| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 1990 |
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| 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 |
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| 1997 |
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| 1998 |
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