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Japan

300 BCE – 2000 CE

The full arc of the Japanese archipelago — from the Yayoi and the imperial court through the shogunates to the modern nation.

927 events · 15 people · 13 eras

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Key events

  1. Ōnin War1467 CE
    15th-century civil war in Japan
  2. Battle of Sekigahara1600 CE
    The 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.
  3. Siege of Osaka1614 CE
    1614-1615 series of battles undertaken by the Tokugawa shogunate against the Toyotomi clan
  4. Convention of Kanagawa1864 CE
    treaty
  5. Treaty of Shimonoseki1895 CE
    treaty 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.
  6. Battle of Lake Khasan1938 CE
    The Battle of Lake Khasan, also known as the Changkufeng Incident, was an attempted military incursion by Manchukuo, a Japanese puppet state, into territory claimed and controlled by the Soviet Union. The incursion, which occurred from 29 July to 11 August 1938, was founded in the Japanese belief that the Soviet Union had misinterpreted the demarcation of the boundary based on the Treaty of Peking between Imperial Russia and Qing China, and had subsequently tampered with the demarcation markers. Japanese forces occupied the disputed area but withdrew after heavy fighting and a diplomatic settlement.
  7. Japan Air Lines Flight 1231985 CE
    1985 aviation accident in Japan
  8. Tokyo subway sarin attack1995 CE
    1995 terrorist attack by Japanese cult Aum Shinrikyo
  9. Battle of Dan-no-ura1185 CE
    The Battle of Dan-no-ura was a major sea battle of the Genpei War, occurring at Dan-no-ura, in the Kanmon Straits off the southern tip of Honshū. On April 25, 1185, the fleet of the Minamoto ('Genji') clan, led by general Minamoto no Yoshitsune, defeated the fleet of the Taira clan (Heike). The morning rip tide was an advantage for the Taira, but turned to their disadvantage in the afternoon. The young Emperor Antoku was one of those who died among the Taira nobles.
  10. Honnō-ji Incident1582 CE
    forced suicide of Oda Nobunaga at the hands of traitor Akechi Mitsuhide
  11. Great Hanshin Earthquake1995 CE
    The Kobe earthquake, also known as the Great Hanshin Earthquake , occurred on January 17, 1995, at 05:46:53 JST in the southern part of Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan, including the region of Hanshin. It measured 6.9 on the moment magnitude scale and had a maximum intensity of 7 on the JMA Seismic Intensity Scale. The tremors lasted for approximately 20 seconds. The focus of the earthquake was located 17 km beneath its epicenter, on the northern end of Awaji Island, 20 km away from the center of the city of Kobe.
  12. Shimonoseki Campaign1864 CE
    conflict

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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 CEAzuchi–Momoyama period1573 CE – 1603 CEEdo period1603 CE – 1868 CEMeiji era1868 CE – 1912 CETaishō era1912 CE – 1926 CEShōwa era1926 CE – 1989 CEHeisei era1989 CE – 2019 CE

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