The Spanish ship San Felipe runs aground on the coast of Japan and its cargo is confiscated by local authorities.

San Felipe incident (1596)

Spanish shipwreck in Japan with political consequences

On October 19, 1596, the Spanish ship San Felipe was shipwrecked on Urado in Kōchi on the Japanese island of Shikoku en route from Manila to Acapulco. The local daimyo Chōsokabe Motochika seized the cargo of the richly laden Manila galleon, and the incident escalated to Toyotomi…