Timeline: Japan
| Years: c. 8000 BCE - 2011 | Subject: Encyclopedias, Geographical reference |
| Publisher: HistoryWorld | Online Publication Date: 2012 |
| Current online version: 2012 | eISBN: 9780191735929 |
| Year | Event |
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| c. 8000 BCE | Go to Jomon in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 23 BCE | Go to sumo wrestling in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 350 | Go to Yamato in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 400 | Go to Yamato in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 538 | Go to Buddhism in A Dictionary of Sociology (3 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 607 | Go to Nara in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 710 | Go to Xi'an (Shaanxi/China) in The Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 735 | Go to go noun in The Oxford Essential Dictionary of Foreign Terms in English (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 768 | Go to printing in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 794 | Go to Kyōto (Honshū/Japan) in The Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 877 | Go to Fujiwara in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 995 | Go to pillow book noun in Oxford Dictionary of English (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1001 | Go to Murasaki, Shikibu (978–1014) in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1054 | Go to Crab Nebula in A Dictionary of Astronomy (2 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 1150 | Go to Zen Buddhism in A Dictionary of Asian Mythology (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1185 | Go to Minamoto Yoritomo (1147–99) in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1192 | Go to shogun in The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 1200 | Go to samurai in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to bushidō in A Dictionary of Buddhism (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 1250 | Go to Seto in The Grove Encyclopedia of Decorative Arts (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
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| 1274 | Go to Nichiren (1222–82) in A Dictionary of Buddhism (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
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| c. 1300 | Go to tea ceremony in A Dictionary of Buddhism (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1338 | Go to Ashikaga in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1374 | Go to Nō drama in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (1 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1397 | Go to shogun in The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
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| 1573 | Go to Oda Nobunaga (1534–82) in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1588 | Go to raku in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1603 | Go to Tokugawa in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1624 | Go to Japan in The Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 1650 | Go to Ukiyo-e in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to kabuki noun in Oxford Dictionary of English (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 1670 | Go to Kakiemon in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 1675 | Go to Kakiemon in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 1780 | Go to Utamaro, Kitagawa (1753–1806) in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1830 | Go to Hokusai, Katsushika (1760–1849) in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1854 | Go to Perry, Matthew Calbraith (1794–1858) in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1894 | Go to Sino-Japanese War (1894–95) in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1895 | Go to Sino-Japanese war (1894–5) in The Oxford Companion to Military History (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Sino-Japanese War (1894–95) in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1902 | Go to Philippine War in The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1904 | Go to Russo-Japanese War (1904–05) in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1908 | Go to Puyi (1906–67) in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Cixi (c. 1834–1908) in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1909 | Go to Leach, Bernard Howell (1887–1979) in Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1911 | Go to Leach, Bernard Howell (1887–1979) in Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1912 | Go to Tibet in A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1913 | Go to Yuan Shikai (b. 16 Sept. 1859) in A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1914 | Go to Japan in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1920 | Go to Hamada, Shōji (9 Dec 1894) in The Grove Encyclopedia of Decorative Arts (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1926 | Go to Hirohito (b. 29 Apr. 1904) in A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1931 | Go to Mukden incident (18 September 1931) in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1932 | Go to Manchukuo in A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1933 | Go to League of Nations in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1936 | Go to Anti-Comintern Pact (25 Nov. 1936) in A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1937 | Go to Marco Polo Bridge Incident (7 July 1937) in A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Sino-Japanese War (1937–45) in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Nanjing, Rape of in A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1939 | Go to Khalkin Gol, Frontier Battle of (1939) in A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1940 | Go to Tripartite Pact in The Oxford Companion to World War II (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1941 | Go to Aung San (1915–1947) in Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Pearl Harbor in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Tojo Hideki (1884–1948) in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Hong Kong, fall of (1941) in The Oxford Companion to Military History (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1942 | Go to Doolittle Raid in The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1944 | Go to kamikaze in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Superfortress in The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1945 | Go to napalm in The Oxford Companion to Military History (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Okinawa, Battle of in The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to kamikaze in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Baka bomb in The Oxford Companion to World War II (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Okinawa, capture of in The Oxford Companion to World War II (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Hirohito (b. 29 Apr. 1904) in A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Hiroshima in A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: August 8 - the USSR declares war on Japan, two days after an atom bomb has been dropped on Hiroshima Go to Japanese–Soviet campaigns and relations, 1939–45 in The Oxford Companion to World War II (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Nagasaki in A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Japan, surrender of in The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to V-J Day in The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Japan, Occupation of (1945–52) in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Japan, surrender of in The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1946 | Go to Hirohito in The Oxford Companion to the Politics of the World (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Tokyo War Crimes Trial in Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1948 | Go to Matsuyama Ballet in The Oxford Dictionary of Dance (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Tojo, Hideki (1885–1948) in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1951 | Go to Kurosawa Akira (1910–1998) in Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1954 | Go to Kurosawa Akira (1910–1998) in Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1956 | Go to Mishima, Yukio (1925–1970) in Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| c. 1965 | Go to karaoke noun in The Oxford Essential Dictionary of Foreign Terms in English (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1970 | Go to Mishima, Yukio (1925–70) in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1983 | Go to synthesizer in The Oxford Companion to Music (1 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to compact disc in The Oxford Companion to Music (1 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1994 | Go to Piano, Renzo (1937– ) in A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 1998 | Go to Shikoku in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to International Space Station in A Dictionary of Space Exploration (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
| 2011 | Go to tsunami in A Dictionary of Environment and Conservation (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to meltdown in A Dictionary of Public Health (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to tsunami in A Dictionary of Environment and Conservation (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
