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Japanese Chronological Table

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Start of human activity on the Japanese archipelago.

ca.100,000B.C.

Spread of Late Paleolithic Culture.

ca.30,000B.C.

First use of pottery on Japanese archipelago.

ca.10,000B.C.

First production of clay images.

ca.7,000B.C.

First large Jomon communities.

ca.3,000B.C.

Establishment of Yayoi Culture in northern Kyushu. Start of rice cultivation.

ca.300B.C.

King Na of Wa (Japan) sends tribute to Eastern Han dynasty and is bestowed gift of a gold seal.

57 A.D.

First construction of large graves with burial mounds in western Japan.

ca.200

Queen Himiko of Yamatai in Wa sends emissaries to Wei in China.

239

Keyhole-shaped burial mounds are constructed in many parts of western Japan.

ca.300

Wa sends troops to the Korean peninsula (monument of Haotai Wang).

Religious rites begin around this time on Okinoshima off the coast of Kyushu.

391

King of Wa starts in this year to send tribute to the Southern Court in China.

421

Forging of the iron swords later unearthed at the Inariyama Burial Mound in Saitama Prefecture.

471

Buddhism introduced from Paekche on the Korean peninsula (538 according to one theory).

552

King of Wa sends emissaries to the Sui Dynasty in China.

600

Prince Shotoku creates the Seventeen-Article Constitution.

604

First emissaries sent to the Tang Dynasty.

630

Taika Reforms.

645

Japanese troops defeated by troops of Tang and Silla on the Korean peninsula. Defenses of western Japan are strengthened.

663

Completion of the Taiho Ritsuryo Code. Establishment of a state based on the Ritsuryo laws.

701

Capital is moved to Heijokyo (Nara).

710

Construction of Tagajo Castle in Tohoku region (monument of Tagajo) .

724

Completion of the Great Buddha at Todaiji Temple.

752

Belongings of Emperor Shomu moved to Todaiji. Construction of Shosoin.

758

Hyakumanto Darani (Dharani of the Million Towers) is completed.

770

Transfer of the capital to Heiankyo (Kyoto).

794

Practice of sending emissaries to China is discontinued.

894

Fujiwara Michinaga takes hold of power. Flourishing of the Fujiwara family.

995

Murasaki Shikibu completes The Tale of Genji.

1005

Sutra mounds created in great numbers out of beliefs that Mappo (The Age of Decline) has started.

1052

Minamoto Yoritomo establishes his headquarters in Kamakura.

1180

Yoritomo becomes Seii tai shogun ("Barbarian Conquering General") and establishes the Kamakura shogunate.

1192

Monk Shinran founds the Jodo Shinshu Sect (Ikko Sect).

1224

Monk Ippen founds the Ji Sect.

1275

Collapse of Kamakura shogunate. Kamakura enveloped in the flames of war.

1333

Ashikaga Takauji becomes Seii tai shogun and founds the Muromachi shogunate.

1338

Japanese pirates begin raid along China's coastline.

1350

Ashikaga Yoshimitsu restores relations with Ming China. Ashikaga is recognized by the Ming court as the "King of Japan".

1401

Sho Hashi unites all of Okinawa and becomes the Ryukyu King.

1422

Do ikki uprising develops in Kyoto and results in the Tokusei edict. Tea ceremony begins to flourish at this time.

1441

Onin War. Kyoto is enveloped in flames of war.

1467

Ikko ikki breaks out in Kaga and assumes control of the entire Kaga Province.

1488

Asakura Norikage quells the Ikko ikki.

1531

Date Tanemune enacts the Jinkaishu which established domain. Daimyo in different areas begin at this time to enact their own legal systems.

1536

Portuguese bring guns to Tanegashima.

1543

Francis Xavier arrives in Japan to begin missionary activities.

1549

Fall of the Asakura daimyo family in Ichijodani, Echizen Province.

1573

Toyotomi Hideyoshi unites all of Japan.

Start of printing of Christian books in Romanized Japanese.

1590

Start of the system of Shuinsen or "red seal ships". Hideyoshi sends troops to Korea.

1592

Tokugawa Ieyasu becomes Seii tai shogun, establishes the Edo shogunate.

1603

Ieyasu has bronze movable type forged to print the Suruga edition.

1607

The hishigaki kaisen (lozenge-fenced cargo ships) begin to sail regularly between Edo and Osaka.

1619

Shogunate forbids Japanese to travel overseas.

Start of the sankin kotai system which required daimyo to reside alternate years in Edo.

Construction of national roads.

1635

Entry of Portuguese ships forbidden. Start of sakoku, a period in which Japan was closed off to the outside world.

1639

Dutch Trading Mission is moved to Dejima in Nagasaki which becomes the only port in Japan where foreign trade is allowed.

1641

Promulgation of the Keian no ofuregaki, a document outlining the duties and conduct of the farmers.

1649

Great Edo Fire. Following this, large spaces are created in the city to prevent further fires.

1657

Ainu rebellion in Ezochi (Hokkaido).

1669

Kawamura Zuiken opens eastern sea route. Western sea route is opened in following year.

1671

Start of Genroku Period. Development of Edo culture including Kabuki and Bunraku.

1688

Kyoho Famine. Rice stores broken into as prices on rice soar.

1732

Russian ships land in Ezochi, request trade.

1778

Ino Tadataka produces first accurate maps of the Japan's coastline.

1821

Franz von Siebold, a German physician of the Dutch Trading Mission, is banished from Japan for bringing maps of Japan out of the country.

1828

Admiral Perry arrives in Uraga and demands that Japan opens its ports.

1853

Japan concludes friendship treaties with the United States, Britain, Russia, France and the Netherlands. The ports of Hakodate, Shimoda and Nagasaki are opened to foreign trade.

1854

Meiji Restoration. Edo's name is changed to Tokyo ("Eastern Capital") .

1868

The Ryuku Islands become Okinawa Prefecture.

1879

Promulgation of the Constitution of the Empire of Japan.

1889

Outbreak of Russo-Japanese War.

1904

Korea becomes a Japanese colony.

1910

Japan presents China with a set of 21 demands for expanding its rights in China.

1915

Start of a financial panic. Government declares moratorium on gold standard.

1927

The so-called Liutaochu Incident is used as a pretext for the start of military maneuvers in northeast China. Start of invasion of China.

1931

Start of Pacific War.

1941

Promulgation of the Constitution of Japan. Agrarian reforms.

1946

Signing of the Treaty of San Francisco.

1951

Enactment of the Basic Agricultural Law.

1961

Start of the New Tokaido Railway (Shinkansen). Beginning of free economic system.

1964

Outbreak of itaiitai sickness in Toyama Prefecture (first case of pollution related diseases due to industrial wastes).

1967

一通りやってみると、「この項目はあるのにあれは無いな」とか、「本当にこの年でいいんだっけ」とか、いろいろ思う事もあったが、まあ良しとした。