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Jan 1, 710
imperial court
The imperial court estsblished at Nara -
May 30, 1050
famine kills
the famine kills hundreds of thousands of people -
Jan 1, 1087
first of cloistered empero
emperor Shirakawa abdicates and becomes a Buddhist monk, the first of the "cloistered emperors" -
May 26, 1192
yoritomo is shogun
yoritomo is shogun and japan is ruled by a millitary style goverment; the mongols invade japan -
Jan 1, 1333
japan under rule
japan is briefly under imperial rule -
Jan 1, 1336
first contact
japan comes in first contact with the Europeans -
Jan 1, 1543
portuguese
portuguese traders come into japan -
May 26, 1576
shogunless
japan has a shogunless period -
battle of sekigahara
at the battle of Sekigahara, Tokugawa Ieyasu, a friend of Hideyoshi and Nobunaga, defeats the other contenders to the leadership of Japan -
japan closes doors
japan closes there doors to the westerns -
band
Ieyasu bans Christianity from Japan -
Heian period
the Heaian period begains- a time of cultural and artistic development
