Mạc Đăng Dung forced Lê Cung Hoàng to abdicate, proclaimed himself emperor with the era name Minh Đức and founded the Mạc dynasty; the deposed king and his mother were made to kill themselves.
Founding
Mạc Đăng Dung seizes the throne
- 15 June 1527
- Southeast Asia
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