The Shimabara Rebellion (In Our Time)
1637 · Resource
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Christian uprising in Japan and its profound and long-term consequences. In the 1630s, Japan was ruled by the Tokugawa Shoguns, a military dynasty who, 30 years earlier, had unified the country, ending around two centuries of civil war. In 1637 a rebellion broke out in the province of Shimabara, in the south of the country.
On these timelines: In Our Time (BBC podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 1637
- Spanish Armada (1588)
- Thirty Years' War (1618)
- Age of Enlightenment (1685)
- Reign of Peter the Great (1682)
- Great Plague of London (1665)
- English Civil War (1642)
- Siege of Vienna (1683) (1683)
- Newton's Principia Mathematica (1687)
- Edo period (1603)
- Qing dynasty (1644)