japan time line

By Zach Foreman
  • 8

    The sakoku period begins

    This period is when Japan went under lock down and did not let anyone go in or out of the country.
  • 710

    The first capital is established at Nara

    This was the first ever capital that japan had.
  • 794

    Start of the Heian period

    The Heian period is the last division of classical Japanese history running from 794 to 118.
  • 1185

    Minamoto no Yoritomo becomes the first shogun of japan

    Minamoto no Yoritomo was the founder and the first shogun of the Kamakura shogunate of Japan.
  • 1467

    Beginning of the waring states period

    The Warring States period was an era in ancient Chinese history characterised by warfare.
  • 1543

    First contact between Japanese and europeans being trade.

    The cargo of the first Portuguese ships upon docking in Japan were basically cargo coming from China.
  • 1573

    The Azuchi-Momoyama period begins

    The Azuchi–Momoyama period is the final phase of the Sengoku period.

  • The beginning of the Tokugawa shogunate

    Beginning in 1568, Japan's Three Reunifies0Oda Nobunaga, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and Tokugawa Ieyasu-worked to bring the warring daimyo back under central control.

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

    Matthew Calbraith Perry (April 10, 1794 – March 4, 1858) was a Commodore of the United States Navy who commanded ships in several wars.