The generals Nguyễn Hoằng Dụ and Trịnh Tuy fought each other inside the capital until Hoằng Dụ fled to Thanh Hóa; the same year a great famine struck, worst in the war-torn districts of Hải Dương and Kinh Bắc.
Battle
Factional fighting in Đông Kinh and the famine of 1517
- 1517
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