Imperial Japan

By Kinzie hinson

  • 1800

    1800
    history of japan 1800 Tokugawa shogunate had ruled the Japanese islands for two hundred years.

  • 1853

    1853
    The rebels seized Nanjing, the second largest city of the empire, and massacred 25,000 men, women, and children</a>

  • 1863

    1863
    the Sat-Cho alliance forced the shogun to promise to end relations with the West.

  • 1868

    1868
    The Sat-Cho leaders demanded that the shogun resign and restore the power of the emperor. Their Armies attacked the shogun’s palace in Kyoto and proclaimed that the authority of the emperor had been restored.

  • 1889

    1889
    the Tokyo School of Fine Arts was established to promote traditional Japanese art. Japanese artists searched for a new but truly Japanese means of expression.

  • 1904

    1904
    Japan launched a sur- prise attack on the Russian naval base at Port Arthur, which Russia had taken from China in 1898

  • 1905

    1905
    Sun Yat-sen forms Revolutionary Alliance in China

  • 1907

    1907
    President Theodore Roosevelt made a “gentlemen’s agreement” with Japan that essentially stopped Japanese immigration to the United States.

  • 1910

    1910
    Japan defeats Russia.