Imperial Japan

By Tiffanywalker12

  • 1800

    1800
    By 1800, Europeans had been in contact with China for more than two hundred years.

  • 1853

    1853
    Commodore Perry arrives in Japan

  • 1858

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

  • 1863

    1863
    the Sat-Cho alliance (from Satsuma-Choshu) forced the shogun to promise to end relations with the West.

  • 1868

    1868
    1868Meiji Restoration begins

  • 1889

    1889
    Japanese musicians played Western music and wore West- ern clothing.

  • 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 issues reform program

  • 1907

    1907
    President Theodore Roosevelt made a “gentlemen’s agreement”

  • 1910

    1910
    Japan annexes Korea