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Illustrated Time Line - Imperial Japan

By Dess

  • 1800

    1800
    Qing dynasty of the Manchus was at the height of its power.

  • 1853

    1853
    Commodore Perry arrives in Japan

  • 1858

    1858
    The Chinese agreed to legalize the opium trade and also open new ports to foreign trade.

  • 1863

    1863
    The Sat-Cho alliance force the shogun to promise to end relations with the West.

  • 1868

    1868
    Meiji Restoration begins.

  • 1889

    1889
    The Meiji constitution was modeled after that of Imperial Germany.

  • 1904

    1904
    Japan launched a surprise attack on the Russian naval base at port Arthur.

  • 1905

    1905
    Sun Yat-sen forms Revolutionary Alliance in China.

  • 1907

    1907
    President Theodore Roosevelt made a “gentlemen’s agreement” with Japan that essentially stopped Japanese immigration to the United States.

  • 1910

    1910
    Japan’s industrial sector begins to grow.