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Takayoshi Kido
Takayoshi Kido leads the Samurai of humble origins and they win the civil war in Choshu. -
Secret alliance
Takamori Saigo of Satsuma and Takayoshi Kido of Choshu form a secret alliance in Kyoto. -
Keiki Tokugawa ascends to the shogunate
Keiki Tokugawa/ Yoshinobu ascends to the shogunate in Kyoto. -
Tokugawa Yoshinobu
He helped make the Meiji Restoration (overthrow of the shogunate and restoration of power to the emperor) relatively peaceful. -
Ōkubo Toshimichi
One of the samurai leaders who overthrew the Tokugawa family in 1868. -
Saigō Takamori
Given command of the newly created Imperial Guard, consisting of ~10,000 troops. -
Aritomo Yamagata becomes army minister
Aritomo Yamagata becomes army minister. -
Revolt! by the Samurai
Saigo led a samurai revolt against the emperor who forbode them to carry swords, but they were defeated by the regular army and Saigo was killed. -
Nintendo Founded
Nintendo is founded by Fusajiro Yamauchi. -
Kim-Ok Kyun killed
Sino-Jap war Pro-Japanese Korean leader of the 1884 coup was lured to Shanghai and killed. His body was put on a Chinese warship and sent back to Korea as a warning to other rebels.