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1800
the Tokugawa shogunate had ruled the Japanese islands for two hun- dred years. -
1853
An American fleet of four warships under Commondore Matthew Perry arrived in Edo Bay. -
1858
U.S. consul Townsend Harris signed a more detailed treaty. It called for the opening of several new ports to U.S. trade and residence, as well as an exchange of ministers -
1863
The Sat-Cho alliance forced the shogun to promise to end rekations with the West. -
1868
Their armies attacked the shogun's palace in Kyoto and proclamied that the authority of the emperor had been restored. -
1889
Meiji constitution adopted in 1889 was midled after that Imperal Germany. -
1904
Japan launched a surprise attack on the Russian naval base at Port Arthur, which Russia had taken from China in 1898. -
1905
After the defeat Russians agreed to a humiliating peace. -
1907
President Theodore Roosevelt made a "gentlemen's agreement" with Japan that essentially stopped Japanese immigration to the United States. -
1910
Japan annexed Korea outright.
