Chronological dates

HIST 87 Chronological dates which mare or may not be in chronological order

Introduction of Buddhism to Japan via Paekche Kingdom (Korean Peninsula)

552

Taika Reform (“Taika” = Great Change) establishes ritsuryō system

646

Taihō Code establishes the theoretical basis for government under ritsuryō system

701

Capital established in Heian-kyō (present-day Kyoto)

784

Regency Period of the Heian era begins

967

Sei Shōnagon completes The Pillow Book

996

Fujiwara no Michinaga appointed as Regent (highpoint of Fujiwara power)

1017

Regency Period ends

1068

Meiji Restoration establishes modern state

1868

Japan colonizes Hokkaidō

1869

Japan annexes Lūchū Kingdom (Okinawa)

1879

Japan colonizes Taiwan; gains right of extraterritoriality in China and ability to establish factories on Chinese soil

1895

Japan gains railway concession in southern Manchuria (NE China) and South Saghalien Island (Jp. Karafuto)

1905

Japan colonizes Korea

1910

Japan claims Germany colony in Micronesia

1914

Japanese people constitute largest foreign community in Shanghai (~10,000 people).

1920

Universal Suffrage Act grants suffrage to all men who are at least age 25 and reside in the inner territories of Japan.

1925

May 30th Movement breaks out in China; major strikes and uprisings against foreign-owned cotton mills in Shanghai

1925

Japanese in Shanghai number around 30,000 people

1930