Meiji Restoration of imperial rule
1868 · Event
End of the shogunate; Emperor Meiji restored as head of state, kickstarting rapid modernisation.
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Around 1868
- Meiji Restoration (1868)
- German unification (1871)
- On the Origin of Species (1859)
- American Civil War (1861)
- Pasteur develops germ theory of disease (1861)
- Joseph Stalin (1878)
- Presidency of Abraham Lincoln (1861)
- Vladimir Lenin (1870)
- Founding of the German Empire (1871)
- British Raj (1858)