Japan under Shoguns Timeline

By BigBob26
  • 700

    First Capital of Japan in the city of Nara

  • 1185

    The Minamoto clan seizes power from the emperor

  • 1274

    The Mongolos launch a attack on the Japan empior

  • 1467

    Civil war that lasted 100 years called the Warring

  • William Adam becomes first Englishman to visit Japan

  • Tokugawa Ieyasu becomes shogun

  • Tokugawa introduces a policy for no Japanese people to leave the country

  • Commodore Matthew Perry US naval officer goes to Japan and tells them to open borders to trade

  • The convention of Kanagawa ends the policy Japan opens up trade with the United States.

  • The last shogun, Tokugawa Yoshinobu, steps down and hands power back to the imperial family under Emperor Meiji.