Japan Chronicles


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History Table

Events within Japan
Events in other countries
 
Jomon Era (B.C. 80c - B.C. 3c)
Circa 8000 B.C. Birth of the Culture Jomon
660 B.C. Foundation of the Country of Japan
Circa 510 B.C. Foundation of the Republic of Rome
Circa 450 B.C. Rome, Law of the Twelve Tables
Yayoi Era (B.C. 3c - 3c)
Circa 300 B.C. Birth of the Culture Yayoi
73 B.C. Revolution of Spartacus (-71 B.C.)
Circa 4 B.C. Birth of Jesus Christ
Circa 30 The Cross of Jesus Christ
64 Fire of Rome. Beginning of the persecution of Christians
239 Himiko, the queen of Yamatai, sends an ambassador to the China of Wei
Circa 370 The Yamato Dinasty unifies Japan
376 Beginning of the migration of the German people
Asuka Era (5c-710)
538 Introduction of Buddhism in Japan
604 Constitution of the Seventeen Articles
607 Ono no Imoko, ambassador to the Chinese court of Sui
622 Hegira of Muhammad from Mecca to Medina: beginning of the Muslim era
630 The first Japanese delegation to the Chinese court of Tang
645 The Taika Reform
672 Battle of Jinshin between Prince Oama and Prince Otomo. Transference of the Capital to Asuka
701 Ritsuryo system (mixture of administrative and penal codes)
Nara Era (710-794)
712 "Kojiki"
720 "Nihonshoki"
Circa 770 "Man'yoshu"
Heian Era (794-1192)
794 Transference of the capital to Kyoto by Emperor Kammu
Circa 800 Ideation of the syllabic alphabet "kana"
805 Saicho establishes Tendaishu
816 Kukai establishes Shingonshu from the tantric Buddhism
843 Treaty of Verdun, division the Kingdom of Frank into three kingdoms
894 Abolishment of delegation to the Chinese court of Tang
962 Foundation of the Sacred Roman Empire
Circa 1011 Murasaki Shikibu, "The Tale of Genji"
1053 Construction of the Pavilion of the Phoenix near the Byodoin Temple
1054 Definitive fracture between the Oriental Church and the Occidental one
1077 Humiliation of the Emperor Henry IV at Canossa
1096 Primary Crusade (-1099)
1147 Secondary Crusade (-1149)
1155 Reign of Fredrick I Barbarossa (-1190)
1175 Honen establishes Jodoshu
1189 Tertially Crusade (-1192)
Kamakura Era (1192-1333)
1192 Beginning of the Kamakura Shogunate by Yoritomo Minamoto
1215 Concession of the "Magna Carta Libertatum"
1250 Death of Fredrick II
1274 First invasion by the Mongolian fleet
1281 Second invasion by the Mongolian fleet
1299 Foundation of the Ottoman Empire
1300 Bonifacius VIII institutes the Prime Jubilee
1333 End of the Kamakura Shogunate
Muromachi Era (1336-1573)
1336 Beginning of the Muromachi Shogunate by Takauji Ashikaga
1339 Hundred-year War between France and England (-1453)
1346 Epidemia by pest (-1350)
1397 Construction of the Gold Pavilion in Kyoto
1446 In Korea, the fourth king Sejong promulgates the syllabic alphabet "hangul"
1489 Construction of the Silver Pavilion in Kyoto
1492 Christofer Columbus arrives at America
1513 Machiavelli, "Il principe"
1517 Martin Luter proposes the 95 thesises of the part of the Dome of Wittenberg
1534 Foundation of the Company of Jesus
1543 Introduction of the first firearms in Japan by part of Portuguese
1549 Francesco Saverio arrives at Kagoshima
1573 Nobunaga Oda terminates the Muromachi Shogunate
Azuchi-Momoyama Era (1573-1603)
1579 Alessandro Valignano, Jesuitic Visitant, arrives at Japan
1580 Valignano establishes a seminar at Arima and a college at Usuki
1582 Gregorius XIII reforms the Julian calendar
The delegation by the Japanese Christian young nobles leaves for Rome
The number of Japanese Christians reaches the 150,000 unit
1585 The Pope Gregorius XIII receives the first Japanese delegation
1587 Hideyoshi Toyotomi orders the expulsion of the missionaries from Japan
1590 Hideyoshi Toyotomi unifies the whole country
Valignano returns to Japan together with the Japanese Christian young nobles with a typographic press
1593 The Franciscans begin their missionaries in Japan
1595 Publication at Amakusa of "De Institutione Grammatica" and "Ditionarim Latino Lustitanicum ac Japonicum" by Alvarez
1600 Battle of Sekigahara between Tokugawa and Toyotomi
Edo Era (1603-1867)
1603 Ieyasu Tokugawa establishes the Shogunate in Edo (Tokyo)
1613 Tsunenaga Hasekura leaves for Rome with a Franciscan Luis Sotelo
1618 Beginning of the War of Thirty Years (-1648)
1624 Declaration of expulsion from Japan of Spanish missionaries
Circa 1629
1633 Galileo Galilei is 
1637 Revolution by Christians at Shimabara (-1638)
1702 Vendetta by 47 ronin of Ako
1716 Publication of "Kangxi Dictionary"
1740 War of Austrian Succession (-1748)
1755 Samuel Johnson, "A Dictionary of the English Language"
1774 Gempaku Sugita translates from Dutch into Japanese "Anatosche Tabellen" by J. A. Kulmus
1776 Declaration of Independence of the United States
1789 Beginning of the French Revolution
1806 Abolishment of the Sacred Roman Empire
1814 Congress of Vienna (-1815)
1828 Noah Webster, "An American Dictionary of the English Language"
1853 Arrival at Uraga of the four black naval ships by Commodore Matthew Perry
1854 Treaty of Friendship at Kanagawa between Japan and the United States
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm begin publishing "Deutsches W?rterbuch"
1867 Proclamation of the "Return to the antique monarchy"
Meiji Era (1868-1912)
1868 Meiji Reform. Transference of the capital from Kyoto to Edo, which is called Tokyo
Six Western countries, England, the United States, France, Italy, Holland and Prussia, declare the neutrality
1869 The six countries revoke the neutrality
Opening of the Suez Canal
1870 Beginning of the Franco-Prussian War
1871 Imperial rescript for the abolishment of the "han" and institution of the prefectures
Tomomi Iwakura and other ministers leave for Europe and the United States
1889 Proclamation of the Meiji Constitution
1894 Chino-Japanese War (-1895)
1904 Russo-Japanese War (-1905)
Taisho Era (1912-1926)
1914 Beginning of the World War I (-1918)
Japan participates in the World War I
1917 The United States enters into War
Beginning of the Russian Revolution
1919 Treaty of Versailles
1920 Foundation of the Society of the Nations
1921 Conference in Washington (-1922)
1922 Birth of the USSR
Showa Era (1926-1989)
1929 Beginning of the Recession
1931 Incident of Mukden
1932 Proclamation of the foundation of Manciukuo
1933 New Deal by F. D. Roosevelt
Retirement by Japan from the Society of the Nations
Hitler forms the government
1945 Liberation of Italy, Mussolini is killed.
Surrender of Germany
Atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Surrender of Japan
1946 The International Military Tribunal for the Far East (-1948)
1947 New Japanese Constitution
Marshall Plan
1949 Birth of NATO
1951 Treaty of Peace at San Francisco
1956 Japan joins the UN
1964 New line "Shinkansen" between Tokyo and Osaka
Olympic Games in Tokyo
1989 Death of Emperor Showa (Hirohito)
Heisei Era (1989-present)
1989
1990
1991 Gulf War
End of USSR and birth of the Comunities of Independent States
1992 Integration of EC
1994 Beginning of World Wide Web
1995 Hanshin-Awaji Great Earthquake
Terrorism by AUM cult
1996
1997
1998

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