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Imperial Japan

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  • 1800

    1800
    Tokugawa Shogunthe Tokugawa shogunate had ruled the Japanese islands by 200 years

  • 1853

    1853
    Commodore PerryCommodore Perry arrives in Japan

  • 1858

    1858
    Townsend HarrisU.S. consul Townsend Harris signed a more detailed treaty.

  • 1863

    1863
    the Sat-Cho alliance forced the Shogun to promise to end relations with the west

  • 1868

    1868
    the Sat-Cho armies attacked the shogun palace in Kyoto

  • 1889

    1889
    The Meiji constitution was adopted

  • 1904

    1904
    Japan launched a surprise attack on the Russian Nava Base

  • 1905

    1905
    Russians agreed to a humiliating peace

  • 1907

    1907
    President Theodore Roosevelt made a gentlemens agreement with Japan

  • 1910

    1910
    Japan annexed Korea outright