Imperial Japan

By AshleyBallew

  • 1800

    1800
    Europeans had been in contact with China for more than two hundred years.

  • 1853

    1853
    The rebels seized Nanjing, the second largest city of the empire, and massacred 25,000 men, women, and children.

  • 1858

    1858
    U.S. consul Townsend Harris signed a more detailed treaty. It called for the opening of several new ports to U.S. trade and residence, as well as an exchange of ministers.

  • 1863

    1863
    the Sat-Cho alliance (from Satsuma-Choshu) forced the shogun to promise to end relations with the West.

  • 1868

    1868
    Meiji Restoration begins

  • 1889

    1889
    Tokyo School of Fine Arts was established to promote traditional Japanese art. Japanese artists searched for a new but truly Japanese means of expression.

  • 1904

    1904
    Japan launched a surprise attack on the Russian naval base at Port Arthur, which Russia had taken from China in 1898.

  • 1905

    1905
    Sun Yat-sen forms Revolutionary

  • 1910

    1910
    Japan annexes Korea