Perry Expedition to Japan
1853–1854 · Event
US Black Ships force Japan to end sakoku and open to foreign trade.
On these timelines: Japan, Master, The Meiji Restoration
More from Japan
- Edo period (1603)
- Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543)
- Battle of Sekigahara (1600)
- VJ Day / surrender of Japan (1945)
- Kamakura shogunate established (1192)
- Oda Nobunaga (1534)
- Toyotomi Hideyoshi unifies Japan (1590)
- Constitution of Japan (1947)
Around 1853
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- American Civil War (1861)
- Indian Rebellion of 1857 (1857)
- Great Famine of Ireland (1845)
- Crimean War (1853)
- Italian unification (Risorgimento) (1859)
- Revolutions of 1848 (1848)
- On the Origin of Species (1859)
- Pasteur develops germ theory of disease (1861)
- Presidency of Abraham Lincoln (1861)