The Meiji Restoration
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Key events on this timeline
- Meiji Restoration (1868)
- Perry's black ships arrive in Edo Bay (1853)
- Perry Expedition to Japan (1853)
- Bakumatsu (1853)
- Boshin War (1868)
- Satsuma Rebellion (1877)
- Treaty of Kanagawa (1854)
- Tokugawa shogun resigns (Taisei Hokan) (1867)
- Japan signs the unequal treaties (1858)
- Charter Oath (1868)
- Abolition of the han system (1871)
- Satsuma and Choshu ally against the shogun (1866)
- Meiji Constitution (1889)
- Battle of Toba-Fushimi (1868)
- Iwakura Mission tours the West (1871)
- Edo period ends (1868)
- Assassination of Ii Naosuke (1860)
- Edo becomes Tokyo (1868)
- Britain bombards Kagoshima (1863)
- Meiji era (1868)
- Edo period (1603)