Great Hanshin earthquake
1995 · Event
Magnitude 6.9 quake hits Kobe; ~6,400 killed; exposes weaknesses in Japanese disaster response.
On these timelines: Japan, Master
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 1995
- (Everything I Do) I Do It for You (Bryan Adams) (1991)
- Invention of the World Wide Web (1989)
- Dissolution of the Soviet Union (1991)
- September 11 attacks (2001)
- Pop music: the 2000s (2000)
- Pop music: the 1990s (1990)
- Fall of the Berlin Wall (1989)
- Reunification of Germany (1990)
- I Will Always Love You (Whitney Houston) (1992)
- Love Is All Around (Wet Wet Wet) (1994)