Imperial Japan Timeline

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  • 1800

    1800
    The Qing dynasty of the Manchus was at the height of its power . Over a century later , the Qing Dynasty collapsed .

  • 1853

    1853
    The rebels seized Najing and massacred 25,000 men , women , and children . For 10 more years the revolt continued .

  • 1858

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

  • 1863

    1863
    Sat-Cho alliance forced the shogun to promise to end relations with the West .

  • 1868

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

  • 1889

    1889
    The country was divided into 74 prefectures . In 1889 it was dropped to 45 and still remains 45 today .

  • 1904

    1904
    Ba Jin was born in 1904 . Ba Jin was was well attuned to the rigors and expected obedience of Chinese family life .

  • 1905

    1905
    At the convention in Tokyo , in 1905 , Sun united radical groups from across China and formed the Revolutionary Alliance , which became the Nationalist Party .

  • 1907

    1907
    In 1907 , president Theodore Roosevelt made a gentlemen's agreement with Japan that stoppped Japanese immigration to the United States .

  • 1910

    1910
    The elections for a national assembly were even help in 1910 . Japan defested Russia . Japan annexed Korea outright .