The Watanabe Show Timeline and Chronology

The Watanabe Show has a large timeline and film scenes showcased in multiple episodes and movies. Which contains historical events and true stories as well as wars.

## Timeline

### Ancient History (Pre-2000s)

* **c. 30,000 BC** - Japan splits into many islands which still stands today
* **c. 14,000 BC** - The Jōmon people arrive in Japan
* **February 11, 660 BCE** - Japan's first emperor, Emperor Jimmu founded the country of Japan
* **c. 300 BCE** - Yayoi people began to move from the Korean Penninsula and driving out the remaining Jōmon people out except the ones in Hokkaido. Yayoi's are ancestors of today's Japanese/Yamato people
* **709 AD** - 'Kose no maro' rises to power and becames the first shogun. Marking the beginning of the Heian period
* **1192** - The Heian period falls, the Kamakura shogunate seize power
* **1274** - The Mongol Yuan Empire invades Japan, which the Japanese won, the kamikaze destroyed the Mongol fleet
* **1281** - The Mongol Yuan Empire invades Japan second time, the Japanese won again, the kamikaze destroyed the Mongol fleet again
* **1333** - The Kamakura shogunate falls,
* **1336** - The Ashikaga shogunate seizes power from the Kamakura

### Early Modern-Period

* **1573** - Ashikaga Yoshiaki was deposed from power
* **1588** - Ashikaga Yoshiaki abdicates, marking the end of the Ashikaga period
* **1589** - The city of Hiroshima was founded
* **May 23, 1592** - The Japanese invades Korea during the Imjin War
* **December 24, 1598** - Japanese loses the Imjin War and withdraws from Korea
* **1600** - Tokugawa Ieyasu becomes the new shogun
* **1603** - The capital of Japan, Tokyo was founded
* **1633** - The shogun announces to closure of the country from foreign trade, with the exception of Dutch traders, and it's location only in Dejima
* **1640** - The Dutch continues to trade with the shogunate and teaches them with Dutch studies, inspiring many of the shoguns to do the same resulted in advanced technology

## 1800s

* **November 3, 1852** - Emperor Meiji was born
* **1853** - Matthew Perry arrives in Japan and requests the shogun to open the country immediately
* **January 27, 1867** - Boshin War begins
* **February 13, 1867** - Emperor Meiji becomes emperor
* **January 3, 1868** - The Empire of Japan was founded with the success of the Meiji Restoration
* **June 27, 1869** - The last remains of the Tokugawa Shogunate in Hokkaido surrender and was annexed to the Imperial Government
* **January 29, 1877** - Beginning of the Seinan War, Imperial Government Victory
* **August 31, 1879** - Emperor Taisho was born
* **June 7, 1891** - Shigeru Yamazaki was born in Fukuoka
* **July 25, 1894** - First Shino-Japanese War broke out
* **December 27, 1894** - Fred Yamazaki was born in Fukuoka, Japan
* **April 17, 1895** - Japan wins the First Shino-Japanese War
* **May 29, 1895** - Japan invades Taiwan and extends influence in Korea, marking the beginning of Japanese imperialism
* **October 18, 1899** - The Boxers start a revolution attempting to drive out foreigners, Japan teams up with Eight-Nation Alliance against the uprising

## 1900s

### 1901

* **April 29** - Emperor Hirohito was born
* **September 7** - Japan wins the Boxer Rebellion

### 1903

* **January 2** - Kane Tanaka was born in Fukuoka

### 1904

* **February 8** - Japan declares war on Russia, start of the Russo-Japanese War

### 1905

* **September 5** - Japan wins the Russo-Japanese War
* **November 17** - Japan–Korea Treaty of 1905 was signed, Korea becomes a Japanese protectorate

## 1910s

### 1910

* **August 29** - Japan fully annex Korea

### 1912

* **July 30** - Emperor Meiji dead at 59, 4 months before turning 60, cause of death was uremia (1852-1912), Emperor Taisho becomes emperor

### 1913

* **November 22** - Last shogun of Japan, Tokugawa Yoshinobu dead at 76, cause of death was natural causes (1837-1913)

### 1914

* **July 28** - Beginning of WW1
* **August 23** - Japan enters and declared war on the Central Powers WW1
* **August 27** - Japan invades the German colony of Qingdao with the help of Britain

### 1917

* **November 7** - Bolsheviks start a revolution against the White Army in Russia

### 1918

* **February ??** - Beginning of the Spanish flu
* **January 12** - Japan intervenes in Siberia and enters the Russian Civil War on the White Army's side

### 1919

* **March 1** - Koreans attempting to revolt to declare independence
* **April ??** - The Kwantung Army was established
* **June 28** - Treaty of Versailles was signed

## 1920s

### 1920

* **Unknown Date** - Japan joins the League of Nations

### 1922

* **October ??** - Japan loses the Russian Civil War

### 1923

* **September 1** - The Great Kantō earthquake has struck

### 1925

* **January 20** - Japan signs a agreement with the USSR, Japan withdraws from Northern Sakhalin

### 1926

* **April 21** - Queen Elizabeth II was born
* **December 25** - Emperor Taisho dead at 47, death cause was heart attack, Hirohito becomes emperor

### 1928

* **June 4** - Huanggutun incident was commited by Japanese troops

### 1929

* **Unknown Date** - The Great Depression Starts

## 1930s

### 1930

* **February 18** - Hamako Mori(Gamer Grandma) was born

### 1931

* **September 18** - Mukden Incident occured, Japan invades Manchuria

### 1936

* **February 26** - Attempted coup de'tat occured in Japan's capital, coup failed

### 1937

* **July 7** - Japan launches a full-scale invasion of China, marking the beginning of the Second Sino-Japanese War
* **December 13** - Japanese troops massacred 300 thousand civilians in Nanjing

## 1940s

### 1940

* **Unknown Date** - Birth of Ison (In film only)
* **September 27** - Japans joins the Axis Powers

### 1941

* **February 26** - Birth of Kenji Matsumoto
* **December 7** - Japan attacks Pearl Harbor, USA enters WW2

### 1942

* **February 19** - US government announces to imprison all Japanese-Americans

### 1945

* **February 19** - Beginning of the Battle of Iwo Jima
* **March 26** - Japan loses the Battle of Iwo Jima
* **May 7** - Germany surrenders to the Allied Powers, leaving Japan the last Axis Power remaining in the war
* **April 1** - Beginning of the Battle of Okinawa
* **June 22** - Japan loses the Battle of Okinawa
* **August 6** - Nuclear bomb drops on Hiroshima
* **August 9** - Nuclear bomb drops on Nagasaki
* **August 15** - Japan announces surrender
* **August 28** - US occupies Japan for 7 years
* **September 2** - WWII ends
* **October 24** - Founding of the UN
* **October 25** - The last Japanese colony in Taiwan was transferred back to China

### 1947

* **March 12** - Cold War starts
* **May 3** - A constitution in Japan was signed
* **September 10** - Birth of Donzel Edward Owens Jr (PlasmaMasterDon)

### 1948

* **October 28** - Birth of Charlie Watanabe (in film only)

## 1950s

### 1950

* **March 1** - The Liberal Party was founded
* **June 25** - Outbreak of the Korean War
* **October 16** - Birth of Charles Marvin Green. Jr (Angry Grandpa)

### 1952

* **April 28** - US troops withdraw from Japan
* **November 16** - Birth of Shigeru Miyamoto

### 1953

* **July 27** - Korean War ends with an armistice

### 1954

* **June 10** - Charlie was caught spying Ison, and Ison bullies Charlie
* **September 21** - Birth of Shinzo Abe

### 1955

* **March 2** - Birth of Shoko Asahara
* **November 1** - Vietnam War starts
* **November 15** - Founding of Liberal Democratic Party

### 1958

* **August 29** - Birth of Michael Jackson

## 1960s

### 1960

* **October 12** - Assassination of Inejiro Asanuma

### 1963

* **September 15** - Birth of Charlie Watanabe's father (Hirokazu Watanabe)

### 1964

* **November 2** - The 1964 House Incident occurs, Ison takes revenge on Charlie for spying
* **November 3** - Ison kidnaps Charlie

### 1966

* **June 30** - Birth of Mike Tyson
* **November 8** - Birth of Gordon Ramsay

### 1968

* **March 16** - My Lai massacre commited by US soldiers

### 1969

* **November 10** - Sesame Street first episode was aired

## 1970s

### 1970

* **January 16** - Ison, 30, was arrested for kidnapping Ison

### 1971

* **June 28** - Birth of Elon Musk
* **July 20** - McDonald's Arrive in Japan
* **October 20** - Birth of Snoop Dogg

### 1973

* **March 29** - US troops leave Vietnam
* **July 17** - Birth of Daimou Kosaka

### 1974

* **March 9** - Last WWII Japanese soldier surrenders after 29 years of hiding in the Philippines

### 1975

* **April 30** - Vietnam War ends with the North Vietnamese victory

### 1979

* **July 21** - Ison, 39, escapes prison
* **November 19** - Birth of Charlie Watanabe's mom (Hisayo Watanabe)

## 1980s

### 1980

* **September 10** - Birth of Tetsuya Yamagami, Abe's killer

### 1981

* **March 8** - Birth of Keemstar
* **March 12** - Birth of Laoshu50500
* **September 28** - Ison, 41 loses the Ison-Charlie War, reincarnates back to his 14-year old form.

### 1982

* **February 24** - Birth of CwcvilleGuardian
* **October 23** - Birth of Eddie Bowley

### 1983

* **September 25** - Birth of Childish Gambino

### 1988

* **October 28** - Birth of Edd Gould
* **November 22** - Birth of Jamie Campbell Bower

### 1989

* **June 28** - Birth of Markiplier
* **October 24** - Birth of PewDiePie

## 1990s

### 1990

* **January 31** - McDonalds Open in USSR
* **May 5** - Birth of Christopher Bingham
* **June 27** - Birth of TomSka
* **July 27** - Birth of iDubbbz

### 1991

* **April 2** - Birth of Quavo
* **August 19** - Soviets stages coup against Yeltsin, coup fails
* **December 14** - Birth of Offset
* **December 22** - Birth of DaBaby
* **December 26** - USSR collapses, Ending the Cold War

### 1992

* **September 18** - Birth of Joji(TVFilthyFrank)

### 1994

* **June 18** - Birth of Takeoff
* **August 2** - Birth of Cr1tiKal
* **September 30** - Birth of Charmx

### 1995

* **July 31** - Birth of Lil Uzi Vert
* **August 18** - Birth of LeafyIsHere

### 1996

* **May 8** - Birth of 6ix9ine
* **August 1** - Ison, 14 was charged for bullying Charlie
* **December 10** - Ison, 14, was executed by lethal injection and electrocution

### 1998

* **May 7** - Birth of Mr. Beast
* **July 4** - Birth of Eli Margolis

### 1999

* **April 9** - Birth of Lil Nas X
* **June 1** - Birth of Technoblade

## 2000s (Pre-2006 Watanabe Show)

### 2000

* **August 17** - Birth of Lil Pump
* **October 12** - USS Cole was bombed by Al-Qaeda

### 2001

* **September 11** - Twin Towers from WTC Collapse, Perpetrators commited by Al-Qaeda

### 2002

* **November 9** - Birth of Chiyo Watanabe, Watanabe's older sister

### 2006

* **October 22** - PlasmaMasterDon created his channel at age 59 as of October 2006
* **October 28** - Charlie Nakamura Hideyoshi Watanabe is born on 1:00PM at a hospital somewhere in Hiroshima, Japan

### 2007

* **December 25** - Angry Grandpa, 57, uploads it's first video on break.com

### 2008

* **February 10** - Birth of Matthew Leong

## 2010s

### 2010

* **June 19** - Angry Grandpa, 59, few days before turning 60, takes revenge by responding to YouTube after their previous account was banned

### 2011

* **August 5** - Joji, 18, founded the first episode of the Filthy Frank Show on DizastaMusic

### 2012

* **August 17** - PlasmaMasterDon, 64, 24 days before turning 65, announces that his previous account PlasmaDude47 was hacked

### 2014

* **April 6** - Pro-Russian seperatists uprising and the beginning of the Donbas war

### 2017

* **December 10** - Angry Grandpa dead at 67, his death was announced by his son, he was cremated 4 days later
* **December 29** - Joji, 25, announced that he has retired from comedy industry

### 2019

* **December 19** - First COVID-19 case was reported

## 2020s

### 2020

* **December 21** - PlasmMasterDon dead at 73

### 2022

* **June 30** - Matthew Leong, 14, has disappeared after a passing out from a gas in a cargo plane
* **July 2** - Matthew Leong, 14, announced on the same date that he would likely step away from all his media he's in. The reason given was that making fanart online gave him too many stress and is hindering his digital drawing abilities
* **July 8** - Shinzo Abe dead at 67, murdered by Tetsuya Yamagami
* **July 10** - Matthew allows Charlie to hack into his YouTube account and delete it as his request
* **December 12** - Sergey Joachim, an half German-half Russian former YouTuber, 15, was assassinated by a gunshot while returning home.

### 2023

* **January 2** - Matthew Leong, 14 passed away from complications of an heavy illness.
* **January 24** - Funeral originally held on January 23 but delayed due to traffic and his coffin into the sea and he was faked being cremated, half of his ashes were given to Niko and Anthony, while the the other half was given to Ryan and Charlie.