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Date of Birth
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Treaties
1854–55: Treaties are signed with the United States by the Bakufu -
Bakufu signed treaties
1858: The Bakufu sign treaties with the Netherlands, Imperial Russia, and Great Britain. -
Shogunate
the shogunate became under threts and forigen powers wanted to increase their influance on japan -
His father died
His father was Emperor komei -
He began to rule
Meiji was only 15 when he became Emperor Meiji -
He got married
he was 17 when he got married ( this was his first marrige) he had manny and he had 15 kids and only 5 of them made it to adult hood. -
Enlightened Rule
in 1870 the era was changed to meiji, or the "enlightened rule" -
went Visit of a foreign monarch
1881: Receives the first state visit of a foreign monarch, King Kalakaua of Hawaii. -
Date OF Deth