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Japanese Name
of Period |
Events in Japan and in the world |
the Primitive
Ages |
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the Stone
Age |
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500,000B.C. |
Primitive man appeared
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300,000B.C. |
Stone Age man began to live in Japanese islands |
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| Jomon |
| 3,000B.C. |
Egyptian Civilization was advanced |
| 221B.C. |
The Great Wall of China was constructed |
| 239 |
A queen called Himiko sent her emissary to the province of "Gi" |
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| Yayoi |
the Ancient
Ages |
Kofun |
| 645 | The Taika Reform was introduced |
| 661 | The Islamic Empire was formed |
| 710 | Nara became the first permanent capital |
| 794 | The capital moved to Heian (Kyoto) |
| 962 | The Holy Roman Empire was formed |
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| Nara |
| Heian |
the Middle
Ages |
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Kamakura |
| 1192 | The Kamakura shogunate was established |
| 1299 | Marco Polo presented his reserch about the East |
| 1467 | The Onin War broke out |
| 1492 | Christpher Columbus discovered the New Continent |
| 1590 | Hideyoshi Toyotomi united Japan |
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| Muromachi |
| Sengoku |
the Modern
Period |
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Edo |
| 1600 | Tokugawa Ieyasu defeated his rivals in the battle of Sekigahara |
| 1639 | The isolation policy was proclaimed |
| 1770 | The Industrial Revolution broke out in England |
| 1776 | Independence was decleared in America |
| 1804 | Napoleon Bonaparte acceded to the Emperor |
| 1853 | Commodore Matthew Perry forced the Japanese government to open ports for trade |
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the Present
Day |
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the first
half of Meiji |
| 1868 | Meiji Restoration |
| 1889 | The Meiji Constitutions was promulgated |
| 1896 | The first Modern Olympic Games was held |
| 1903 | The Wright brothers accomplished their purpose to make airplane |
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the second
half of Meiji |
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the Taisho |
| 1914 | World War I broke out |
| 1923 | The Great Kanto Earthquake devastated Tokyo and Yokohama |
| 1925 | Radio broadcasting started |
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the early
part of Showa |
| 1929 | The world financial panic was caused |
| 1941 | Japan joined allied forces in World War II |
| 1945 | Atomic bombs were dropped over Hiroshima and Nagasaki |
| 1945 | The United Nations was organized |
| 1949 | The People's Republic of China was organized |
| 1953 | Television broadcast started |
| 1957 | The Soviet Union launched an artificial satellite |
| 1964 | The Olympic Games was held at Tokyo |
| 1969 | The Apollo No.11 landed at the moon |
| 1970 | The International Exposition was held in Japan |
| 1986 | Chernobyl accident happened |
| 1988 | The Seikan tunnel was opened |
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the middle
part of Showa |
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the latter
part of Showa |
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Heisei |
| 1990 | East Germany and West Germany were united |
| 1991 | The Soviet Union fell |
| 1994 | The 12nd Asian Games was held at Hiroshima |
| 1995 | The Great Hanshin Earthquake hit Kobe |
| 1998 | The Winter Olympic Games was held at Nagano |
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| the Future |
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