When Lê Chiêu Tông fled the capital to rally loyalists, Mạc Đăng Dung set up his younger brother Lê Xuân as emperor Thống Nguyên, leaving the country with two rival emperors.
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Accession of Lê Cung Hoàng
- 22 July 1522
- Southeast Asia
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