Perry's black ships arrive in Edo Bay
1853 · Event
US Commodore Matthew Perry forces Japan to open to foreign trade.
On these timelines: Japan, Master, USA
More from Japan
- Meiji Restoration (1868)
- Edo period (1603)
- Commodore Perry opens Japan (1853)
- Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543)
- Battle of Sekigahara (1600)
- VJ Day / surrender of Japan (1945)
- Kamakura shogunate established (1192)
- Oda Nobunaga (1534)
Around 1853
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- On the Origin of Species (1859)
- Pasteur develops germ theory of disease (1861)
- American Civil War (1861)
- Presidency of Abraham Lincoln (1861)
- Communist Manifesto (1848)
- British Raj (1858)
- First public demonstration of surgical anaesthesia (1846)
- Italian unification (Risorgimento) (1859)
- Italian unification (Risorgimento) begins (1859)