Japan Timeline By elainecomerford17 250 Founding of the Great Shrine 500 Japan adopts the Chinese alphabet 552 Indtroduction of Buddhism in Japan Dec 15, 645 Kotoku becomes emperor of Japan Dec 15, 1100 Taira and Minamoto fight for control of Japan Dec 15, 1180 Minamoto clan takes control of Japan Dec 15, 1181 Great famine kills thousands of people Dec 15, 1192 Yoritomo becomes Shogun and begins the Shogunate government Dec 15, 1274 Kublai Khan and the Mongols try to invade Japan Mar 2, 2022 Koken becomes empress Mar 2, 2022 The Heian Era begins Mar 2, 2022 Japanese emperor bens contact with China
