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<TITLE>Intrigued by culture - Japan's timeline</TITLE>
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<font color="red">Timeline of Japanese historical events from the "The History of Japan Greenwood Histories of the Modern Nations" by Perez, Louis G</font>
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<tr><td>1500–250 </td><td>B.C.Jomon Era of hunters and gatherers </td></tr><tr>
<td>250 B.C.–A.D. 250 </td>
<td>Yayoi Era; iron and wet-rice introduced</td></tr><tr>
<td>140–160 </td>
<td>Himiko and Iyo shaman-emperors </td></tr><tr>
<td>250–550 </td>
<td>Kofun or Tomb period; horse-mounted warrior culture </td></tr><tr>
<td>552 </td>
<td> Introduction of Buddhism to Japan </td></tr><tr>
<td>604 </td>
<td>Seventeen-Article Constitution of Shotoku Taishi </td></tr>
<tr><td>645 </td>
<td>Taika Confucian Reforms</td></tr><tr>
<td>702 </td>
<td> Taiho Code promulgated </td></tr><tr>
<td>710 </td>
<td>First imperial capital in Nara </td></tr><tr>
<td>794 </td>
<td> Transfer of capital to Heian-kyo (Kyoto) </td></tr><tr>
<td>1002–19 </td>
<td>Murasaki Shikibu writes Tale of Genji </td></tr><tr>
<td>1175 </td>
<td>Pureland sect founded by Honen </td></tr><tr>
<td>1192 </td>
<td>Founding of Kamkura Bakufu by Minamoto Yoritomo </td></tr><tr>
<td>1224 </td>
<td>True Pureland sect founded by Shinran </td></tr><tr>
<td>1253 </td>
<td> Nichiren sect founded </td></tr><tr>
<td>1274 and 1281 </td>
<td>Attempted Mongol Invasions </td></tr><tr>
<td>1333 </td>
<td>Founding of Ashikaga Bakufu </td></tr><tr>
<td>1336–92 </td>
<td>Southern Imperial Court in Yoshino</td></tr><tr>
<td>1467–77 </td>
<td> Sacking of Kyoto (Onin War) </td></tr><tr>
<td>1543 </td>
<td> Portuguese arrive in Japan at Tanegashima </td></tr><tr>
<td>1582 </td>
<td> Suicide of Oda Nobunaga </td></tr><tr>
<td>1587 </td>
<td>Sword hunt and military unification by Toyotomi Hideyoshi </td></tr><tr>
<td>1587 </td>
<td>Anti-Christian edict by Hideyoshi </td></tr><tr>
<td>1592–98 </td>
<td>Korean Expedition </td></tr><tr>
<td>1597 </td>
<td> Twenty-six Christians crucified at Nagasaki </td></tr><tr>
<td>1598 </td>
<td> Death of Hideyoshi </td></tr><tr>
<td>1600 </td>
<td>Battle of Sekigahara </td></tr><tr>
<td>1603 </td>
<td> Tokugawa Ieyasu becomes shogun; foundation of bakufu </td></tr><tr>
<td>1614 </td>
<td> Battle of Osaka Castle; Toyotomi Hideyori dies </td></tr><tr>
<td>1637–38 </td>
<td>Shimabara Rebellion; Sakoku instituted </td></tr><tr>
<td>1833–37 </td>
<td> Tempo Famine </td></tr><tr>
<td>1837 </td>
<td>Oshio Heihachiro leads rebellion in Osaka </td></tr><tr>
<td>1853 </td>
<td>Arrival of Commodore Perry </td></tr><tr>
<td>1854 </td>
<td>Treaty of Kanagawa signed </td></tr><tr>
<td>1856–58</td>
<td>Beginnings of Unequal Treaties </td></tr><tr>
<td>1867–68 </td>
<td>Meiji Restoration </td></tr><tr>
<td>1871–73 </td>
<td>Haihan Chiken; universal male conscription; land reform </td></tr><tr>
<td>1871–73 </td>
<td>Iwakura Mission </td></tr><tr>
<td>1873 </td>
<td> Korean Affair, many resign from government </td></tr><tr>
<td>1874 </td>
<td>Taiwan Expedition; Saga Rebellion; suicide of Eto Shimpei </td></tr><tr>
<td>1877 </td>
<td>Satsuma Rebellion; suicide of Saigo Takamori </td></tr><tr>
<td>1878 </td>
<td> Assassination of Okubo Toshimichi </td></tr><tr>
<td>1881 </td>
<td> Okuma ousted from government; constitution promised </td></tr><tr>
<td>1889 </td>
<td>Meiji Constitution </td></tr><tr>
<td>1890 </td>
<td>First Diet Election; Imperial Rescript on Education </td></tr><tr>
<td>1894 </td>
<td>Mutsu Munemitsu revises Unequal Treaties </td></tr><tr>
<td>1894–95 </td>
<td>First Sino-Japanese War and Treaty of Shimonoseki </td></tr><tr>
<td>1895 </td>
<td> Triple Intervention </td></tr><tr>
<td>1898 </td>
<td> Civil Code enacted </td></tr><tr>
<td>1899 </td>
<td>Unequal Treaties lapse </td></tr><tr>
<td>1900 </td>
<td> Boxer Rebellion </td></tr><tr>
<td>1902 </td>
<td>First Anglo-Japanese Alliance </td></tr><tr>
<td>1904–5 </td>
<td> Russo-Japanese War and Treaty of Portsmouth </td></tr><tr>
<td>1906 </td>
<td>San Francisco passes Anti-Japanese school laws </td></tr><tr>
<td>1908 </td>
<td>United States announces foundation of Pearl Harbor </td></tr><tr>
<td>1909 </td>
<td> Ito Hirobumi assassinated by Korean patriot </td></tr><tr>
<td>1910 </td>
<td> Korea annexed by Japan; Great Treason Incident </td></tr><tr>
<td>1912 </td>
<td> Meiji Emperor dies; Nogi and wife commit suicide </td></tr><tr>
<td>1914 </td>
<td> Japan enters WWI, attacking German positions in China </td></tr><tr>
<td>1915 </td>
<td>Twenty-One Demands on China </td></tr><tr>
<td>1918 </td>
<td>Rice Riots; first Party Cabinet under Hara Takashi </td></tr><tr>
<td>1919 </td>
<td>Treaty of Versailles and May Fourth Movement in China </td></tr><tr>
<td>1921–22 </td>
<td>Washington Naval Conference; Four-Power Treaty </td></tr><tr>
<td>1921 </td>
<td>Hara Takashi assassinated; Hirohito becomes regent </td></tr><tr>
<td>1923 </td>
<td> Great Kanto Earthquake, thousands of Koreans killed </td></tr><tr>
<td>1925 </td>
<td>Universal Manhood Suffrage; Peace Preservation Laws </td></tr><tr>
<td>1926 </td>
<td>Taisho Emperor dies, Showa Emperor ascends </td></tr><tr>
<td>1928 </td>
<td> Assassination of Zhang Zoulin by Kwantung Army </td></tr><tr>
<td>1930 </td>
<td> London Naval Conference </td></tr><tr>
<td>1931 </td>
<td>Mukden Incident </td></tr><tr>
<td>1932 </td>
<td>Manchukuo established; Lytton Report; Inukai assassinated </td></tr><tr>
<td>1933 </td>
<td>Japan walks out of League of Nations </td></tr><tr>
<td>1936 </td>
<td>Anti-Comintern Pact </td></tr><tr>
<td>1937 </td>
<td>Marco Polo Bridge Incident; start of WWII </td></tr><tr>
<td>1937 </td>
<td> Rape of Nanjing; Panay Incident </td></tr><tr>
<td>1939 </td>
<td> Anti-Comintern Pact with Germany and Italy signed </td></tr><tr>
<td>1940 </td>
<td>Tri-Partite Pact (Japan, Germany, and Italy) </td></tr><tr>
<td>1941 </td>
<td>Neutrality Pact with Russia </td></tr><tr>
<td>1941 </td>
<td>Attack on Pearl Harbor </td></tr><tr>
<td>1942 </td>
<td> Battle of Midway </td></tr><tr>
<td>1945 </td>
<td> Battles of Saipan, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa </td></tr><tr>
<td>March 1945 </td>
<td> Firebombing of Tokyo </td></tr><tr>
<td>August 6, 1945 </td>
<td> Atomic bombing of Hiroshima </td></tr><tr>
<td>August 8, 1945 </td>
<td> Russia declares war against Japan</td></tr><tr>
<td>August 9, 1945 </td>
<td>Atomic bombing of Nagasaki </td></tr><tr>
<td>August 15, 1945 </td>
<td>Japan surrenders to Allies </td></tr><tr>
<td>September 1, 1945 </td>
<td> Allied Occupation of Japan begins </td></tr><tr>
<td>1946 </td>
<td> ‘‘MacArthur Peace’’ Constitution was promulgated in 1946, but was not signed until 1947 </td></tr><tr>
<td>1947 </td>
<td>First Postwar election </td></tr><tr>
<td>1951 </td>
<td> San Francisco Peace Treaty signed </td></tr><tr>
<td>1951 </td>
<td> U.S.-Japan Mutual Security Treaty signed </td></tr><tr>
<td>1952 </td>
<td>Allied Occupation ends </td></tr><tr>
<td>1955 </td>
<td>Foundation of Liberal-Democratic Party (LDP) </td></tr><tr>
<td>1956 </td>
<td> Japan admitted to United Nations </td></tr><tr>
<td>1960 </td>
<td>Mutual Security Treaty Demonstrations </td></tr><tr>
<td>1964 </td>
<td> Tokyo hosts Eighteenth Olympic Games </td></tr><tr>
<td>1970 </td>
<td> Mutual Security Treaty revised </td></tr><tr>
<td>1972 </td>
<td>Return of Okinawa; relations with China restored </td></tr><tr>
<td>1973 </td>
<td>OPEC Middle East Oil Crisis </td></tr><tr>
<td>1989 </td>
<td> Death of Showa Emperor, Heisei Emperor ascends </td></tr><tr>
<td>1995 </td>
<td>Great Hanshin earthquake in Kobe region </td></tr><tr>
<td>1995 </td>
<td>Aum Shinrikyo sect bombs Tokyo subway with poison gas </td></tr>
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