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Monday, June 21, 2021

Basic timeline of Japan

This post is a basic timeline of Japan. There are 42 events listed below chronologically. Source: Wikipedia

• First humans (30,000 years ago)
• Jomon period (14,000 - 300 BC)
• Yayoi period (300 BC - 300 AD)
• Kofun period (250-538 AD)
• Asuka period (538-719 AD)
• Nara period (710-794 AD)
• Imperial House of Japan (660 BC - now)
• Heian period (794-1185 AD)
• Genpei War (1180-1185)
• Kamakura shogunate (1192-1333)
• Mongol invasions (13th century)
• Muromachi period (1336-1573)
• Sengoku period (1467-1615)
• Portugal arrives (1543)
• Nanban trade (1543-1614)
• Azuchi-Momoyama period (1568-1600)
• Invasion of Korea (1592-1598)
• Edo period (1600-1868)
• Invasion of Ryukyu (1609)
• Boshin War (1868-1869)
• Perry Expedition by United States (1853-1854)
• Meiji Restoration (1868)
• Meiji period (1868-1912)
• Donghak Peasant Revolution (1894-1895)
• First Sino-Japanese War (1894-1895)
• Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905)
• Korea is annexed to Japan (1910)
• Taisho period (1912-1926)
• Showa period (1926-1989)
• Invasion of Manchuria, China (1931-1932)
• Attempted coup d'état (1936)
• Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945)
• Nanjing Massacre (1937-1938)
• Attack on Pearl Harbor (1941)
• Hiroshima and Nagasaki nuclear attacks (1945)
• Allied occupation of Japan (1945-1952)
• Constitution of Japan (1947)
• Korean War (1950-1953)
• Japanese asset bubble (1986-1989)
• Heisei period (1989-2019)
• Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster (2011)
• Reiwa period (2019 - now)