This post is a basic timeline of Japan. There are 42 events listed below chronologically. Source:
Wikipedia
- First humans (30,000 years ago)
- Jomon period (14,000 - 300 BC)
- Yayoi period (300 BC - 300 AD)
- Kofun period (250-538 AD)
- Asuka period (538-719 AD)
- Nara period (710-794 AD)
- Imperial House of Japan (660 BC - now)
- Heian period (794-1185 AD)
- Genpei War (1180-1185)
- Kamakura shogunate (1192-1333)
- Mongol invasions (13th century)
- Muromachi period (1336-1573)
- Sengoku period (1467-1615)
- Portugal arrives (1543)
- Nanban trade (1543-1614)
- Azuchi-Momoyama period (1568-1600)
- Invasion of Korea (1592-1598)
- Edo period (1600-1868)
- Invasion of Ryukyu (1609)
- Boshin War (1868-1869)
- Perry Expedition by United States (1853-1854)
- Meiji Restoration (1868)
- Meiji period (1868-1912)
- Donghak Peasant Revolution (1894-1895)
- First Sino-Japanese War (1894-1895)
- Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905)
- Korea is annexed to Japan (1910)
- Taisho period (1912-1926)
- Showa period (1926-1989)
- Invasion of Manchuria, China (1931-1932)
- Attempted coup d'état (1936)
- Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945)
- Nanjing Massacre (1937-1938)
- Attack on Pearl Harbor (1941)
- Hiroshima and Nagasaki nuclear attacks (1945)
- Allied occupation of Japan (1945-1952)
- Constitution of Japan (1947)
- Korean War (1950-1953)
- Japanese asset bubble (1986-1989)
- Heisei period (1989-2019)
- Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster (2011)
- Reiwa period (2019 - now)
