Imperial Japan

By jabrela

  • 1800

    1800
    Europeans had been in contact with china for more than 200 years

  • 1853

    1853
    Rebels seized nanking the second largest city of the empire and massacred 25,000 men, women, and children

  • 1858

    1858
    Chinese agreed to legalize the opium trade and open new ports to foreign trade.

  • 1863

    1863
    Europeans had been in contact with china for more than two hundred years

  • 1868

    1868
    their armies attacked the shogun’s palace in Kyoto and proclaimed that the authority of the emperor had been restored

  • 1889

    1889
    Traditional values were also given a firm legal basis which limited the right to vote to men.

  • 1904

    1904
    Japan launched a surprise 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 annexed Korea outright.