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Japanese history

Jomon period

14000 bc - 300 bc

Ancient Japan

Yayoi period

300 b.c. - 300

Agricultural advances and Iron Age.

Yamato period

250 - 710

Early Chinese influences.

Asuka period

538 - 710

Buddhism influence came from Japan.

Nara as capital

710 - 784

Nara period

710 - 794

Agricultural and centered around villages.

Heian period

794 - 1185

Chinese influence and Imperial Court at their peaks.

Kyoto as capital

794 - 1192

When Hiragana was created

900 - 901

Tale of Genji was written

1021 - 1022

Kamakura period

1185 - 1333

Feudalism and Samurai started to show up.

Kamakura as capital

1192 - 1333

Kyoto as captial

1333 - 1869

Muromachi Period

1337 - 1573

Many warring states.

Oda Nobunaga

1534 - 1582

Major Daimyo, initiated unification of Japan under shogunate. Military conquest.

Toyotomi Hideyoshi

1536 - 1598

Unified political factions of Japan, Daimyo

Ieyasu Tokugawa

1543 - 1616

Founder and first Shogun of Tokugawa shogunate.

When Christianity first came to Japan

1549 - 1550

Edo period

1603 - 1868

Economic and Isolationist.

Meiji Emporer

1852 - 1912

Lead the restoration, made Japan a world power.

Matthew Perry and the "Blackships" first came to japan

1863 - 1864

Meiji period

1868 - 1912

Empire of Japan and moving out of isolation. Japan started to assume its modern role.

Tokyo as capital

1869 - present day

First constitution written

1890 - 1891

Taisho period

1912 - 1925

Liberal Movement and the Taisho Democracy

Tokyo earthquake

1923 - 1924

Showa period

1926 - 1989

Totalitarian and very militaristic.

Two atomic bombs dropped

1945 - 1946

Tokyo Olympics

1964 - 1965

Heisei period

1989 - present day

Modern Period

Kobe earthquake

1997 - 1998

United States history

Colombus sailed and discovered the new world

1492 - 1493

Jamestown Established

1607 - 1608

Declaration of Independance

1765 - 1766

Boston Massacre

1770 - 1771

George Washington became 1st president

1787 - 1788

Washington D.C. became U.S. capital

1790 - 1791

Lewis and Clark exploration of the west

1803 - 1804

State of Oregon established

1842 - 1843

Civil War

1861 - 1865

Wright brothers fly first airplane

1903 - 1904

City of Gresham established

1905 - 1906

WWI

1914 - 1918

WWII

1939 - 1941

Bombing of Pearl Harbor

1941 - 1942

Vietnam War

1955 - 1956