga establishes a new headquarters at Azuchi castle.
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1580Oda Nobunaga attacks the Buddhist temple-fortress of Ishiyama Honganji in Osaka using ship-mounted cannons.
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1582 - 1598Oda Nobunaga and his successor Toyotomi Hideyoshi conduct an extensive land ownership survey across Japan.
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21 Jun 1582Death of Oda Nobunaga.
