Ryukyu Kingdom
1429–1879* · Event
An independent maritime trading kingdom in Okinawa, later absorbed by Japan; a distinct culture between China and Japan.
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 1429
- Leonardo da Vinci (1452)
- Fall of Constantinople (1453)
- Michelangelo (1475)
- Gutenberg's printing press (1440)
- Renaissance (1400)
- Wars of the Roses (1455)
- Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (1387)
- Mehmed II (1432)
- Gutenberg prints the 42-line Bible (1455)
- Albrecht Durer (1471)