Imperialism Japan timeline

By Gage Boatner

  • 1800

    1800
    the Qing dynasty of the Manchus was at the height of its power

  • 1853

    1853
    rebels seized Nanjing

  • 1858

    1858
    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
    Meiji Restoration begins

  • 1889

    1889
    The country was divided into 75 prefectures and the number was reduced to 45

  • 1904

    1904
    a Jin was well attuned to the rigors and expected obedience

  • 1905

    1905
    Sun Yat-sen forms Revolutionary alliance in China

  • 1907

    1907
    Theodore Roosevelt made a “gentlemen’s agreement” with Japan

  • 1910

    1910
    Japan annexes Korea