Edo period
1603–1868 · Event
Tokugawa-shogunate era of internal peace, sakoku isolation, urban culture (kabuki, ukiyo-e, haiku) and stable hierarchy until the Meiji Restoration.
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- Meiji Restoration (1868)
- 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)
- Toyotomi Hideyoshi unifies Japan (1590)
Around 1603
- English Civil War (1642)
- William Shakespeare (1564)
- Thirty Years' War (1618)
- Qing dynasty (1644)
- Peace of Westphalia (1648)
- Reign of Elizabeth I (1558)
- Shakespeare's Hamlet (1601)
- Reign of Louis XIV (the Sun King) (1643)
- Taj Mahal built (1632)
- British East India Company chartered (1600)