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1800
- By 1800, the Tokugawa shogunare had ruled the Japanese islands for two hundred years.
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjovMjPU9ug -
1853
- In the summer of 1853, an American fleet of four warships under Commodore Matthew Perry arrived in Edo Bay.
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEu1yfJ68dk -
1858
- In 1858, U.S. consul Townsend Harris signed a more detailed treaty.
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTb3MQWmWEw -
1868
- In 1868, their armies attacked the shogun's palace in Kyoto and proclaimed that the authority of the emperor had been restored.
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKCMaoP3BHo -
1863
- In 1863, the Sat-Cho alliance forced the shogun to promise to end relations with the West.
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBw6jNyzC9U -
1889
- The Meiji constitution, adopted in 1889, was modeled after that of imperial Germany.
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hws5EHcpLAw -
1904
- In 1904, Japan launched a surprise attack on the Russian naval base at Port Arthur.
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ySI2H3Y9Qc -
1905
- After their defeat Russia agreed to a humiliating peace in 1905. In 1905, the United States recognized Japan's role in Korea in return for Japanese recognition of American authority in the Phillipines.
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uc3IrJwG7o -
1907
- In 1907, President Theodore Roosevelt made a gentlemen's agreement with Japan that essentially stopped Japanese immigration to the United States.
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwdCmgPVDdo -
1910
- In 1910, Japan annexed Korea outright.
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xWot6Ld5Gk