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Jan 1, 1000
First Japenese novels appear
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Jan 1, 1160
the start of japan's Medieval Period
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Jan 1, 1185
Zen buddhism introduction Japan
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Jan 1, 1281
Japan drives back mongol invasion
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Jan 1, 1336
japan has its first contact with europe
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Jan 1, 1549
Christian missionaries arrived in japan
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Japan Bans foreigners and access to foreign goods and literature
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Anti-Christian decreses were proclaimed
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Missionaries expelled from japan
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Commodore Mathew Perry (Us) arrives in Japan, beginning the end of Japan's isolation from the rest of the world.
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Prince Mutsuhito becomes emperor
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The Meiji Constitution is established as the law of government in japan
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Kammu makes heian his capital and heian period begins