Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1904-05-21
JAPAN's CHRONOLOGY.
Wonderful Advance After Sleep of
Two Centuries.

advance during the last two centur
Is from the New York Times:
Beginning Of the Tokugawa line of
Shotgun Iyeyasu makes Yeddo
his capital 4,
Edict against the Christians by
lyeyaSu L
Persecution begins ............ i
Will Adams, an English pilot, lands
at Bungo, April 10, 1900; dies. i
All foreigners, except Dutch and
Chinese, banished and the Jap
anese forbidden to leave the
country ................. /
A several years massacre of Chris
tians begins. The Dutch factory
removed from Firando to Da-
shlma ...............
Rising of >Shimabara. Christians
hurled from Popemberg ........ l
Arrival of Commodore Perry in the
bay of Yeddo, July S....... 1
Treaty with the United States
signed, March 81. ............ l
Townsend Harris concludes
treaty of foreign residence. $3.50. !
Yokohama, Nagasaki and Hako-
date open to trade, July 1......
First embassy to the United States.
January .................
The regent, III Hamon no Kami,
assassinated, March 3. ......
Mr.. Heusken, interpreter United
States legation, assassinated. -.
Attack on the legation, July 3. Sc.
First embassy to Europe.
English attacked near Yokohama
and one killed by the followers
of Shimadzu Saburo, father OF
the daimio of Satsuma; 100000
paid by the government. ......
An American steamer and French
and Dutch corvet fired upon by
two men-of-war Of the Prince OF
hiuslu
The United States corvet Wyoming
engages the two men-of-war, July
Two French war steamers soon ar
ter destroy battery .........
Bombardment of Kagoshima by the
English, August ............
American and English legations
burned ............
Simonoseki bombardment by nine
English, three French, four
Dutch and one American men-of-
war, Sept. 3 and 6............
Japan forced to pay an indemnity
the Simonoseki indemnity-of
$3,000,O00 in all, which is after
ward reduced to one-half. ......
Major Baldwin and Lieut.. Bird
murdered at Kamakura. ......
Attack on the guard of Sir II.
Parks while going to an audi
ence with the Mikado, March %
Mutsuhito at sixteen years of age
succeeds his father as one hum
bred and twenty-frst Tor one hun
dred and twentythird) Mikado,
Feb.
Hiogo, Osaka and Yeddo opened,
, Jan.
, The Mikado restored to full power,
Jan. Observation-Disclosures.
An officer and ten French sailors
murdered at Sakai, near Osaka,
by detachment of Tosa troops
: Battle of Fushimi, Jan. 2S.......
Battle of Ueno, July 4...........
J First year of Meiji enlightened
rule). Nov. 6.
The Mikado removes to Yeddo.
which changes it's name to Toxic
and is made capital of the en-
pire, Nov. %. .................
Hakodate taken; war ended June
Abolition Of the feudal system; the
D daimios relegated to private life
and retired on pensions of one
I tenth OF their former revenue,
: July ........-.. ..........
q First appearance of newspapers. :.
:, Embassy representing the national
| fhn air0nlf of
the world . 10
5 First railway in Japan opened Oct.
lO
v Attempted assassination of Iva
/ kura Jan. Ia.
Adoption of the Gregorian calen-
c dar .......
. Officials obliged to wear European
dress when on duty.
War against Formosa, May.
o Exchange of Saghalien for Kurile
y (Chishima) islands .............
70 Revocation of the edicts against
e Christianity
Treaty between Japan and Korea,
"a Feb. u ..
Beginning of the southern rebellion
= at Kumamoto, Oct. "a. ......-..
n End of the southern rebellion ana
IT. death of Saigo Tagamori. 49,.
Okubo assassinated May H..
t, National exhibition in Toxic opened
n March IL 49,. $500. .''' .
II Rescript promising the opening OF
% parliament in 1890, Oct. IA. -
The United States returns the Shi-
~ monoseki indemnity .........-.
"a Rehabilitation of old nobility July !
Oficial priesthood abolished Aug
III IL SO = .
IS Japanese troops in Seoul attacked
IN by Chinese and Koreans.
The constitutions granted by the
n Emperor promulgated Feb. H.. -
First imperial diet meets November
International exhibition in Toxic.