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Eras and events in Japan |
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Many dates before the 17th centurv are approximate JOMON (c. 10,000 - 300 BC) YAYOI (c. 300 BC - AD 300) KOFUN (c. 300 - 592) ASUKA (592 - 710) NARA (710 - 794) HEIAN (794- 1185) KAMAKURA (1185- 1333) NANBOKUCHO (1333 - 1378) MUROMACHI (1378 - 1573) 1543 Teppo Denrai : First Portuguese land on Tanegashima Island and introduce matchlock guns to Japan 1549 St Francis Xavier Arrives in Kyushu: a beginning of the Christian era and Namban era. 1573 Nobunaga Oda overthrow Shogun Yoshiaki AZUCHI-MOMOYAMA (1573 - 1603) 1582 Nobunaga Oda assassinated 1590 Hideyoshi Toyotomi rules the whole nation 1596 The Spanish arrives in Japan. 1600 The Dutch arrives in Japan. 1598 Hideyoshi Toyotomi dies EDO (1603 - 18671) . 1603 leyasu Tokagawa becomes the Shogun 1613 The English arrives in Japan. Ban of Chnstianity 1623 The English withdraw from Japan 1624 The Spanish expelled. 1639 The Portuguese expelled .Beginning of self-imposed seclusion, sokoka. Beginning of Komo Era. 1830s Hokusai's series of ukiyo-e Fugaku sanjurokkei (Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji) and Hokusai Manga appear about this time. 1833 Hiroshige's ukiyo-e Tokaido gojusantsugi ( Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido Road) begins. 1853 Kurofune Raiho: Commodore Perry of the USA visited Japan requesting the country to be open 1854 Commercial treaty agreement with the USA: end of sakoku. 1867 The Shogun, Yoshinobu Tokugawa resigns . MEIJI (1868 - 1912) 1862 International Exhibition, London 1867 Exposition Universelle, Paris 1868 The Meiji Restoration. 1872 First railway between Tokyo to Yokohama open 1873 Welt Ausstellung in Wien. 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition 1893 World's columbian Exposition, Chicago 1894 Anglo-Japanese Alliance signed 1894-95 The Sino-Japanese War. 1899 Exposition Universelle, Paris 1904 The St Louis Purchase Exhibition 1904-05 The Russo-Japanese 1910 Japan-British Exhibition, London TAISHO (1912 - 1926) 1914 Japan enters World War I on the side of Great Britain and the allies 1923 Great Tokyo Earthquake SHOWA (1926-1986) HEISEI (1989-present) |
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