Japan under the Shogun

• 1333: The Kamakura Shogunate is overthrown.
• 1338: The Ashikaga shogunate is established.
• 1542: Portuguese Merchants first arrive in Japan.
• 1549: Francis Xavier arrives in Japan
• 1568-1582: Reign of Oda Nobunaga
  • 1568: Oda Nobunaga controls Kyoto.
• 1582-1598: Toyotomi Hideyoshi
  • 1587: Christians in Japan are persecuted for the first time.
  • 1592: First attempt to conquer Korea.
  • 1597: Second attempt to conquer Korea
  • 1598: Hideyoshi dies.
• 1598-1616: Reign of Tokugawa Ieyasu
  • 1600: Tokugawa Ieyasu wins battle of Sekigahara.
  • 1603: The Tokugawa Shogunate is established
  • 1609: Dutch granted permission to trade at Nagasaki
  • 1612: Christian missionaries are evicted
• 1638: Christian rebellion at Shimabara is put down.
• 1640: The seclusion and exclusion edicts take effect.
• 1688-1704: Genroku era
• 1853: Commodore Perry's expedition.
• 1867: Tokugawa Shogunate overthrown; beginning of Meiji restoration

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