Timeline of Kyoto

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The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, Honshu island, Japan.

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Prior to 19th century[]

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  • 794 CE - Kanmu relocates Japanese capital to Heian-kyō from Nagaoka-kyō.[1][2]
  • 947 - Kitano Shrine built.
  • 970 - Gion Festival begins.[3]
  • 1202 - Zen Buddhist Kennin-ji (temple) founded in Higashiyama by Eisai.
  • 1319 - Daitoku-ji Temple built.[4]
  • 1397 - Kinkaku-ji (Temple of the Golden Pavilion) founded.[5]
  • 1431 - Famine.[5]
  • 1444 - Political protest by merchants, at Kitano Shrine.[6]
  • 1467 - Ōnin War begins.[7]
  • 1480 - Ikkō-ikki unrest.[8]
  • 1560 - Aritsugu swordsmith in business.
  • 1586
  • 1788 - Great Kyoto Fire.[10]

19th century[]

  • 1854 - Kyoto Imperial Palace rebuilt.[10]
  • 1869 - Japanese imperial capital relocated from Kyoto to Tokyo.[10]
  • 1871
    • Tokyo-Osaka-Kyoto postal service begins.[11]
    • Kyoto Prefecture created.[12]
  • 1872 - Exhibition of Arts and Manufactures held.[citation needed]
  • 1875 - Protestant Doshisha English School established.[13]
  • 1877 - Kyōto Station opens.
  • 1879 - Kamigyō-ku and Shimogyō-ku ward established.[citation needed]
  • 1886 - Maruyama Park opens.
  • 1887 - Population: 264,559.[14]
  • 1888 - Takocho (eatery) in business.[15]
  • 1890 - Lake Biwa Canal built.[16]
  • 1893 - Population: 317,270.[17]
  • 1895
    • Kyoto Electric Railway begins operating.
    •  [ja] held in Kyoto;[18][19] Heian Shrine built.[13]
  • 1897
    • Imperial University of Kyoto established.[12]
    •  [ja] religious newspaper begins publication.
  • 1899 - Kyoto Camera Club formed.[20]
  • 1900 - Miyako Hotel in business.[4]

20th century[]

  • 1903
    • Kyoto Municipal Zoo established.[21]
    • Population: 379,404.[16]
  • 1904 - Japan's first ekiben (boxed lunch) sold in Kyoto.[11]
  • 1909
    • Kyoto Commercial Museum opens.[22]
    • Population: 442,402.[23]
  • 1913
  • 1918 - Population: 670,357.[17]
  • 1921 - Higashiyama-ku ward created.[citation needed]
  • 1922 - Kyoto Sanga Football Club formed.
  • 1924 - Kyoto Botanical Garden established.[25]
  • 1925
    • December:  [ja] occurs.[26]
    • Population: 679,963.[27]
  • 1928 - Hirohito's imperial enthronement ceremony held in Kyoto.[13]
  • 1929
  • 1930 - Population: 765,142
  • 1931 - Fushimi-ku and Ukyō-ku wards created.[citation needed]
  • 1934 - Salon de thé François (café) opens.
  • 1940 - Population: 1,089,726.[17]
  • 1942
    • Kyoto Shimbun newspaper in publication.[3]
    • Nishikyogoku Athletic Stadium opens.
  • 1945 - Population: 866,153.[28]
  • 1946 - November: National Sports Festival of Japan held in Kyoto.[29]
  • 1950 - Population: 1,101,854.[17]
  • 1955 - Kita-ku and Minami-ku wards created.[citation needed]
  • 1956 - Kyoto designated a government ordinance city.[30]
  • 1960
    • Kyoto Kaikan (concert hall) opens.
    • National Christian Council Center for the Study of Japanese Religions founded.[31]
  • 1964 - Kyoto Tower erected.
  • 1969 - Kyoto Computer Gakuin (school) established.
  • 1970 - October: Kyoto hosts World Conference of Religions for Peace.[32]
  • 1975 - Population: 1,460,000.[33]
  • 1976 - Nishikyō-ku and Yamashina-ku wards created.[citation needed]
  • 1981 - Kyoto Municipal Subway begins operating.
  • 1987 - City hosts World Conference of Historical Cities.[34]
  • 1988 - Nettowāku Kyōto (magazine) in publication.[35]
  • 1994 - Kyoto UNESCO World Heritage Site established.[36]
  • 1995 - Kyoto Concert Hall opens.
  • 1996 - Yorikane Masumoto elected mayor.
  • 1997
  • 2000
    • Kyoto Art Center opens.
    • Population: 1,467,705.[37]

21st century[]

See also[]

References[]

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  2. ^ Kenneth Henshall (2014). "Chronology". Historical Dictionary of Japan to 1945. USA: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-7872-3.
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  5. ^ Jump up to: a b Kozo Yamamura, ed. (1990). "Chronology of Medieval Period". Medieval Japan. Cambridge History of Japan. 3. Cambridge University Press. p. 31+. ISBN 0521223520.
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  8. ^ Gay 2001.
  9. ^ Dougill 2006.
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  12. ^ Jump up to: a b Louis Frédéric (2002). Japan Encyclopedia. Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-01753-5.
  13. ^ Jump up to: a b c "Timeline of Religion and Nationalism in Meiji and Imperial Japan". About Japan: A Teacher’s Resource. New York: Japan Society. Retrieved July 30, 2015.
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  16. ^ Jump up to: a b Britannica 1910.
  17. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e Ayanori Okasaki (1957). "Growth of Urban Population in Japan". Genus. 13 (1/4): 132–152. JSTOR 29787368.
  18. ^ "Expositions: where the modern technology of the times was exhibited". Tokyo: National Diet Library. 2011.
  19. ^ F. Brinkley (1895), Kyoto Industrial Exhibition of 1895, Printed at the "Japan Mail" Office, OL 7125229M
  20. ^ "Chronology". History of Japanese Photography. USA: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. 2003. ISBN 978-0-300-09925-6.
  21. ^ Vernon N. Kisling, ed. (2000). "Zoological Gardens of Japan (chronological list)". Zoo and Aquarium History. USA: CRC Press. ISBN 978-1-4200-3924-5.
  22. ^ Kyoto Commercial Museum (1910), Official Catalogue, Kyōto: Kyōto Shōhin Chinretsujo, OL 22476971M
  23. ^ Kuniko Fujita and Richard Child Hill, ed. (1993). Japanese Cities. USA: Temple University Press. ISBN 978-1-4399-0092-5.
  24. ^ Album of the Hirase Conchological Museum, Kyoto, 1915, OCLC 8607506, OL 23270621M
  25. ^ "Garden Search: Japan". London: Botanic Gardens Conservation International. Retrieved July 30, 2015.
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  27. ^ Y. Takenobu (1928). "Population of the Cities". Japan Year Book 1929. Tokyo.
  28. ^ "Population of capital city and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 1955. New York: Statistical Office of the United Nations.
  29. ^ Allen Guttmann; Lee Austin Thompson (2001). Japanese Sports: A History. University of Hawaii Press. ISBN 978-0-8248-2464-8.
  30. ^ Philip Shapira; et al., eds. (1994). Planning for Cities and Regions in Japan. Liverpool University Press. ISBN 978-0-85323-248-3.
  31. ^ "About". NCC Center for the Study of Japanese Religions. Retrieved May 30, 2014.
  32. ^ Ugo Dessì (2013). Japanese Religions and Globalization. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-81170-5.
  33. ^ United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Statistical Office (1976). "Population of capital city and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 1975. New York. pp. 253–279.
  34. ^ "About". League of Historical Cities. Retrieved May 30, 2014.
  35. ^ Nettowāku Kyōto. WorldCat. USA: Online Computer Library Center. OCLC 835776001.
  36. ^ Brumann 2012.
  37. ^ "Japan". Europa World Year Book. Europa Publications. 2004. ISBN 978-1-85743-254-1.
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This article incorporates information from the Japanese Wikipedia.

Bibliography[]

Published in the 17th-19th centuries
  • Kyo-habutae [Kyoto Brocade] (in Japanese). 1685. (guidebook)
  • Kaibara Ekiken (1706–1718). Keijo shoran [Excellent Views of Kyoto] (in Japanese). Kyoto: Ryugiken.
  • Hiroshige, Kyoto meisho no uchi [Famous Places of Kyoto] (in Japanese) circa 1835
  • M. Ichihara (1895), Official guide-book to Kyoto and the allied prefectures, Nara: Meishinsha, OCLC 2600346
Published in the 20th century
  • Kyoto City Council (1903). Kyōto, Japan. K. Azumae.
  • H. Hotta (1903). "City of Kyoto". Up-to-date guide for the land of the rising sun. Kobe: Z.P. Maruya & Co.
  • Basil Hall Chamberlain; W.B. Mason (1907), "Kyōto", Handbook for Travellers in Japan (8th ed.), London: J. Murray, OCLC 1329108
  • "Kioto", Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424 – via Internet Archive
  • T. Philip Terry (1914), "Kyoto and its Environs", Terry's Japanese Empire, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, LCCN 14005129
  • Robert P. Porter (1915), "The Larger Cities: Kyoto", Japan, the new world-power (2nd ed.), London: Milford
  • Richard Ponsonby-Fane. (1956). Kyoto: The Old Capital of Japan, 794-1869. Kyoto: The Ponsonby Memorial Society.
  • Schellinger and Salkin, ed. (1996). "Kyoto". International Dictionary of Historic Places: Asia and Oceania. UK: Routledge. p. 515+. ISBN 9781884964046.
  • Mary Elizabeth Berry (1997). "Transitions in Kyoto's Government, 1467-1568". The Culture of Civil War in Kyoto. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-91903-7.
  • Mason Florence (1998), Kyoto, Lonely Planet, OL 8314749M
  • Ian Martin Röpke (1999). Historical Dictionary of Osaka and Kyoto. Historical Dictionaries of Cities of the World. Maryland, USA: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-3622-8.
Published in the 21st century
  • Suzanne Marie Gay (2001). The Moneylenders of Late Medieval Kyoto. University of Hawaii Press. ISBN 978-0-8248-2461-7.
  • Nicolas Fiévé and Paul Waley, ed. (2003). Japanese Capitals in Historical Perspective: Place, Power and Memory in Kyoto, Edo and Tokyo. RoutledgeCurzon. ISBN 978-0-7007-1409-4.
  • Diane Durston (2005). "History". Old Kyoto: A Guide to Traditional Shops, Restaurants, and Inns. Kodansha International. ISBN 978-4-7700-2994-2.
  • John Dougill (2006). "City of Unification". Kyoto: A Cultural History. Cityscapes. Oxford University Press. p. 109+. ISBN 978-0-19-976046-6.
  • Matthew P. McKelway (2006). Capitalscapes: Folding Screens And Political Imagination in Late Medieval Kyoto. University of Hawaii Press. ISBN 978-0-8248-2900-1.
  • Christoph Brumann (2012). "Re-uniting a divided city: High-rises, conflict, and urban space in central Kyoto". In Christoph Brumann and Evelyn Schulz (ed.). Urban Spaces in Japan: Cultural and Social Perspectives. Japanese Studies Series. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-136-31883-2.
  • Christoph Brumann (2012). Tradition, Democracy and the Townscape of Kyoto: Claiming a Right to the Past. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-69070-6.

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Coordinates: 35°00′42″N 135°46′06″E / 35.011667°N 135.768333°E / 35.011667; 135.768333

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