Timeline of Ancient Japan

Timeline of Ancient Japan


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  10,000 BC Upper Paleolithic known as the Jomon Era
300 BC The Yayoi period heralding new technologies and skills, many obtained from China
0 AD: Shintoism becomes the national religion ( Japan adopts the Gregorian calendar in 1873 )  
 
250 250-260 Founding of the Great Shrine of Ise
 
500 Japan adopts the Chinese alphabet
 
552 Introduction of Buddhism into Japan
 
645 Kotoku became the emperor of Japan
749 Shomu's daughter Koken, becomes empress
 
794 The Heian era - the Capital of Japan moved to Heian-kyo
838 The Japanese emperor forbids contacts with China
 
1100s The Taira and the Minamoto fought for control of Japan
1180s The Minamoto clan obtained controlled of the country
1181: Great famine kills hundreds of thousands of people
 
1192 Yoritomo was given the title Shogun and led the government which became known as a Shogunate
 
1274 Kublai Khan and the Mongols try to invade Japan but are repelled by "kamikaze"
 
1330 The Ashikaga clan seized power
1467 Civil war erupts in Japan which is split among feudal lords (daimyo)
 
1549 Saint Francis Xavier, a Portuguese missionary, arrived in Japan. The Portuguese were the most successful Europeans in initiating major trade agreements with the Japanese
 
1603 Tokugawa leyasu was given the title of Shogun by the emperor. This title was held by the dynasty for 265 years
 
1614 Ieyasu bans Christianity from Japan
 
1630s The Japanese broke ties with all foreigners for the next two hundred years
1707 Mount Fuji erupts
 
1854 The Japanese agree to open two ports to the United States for trade
1868 The Meiji Emperor announced the official return of the imperial power and was declared a divine ruler
 
1873 1873: Japan grants religious freedom and adopts the Gregorian calendar 
 
1895 The Japanese conquer Taiwan
1910 Japan conquers Korea
1914 1914 - 1918 World War I - Japan declared war on Germany
1931 Japanese conquer Manchuria
1936 Japanese sign a anti-communist pact with Germany and Italy
1940 Japan entered World War II by occupying the northern part of French Indochina
1941 7 December: Japanese attacked the United States at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii
1944 18 July: The government headed by Prime Minister Tojo collapsed
1945 August: The United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
2 September 1945 Japan officially surrendered and World War II ended.


Timeline of Ancient Japan

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