Historical events during Edo period

  • Tokugawa Ieyasu was given the title of Shogun

    In 1603 Tokugawa Ieyasu is given the title of Shogun
  • Ieyasu makes his son Hidetada take his place as Shogun

    Hidetada is made Shogun and Ieyasu becomes a retired shogun
  • Shogun's retainers and residents of Tokugawa land are ordered to forswear Christianity

  • Tokugawa Ieyasu defeats Toyotomi clan in battle

  • Foreign trade to Hirado and Nagasaki is restricted

  • Ieyasu's granddaughter is made an imperial consort

  • Japanese people banned from leaving and banned from re-entering

  • The Shimabara Rebellion

    unhappy peasants and catholic samurai rebel against bakufu, Dutch ships are called in to bombard them ending the Christian movement
  • Haruno makes the first full colour Nishiki-e prints

  • Naval commander Commodore Matthew C. Perry demands trade for the U.S. with Japan