The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1904-05-07
JAPAN's CHRONOLOGY.
Wonderful Advance After q Sleep OF
Two Centuries.

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Two Centuries.
The following chronology Of Jar
advance during the last two cent,
Is from the New York Times:
Beginning of the Tokugawa line of
Shotgun. Iyeyasu makes Yeddo
his capital .......
Edict against the Christians by
Iyeyasu ................
Persecution begins ...............
VIII Adams. an English pilot, lands
at Bungo. April 10. 1000; dies.
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-
Rising of Shimabara. Christians
hurled from Popemberg .......
Arrival of Commodore Perry in the
bay of Yeddo, July S...........
Treaty with the United States
signed. March 81.
Townsend Harris concludes
treaty of foreign residence. $50.
Yokohama, Nagasaki and Hako-
date open to trade, July 1.....
First embassy to the United States.
bUhuaiy
The regent, I'll Hamon no Kami,
assassinated, March 3. ........
Mr.. Heusken. interpreter United
States legation, assassinated. -.
Attack on the legation, July 5.....
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
kiusiu ................
The United States corvet Wyoming
engages the two men-of-war, July
Two French war steamers soon af-
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-0f-
war, Sept. and @. ........,
Japan forced to pay an indemnity
the Simonoseki indemnity-of
100000 In all, which is after
ward reduced to one-half. ....
Major Baldwin and Lieut.. Bird
murdered at Kamakura...... 900.
Attack on the guard of Sir II.
Parks while going to an audi
ence with the Mikado, March q
Mutsuhito at sixteen years Of age
succeeds his father as one hun
dred and twenty first Tor one hun
bred and twenty-third) Mikado.
Feb. 3 NATURALIZATION. 49,.
Hiogo, Osaka and Yeddo opened,
Jan. /
The Mikado restored to full power,
Jan. = .................
An officer and ten French sailors
murdered at Sakai, near Osaka.
by a detachment Of Tosa troops.
Battle of Fushimi, Jan. %. 49,.
Battle OF Ueno, July 4. ..........
First year of Meiji enlightened
rule), Nov. 6...................
The Mikado removes to Yeddo,
which changes its name to Toxic
and Is made capital OF the EN-
pire, Nov. 26. .................
Hakodate taken; war ended June b
Abolition Of the feudal system; the
daimios relegated to private life
and retired on pensions Of one
tenth OF their former revenue.
July ..............
First appearance OF newspapers.
Embassy representing the national
government makes the circuit Of
the world ................. 1877
First railway In Japan opened Oct.
Ii ....... ''.'' $50
Attempted assassination of Iva
kura Jan. ID.
Adoption Of the Gregorian caIen-
uNr ....'.. '''''
Officials obliged to wear European
dress when on duty. ...........
War against Formosa, May. ....
Exchange Of Saghalien for Kurile
(Chishima) islands .............
Revocation of the edicts against
Christianity ................
Treaty between japan and Korea,
Feb. n .................
Beginning Of the southern rebellion
at Kumamoto, Oct. "A. ........
End Of the southern rebellion and
death of Saigo Tagamori.
Okubo assassinated May 14.......
National exhibition In Toxic opened
March IL ................ .....
Rescript promising the opening OF
parliament in 1890, Oct ID. -.
The United States returns the Shi'
monoseki indemnity ...........
Rehabilitation Of old nobility July D
Onicial priesthood abolished Aug.
IL ...... .'.''''.
japanese troops In Seoul attacked
by Chinese and Koreans. .......
The constitutions granted by the
EmDeror promulgated Feb. IL. :.