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British smuggle opium into china
British smuggle illeagal drug opium into china because china had a canton system that restricts trade from other foreign countries. -
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First Opium War
Pium war was over trade and diplomatic relations between china and the British Empire. The british faced trade imbalance since the canton system and that china investegated opium production from the british. -
Matthew C Perry's fleet opens japan-american trade routes
Matthew C Perry, commandor had gotten a treaty to open trade routes with Japan to america on march 31 1853 -
Capital renamed to Tokyo
In 1868 the shogunate came to an end and the city Edo was renamed to Tokyo -
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Rebels over throw shogun
Known as the Satsuma rebellion, it was a revolt between rebels and shoguns that hapopens between 1-29-1877 and 9-24-1877 that was the worse upraising against the new Gov. -
Box Rebellion
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russo-japanese war
Japan Attacks russian ships -
Japan defeats Russia
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Japan Annexes Korea
