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Takayoshi Kido leads the Samurai of humble origins and they win the civil war in Choshu.
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Takamori Saigo of Satsuma and Takayoshi Kido of Choshu form a secret alliance in Kyoto.
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Keiki Tokugawa/ Yoshinobu ascends to the shogunate in Kyoto.
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He helped make the Meiji Restoration (overthrow of the shogunate and restoration of power to the emperor) relatively peaceful.
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One of the samurai leaders who overthrew the Tokugawa family in 1868.
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Given command of the newly created Imperial Guard, consisting of ~10,000 troops.
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Aritomo Yamagata becomes army minister.
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Saigo led a samurai revolt against the emperor who forbode them to carry swords, but they were defeated by the regular army and Saigo was killed.
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Nintendo is founded by Fusajiro Yamauchi.
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Sino-Jap war Pro-Japanese Korean leader of the 1884 coup was lured to Shanghai and killed. His body was put on a Chinese warship and sent back to Korea as a warning to other rebels.