Timeline of Japan

Here follows a Timeline for events in Japan's long history,

BC
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* 660BC – 11th February. Emperor Jimmu comes to the throne.
* 581BC – Emperor Jimmu dies. Emperor Suizei comes to the throne.
* 549BC – Emperor Suizei dies.
* 98BC – Emperor Sujin comes to the throne.
* 29BC – Emperor Sujin dies. Emperor Suinin comes to the throne.

## 0AD

* 71AD – Emperor Suinin dies. Emperor Keiko comes to the throne.

## 100AD

* 131AD – Emperor Keiko dies. Emperor Seimu comes to the throne.
* 179AD –Emperor Seimu makes Emperor Chuai Crown-Prince.
* 192AD – Emperor Siemu dies. Emperor Chuai comes to the throne.

## 200AD

* 270AD – Emperor Chuai dies. Emperor Ojin comes to the throne.

## 300AD

* 313AD – Emperor Ojin dies. Emperor Nintoku comes to the throne.

## 400AD

* 400AD – Emperor Nintoku dies. Emperor Richu comes to the throne.
* 404AD – Emperor Nintoku appoints Local Recorders to the Provinces and establishes the Treasury.
* 406AD – Emperor Richu dies. Emperor Hanzei comes to the throne.
* 412AD – Emperor Hanzei dies. Emperor Ingyo comes to the throne.
* 453AD – Emperor Ingyo dies. Emperor Anko comes to the throne.
* 456AD – Emperor Anko is murdered. Emperor Yuryaku comes to the throne.
* 479AD – Emperor Yuryaku dies. Emperor Seinei comes to the throne.
* 485AD – Emperor Seinei dies. Emperor Kenzo comes to the throne.
* 488AD – Emperor Kenzo dies. Emperor Ninken comes to the throne.
* 498AD – Emperor Ninken dies. Emperor Buretsu comes to the throne.

## 500AD

* 507AD – Emperor Buretsu dies. Emperor Keitai comes to the throne.
* 531AD – Emperor Ankan comes to the throne
* 536AD – Emperor Ankan dies aged 70. Emperor Senka comes to the throne.
* 539AD – Emperor Senka dies. Emperor Kimmei is born.
* 553AD - First mention of calender makers.
* 571AD – Emperor Kimmei dies.
* 572AD - Emperor Bidatsu comes to the throne.
* 585AD – Emperor Bidatsu dies aged 47. Emperor Yomei comes to the throne.
* 587AD – Emperor Yomei dies. Emperor Sushun comes to the throne.
* 592AD – Emperor Sushun dies.
* 593AD – Empress Suiko comes to the throne.

## 600AD

* 620AD – Kujiki is completed.
* 621AD – Shotoku Taisha dies aged 49.
* 626AD – Soga no Umako dies.
* 628AD – Empress Suiko dies.
* 629AD – Emperor Jomei comes to the throne.
* 641AD – Emperor Jomei dies.
* 642AD – Empress Kogyoku comes to the throne.
* 645AD – Empress Kogyoku abdicates. Soga Clan is destroyed.
* 668AD – Emperor Tenji comes to the throne.
* 671AD – Emperor Tenji dies.
* 682AD – Emperor Tenmu commissions `history of the Emperors and of matters of high antiquity.`

## 700AD

* 712AD – The Kojiki is completed.
* 720AD – The Nihongi is completed.

## 1200AD

* 1282AD - Ōnakatomi Sadayo writes a copy of the Kojiki.

## 1300AD

* 1371AD - Ken'yuu writes the oldest surviving copy of the Kojiki.

## 1600AD

* 1683AD - The Shin Otogi Bōko is written.

## 1700AD

* 1712AD - The Yōkai artist Toriyama Sekien is born and the Wakan Sansai Zue is published.
* 1721AD - The poet Maki Tōei is born.
* 1735AD - The artist Utagawa Toyoharu is born.
* 1738 - The Hyakkai Zukan is published.
* 1753AD - The artist Kitagawa Utamaro is born.
* 1773AD - The Toriyamabiko is published.
* 1776AD - The Gazu Hyakki Yagyō is published.
* 1779AD - The Konjaku Gazu Zoku Hyakki is published.
* 1781AD - The Konjaku Hyakki Shūi is published.
* 1783AD - The poet Maki Tōei dies.
* 1784AD - The Hyakki Tsurezure Bukuro is published.
* 1788AD - The Yokai artist Toriyama Sekien dies.

## 1800AD

* 1800`s – Emperor Nintoku`s tomb is explored by William Gowland.
* 1806AD - The artist Kitagawa Utamaro dies.
* 1814AD - The artist Utagawa Toyoharu dies.
* 1833AD - The Bōsō Manroku is published.

## References

1. ↑ Aston. W.G. (1896) "Nihongi Volume 1: Chronicles of Japan from the Earliest Times to AD697". Tuttle Publishing.