Japan timeline

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  • 710

    the first capital is established at Nara

  • Period: 710 to

    Japan

  • 794

    start of the Heian period

  • 1185

    Minamoto no Yoritomo becomes the first shogun of Japan

  • 1467

    beginning of the Warring states period

  • 1543

    first contact between Japanese and Europeans and beginning of trade

  • 1573

    the Azuchi-Momoyama period begins

  • the beginning of the Tokugawa shogunate

  • the sakoku (“locked country”) period begins

  • the arrival of the United States navy fleet commanded by Matthew Perry

  • the Meiji Restoration