East Asia
500 BCE – 1900 CE
China, Japan, Korea, and their neighbours together — the shared and competing histories of the East Asian world.
1401 events · 112 people · 14 eras
Key events
- Battle of the Hydaspes325 BCEbattle fought by Alexander the Great in 326 BCE against King Porus of the Paurava kingdom on the banks of the Hydaspes River (Jhelum River) in the Punjab near Bhera
- Battle of Talas751 CE751 battle between the Abbasid Caliphate and the Chinese Tang dynasty
- Ōnin War1467 CE15th-century civil war in Japan
- 1556 Shaanxi earthquake1556 CEMagnitude 8 Earthquake (23 Janaury 1556) in Shaanxi, China; regarded as deadliest earthquake in recorded history
- Japanese invasions of Korea1592 CE1592-1598 campaigns against Joseon by Toyotomi Hideyoshi
- Battle of Sekigahara1600 CEThe Battle of Sekigahara was an important battle in Japan which occurred on October 21, 1600 in what is now Gifu Prefecture, Japan, at the end of the Sengoku period.
- Siege of Osaka1614 CE1614-1615 series of battles undertaken by the Tokugawa shogunate against the Toyotomi clan
- Second Opium War1856 CE1856–1860 war between British–French forces and China
- Convention of Kanagawa1864 CEtreaty
- Sino-French War1884 CElimited conflict (1881–1885) between France and China
- First Sino-Japanese War1894 CE1894–1895 war between the Qing dynasty and the Empire of Japan over influence in Joseon, fought chiefly in Joseon
- Treaty of Shimonoseki1895 CEtreaty signed at the Shunpanrō hall, Shimonoseki, Japan on April 17, 1895, between the Empire of Japan and the Qing Empire, ending the First Sino-Japanese War.
Notable people
- Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington1769 CE – 1852 CE
- Oda Nobunaga1534 CE – 1582 CE
- Tokugawa Ieyasu1543 CE – 1616 CE
- Toyotomi Hideyoshi1537 CE – 1598 CE
- Emperor Meiji1852 CE – 1912 CE
- Minamoto no Yoritomo1147 CE – 1199 CE
- Prince Shōtoku574 CE – 622 CE
- Ahmed Shahe Durrani1722 CE – 1772 CE
- Murasaki Shikibu973 CE – 1014 CE
- Saigō Takamori1828 CE – 1877 CE
- Cao Cao155 CE – 220 CE
- Itō Hirobumi1841 CE – 1909 CE
Eras spanning this view
Yayoi period300 BCE – 250 CEKofun period250 CE – 538 CEAsuka period538 CE – 710 CENara period710 CE – 794 CEHeian period794 CE – 1185 CEKamakura period1185 CE – 1333 CEMuromachi period1336 CE – 1573 CEMing dynasty1368 CE – 1644 CEMughal Empire1526 CE – 1857 CEAzuchi–Momoyama period1573 CE – 1603 CEEdo period1603 CE – 1868 CEQing dynasty1644 CE – 1912 CEBritish Raj1858 CE – 1947 CEMeiji era1868 CE – 1912 CE
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