Japan

By Muntted
  • 710

    The first capital is established at Nara

  • 794

    Start of the Heian period

  • 1185

    Minamoto no Yoritomo becomes the first shogun of Japan

  • 1467

    Beginning of the Warring states period

  • 1543

    First contact between Japanese and Europeans and beginning of trade

  • 1573

    The Azuchi-Momoyama period begins

  • The beginning of the Tokugawa shogunate

  • The sakoku (“locked country”) period begins

  • The arrival of the United States navy fleet commanded by Matthew Perry

  • The Meiji Restoration