Timeline/Sano Ichiro series

== History ==
Era 	Date 	Event(s)
Kan'ei 	 	Hachiya Akira is born.
Kan'ei 	Before	Kumazawa Hiroyuki is born to Lord and Lady Kumazawa.
Kan'ei 	 	Kumazawa Etsuko is born to Lord and Lady Kumazawa.
Hana is born.
Meireki 	 	The Great Fire of Meireki destroys most of Edo.
Meireki 	 	Lord and Lady Kumazawa force Etsuko to marry a rōnin named Sano Shutarō. Lord Kumazawa disowns Etsuko, forbiding his family from contacting her and any of her offspring.
Manji 	 	Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu is born to Lord and Lady Yanagisawa.
Manji 	Before	Yamaga is born.
Manji 	 	Hayashi is born.
Sano Ichirō is born to Sano Shutarō and Sano Etsuko.
Kanbun 	 	Niu Masahito is born to Lord Niu Masamune and Lady Niu.
Kumazawa Chiyo is born to Major Kumazawa Hiroyuki and Lady Kumazawa Yasuko.
Kanbun 	 	Hirata is born.
Kanbun 	 	Ueda Reiko is born to Magistrate and Lady Ueda.
Kanbun 	 	Harume is born to Jimbei and Blue Apple.
Kanbun 	 	Hamada Tsunehiko is born to Lord and Lady Hamada.
Enpō 	 	Niu Midori is born to Lord Niu Masamune and one of his concubines.
TennaWhile the era name given in The Dragon King's Palace is Tenwa, Tenna is the more widely used translation (天和 can be read as both Tenna and Tenwa). 	 	The Dragon King's parents are on a lake when the father pushes his wife off of their boat. He lets her drown before committing seppuku.
Jokyo 	 	Shogun Tokugawa Tsunayoshi issues the first of the Dog Protection Edicts. He informs Magistrate Ogyu Banzan in person that the edicts are to be rigidly enforced. Failure to do so may result in demotion or execution.
An oil merchant is charged with killing a dog, an act that goes against the Dog Protection Edicts. The son of the merchant goes to Magistrate Ogyu, the judge charged with overseeing his father's trail. The son offers to pay 300 koban in exchange for his father's acquittal. Magistrate Ogyu takes the money. The next day, he pronounces the merchant not guilty. He then uses the money to build himself a summer villa.
Genroku 	 	After a visit with Lord Niu Masamune, Magistrate Ogyu Banzan is about to leave when he is sidelined by Lady Niu. They exchange pleasentries before Lady Niu makes a remark that subtly notifies the magistrate that she has heard about the bribe he took from the merchant's son. This knowledge places Magistrate Ogyu under Lady Niu's power.
Genroku 	 	Katsurawa Shundai manages to get Sano Ichiro a position as a yoriki.
== Story ==
Era 	Era 	
Genroku 	Genroku 	
Date 	Event(s) 	
Year 1, Month 12 	15th - Eii takes the corpses of Noriyoshi and Niu Yukiko to the Sumida River. He arranges the bodies to look as though they commited shinju together. 	
Year 1, Month 12 	16th - Sano investigates his first murder case as a Yoriki. 	
Year 2, Month 1 	Sano moves into Edo Castle. 	
Year 2, Month 3 	Sano investigates the Bundori murders. During his investigation, he meets Hirata. 	
Year 3, Month 5 	Sano investigates the murder of the Dutch trader, Jan Spaen. 	
Year 3, Month 9 	Sano investigates the murder of Harume. 	
Year 4, Month 6 	Sano investigates the murder of Left Minister Konoe. 	
Year 5, Month 2 	Sano Masahiro is born to Sano Ichiro and Sano Reiko. 	
Year 6, Month 8 	Sano investigates an arson case at the Black Lotus temple. 	
Year 6, Month 11 	Sano investigates the murder of Matsudaira Mitsuyoshi.' 	
Year 7, Month 5 	Sano Reiko, Hirata Midori, Lady Yanagisawa, and Lady Keisho-in are kidnapped and held hostage. Sano has to figure out where they are. 	
Year 7, Month 10 	Sano investigates the murder of Elder Makino Narisada. 	
Year 8 	Kumazawa Chiyo marries Captain Okubo. 	
Year 8, Month 4 	Sano tries to find and capture The Ghost, a silent assassin with a deadly touch. 	
Year 11, Month 6 	Sano investigates the murder of Lord Mori in order to acquit Reiko. 	
Year 11, Month 10 	Sano Akiko is born to Sano Ichiro and Sano Reiko. 	
Year 12, Month 9 	Tekare is killed.
Masahiro is kidnapped by a couple of Lord Matsudaira's hechman. 	
Year 12, Month 10 	Sano and Reiko go to Ezogashima in order to get back Masahiro. 	
Year 13, Month 2 	Tsunayoshi Tadatoshi's skeleton is unearthed after a storm topples a large tree. Sano is tasked with finding the killer. 	
Year 14, Month 5 	Sano investigates an assault on Okubo Chiyo. 	
Year 15, Month 12 	Sano and many other high-ranking members of the bakufu are tasked with the complicated case of the 47 ronin. 	
Year 16, Month 11, Day 23	A massive earthquake destroys most of Edo and kills hundreds of thousands of people. In the aftermath, Sano investigates the murder of three woman found in a collapsed house.	
Hōei 	Hōei 	Hōei
Year 1, Month 4 	Sano investigates the murder of Togukawa Tsuruhime. 	
Year 4, Month 11 	Mount Fuji errupts, spreading volcanic ash and rock in the Izu, Kai, Sagami, and Musashi provinces. It even manages to reach Edo. 	
Year 6, Month 1, Day 10 	Shogun Tokugawa Tsunayoshi is gravely wounded after being stabbed during the night. Sano is tasked with finding his attacker before he dies. 	
== References ==
Category:Timeline