Japan
Explore Japan on Ever-When, an interactive timeline of history from the Big Bang to the present day.
Key events on this timeline
- 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)
- Toyotomi Hideyoshi unifies Japan (1590)
- Atomic bombing of Hiroshima (1945)
- Constitution of Japan (1947)
- Meiji era (1868)
- Sengoku period (1467)
- Allied occupation of Japan (1945)
- Muromachi shogunate (Ashikaga) (1336)
- Russo-Japanese War (1904)
- Buddhism transmitted to Japan (538)
- Second Sino-Japanese War (1937)
- Japanese economic miracle (1955)
- Kamakura shogunate (1185)
- Attack on Pearl Harbor (1941)
- Taika Reforms (645)
- Toyotomi Hideyoshi (1537)
- Mongol invasions of Japan (1274)
- Sakoku (closed country policy) (1639)
- Heian period (794)
- Hirohito (Emperor Shōwa) (1901)
- Nara period (710)
- Emperor Meiji (1852)
- Atomic bombing of Nagasaki (1945)