Hirohito (Emperor Shōwa)
1901–1989 · Person
Reigned 1926-1989, longest of any Japanese emperor; presided over imperial expansion, WWII defeat, post-war recovery.
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- Meiji Restoration (1868)
- Edo period (1603)
- Commodore Perry opens Japan (1853)
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- Battle of Sekigahara (1600)
- VJ Day / surrender of Japan (1945)
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Around 1901
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- Xinhai Revolution (1911)
- Japanese annexation of Korea (1910)
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- Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907)