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Events on Tuesday 14 May 1878 1
1830 – 1878Okubo Toshimichi (1830-1878)Died 14 May 1878, aged 47A Japanese statesman regarded as one of the three great nobles who led the Meiji Restoration, he was a principal architect of Japan's modernization as a government minister. He was assassinated in Tokyo by disaffected samurai opposed to his reforms. His death marked the end of the Restoration's founding generation of leaders.