Timeline of Tokyo
The following is a timeline of the history of Tokyo, Japan.
Prior to 19th century[]
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19th century[]
- 1853
- July 8: American Perry Expedition arrives in Edo Bay.
- Odaiba island forts built in Edo Bay.
- Hanayashiki garden opens.[2]
- 1855 - November 11: 1855 Edo earthquake occurs.
- 1856 - Hiroshige's One Hundred Famous Views of Edo published.
- 1868 - Edo renamed "Tokyo."[4]
- 1869
- 1871 - Esaki Reiji photo studio in business.[8]
- 1872
- 1873 - Dai-Ichi Kokuritsu Bank established.[11]
- 1874 - Aoyama Gakuin school and Saint Paul's school established.[6]
- 1877
- 1880 - Mitsubishi Bank and Yasuda Bank established.[13]
- 1881
- Tokyo Imperial Museum built.[14]
- Tokyo Vocational School founded.
- 1882
- 1884 - Railway Yamanote Line begins operating.[9]
- 1886 - "First fixed advertising billboard in Tokyo" installed.[16]
- 1887 - [7] founded.
- 1888
- Tokyo Asahi Shimbun (newspaper) begins publication.
- established.
- 1889
- 1890
- 1894 - Tokyo-fu Government Building constructed in Marunouchi.[4]
- 1897 - March: Motion picture first shown.[18]
20th century[]
1900s-1940s[]
- 1901 - Tokyo Photography Circle (club) formed.[8]
- 1902 - Industrial Bank of Japan headquartered in city.[11]
- 1903
- 1905 - September 5: Hibiya Incendiary Incident occurs.[1]
- 1906 - Harajuku Station opens.
- 1907 - Tokyo Industrial Exhibition held.[12]
- 1910 - Luna Park opens.
- 1911 - Imperial Theatre opens.[20]
- 1914
- 1916 - Tokyo Photographers Guild established.[8]
- 1917 - [21] active.
- 1918
- 1920
- 1921 - November 4: Japanese prime minister Takashi Hara assassinated.[1]
- 1923 - September 1: 1923 Great Kantō earthquake occurs.[22]
- 1925 - [23][18] begins operating.
- 1926
- 1927 - Tokyo Underground Railway begins operating between Asakusa and Ueno.[7]
- 1928 - opens in Tokyo Bay.
- 1929 - Tokyo March song/film become popular.[25]
- 1930 - Population: 4,986,913.[17]
- 1931 - Haneda Airport begins operating.[4]
- 1933 - Dai-Ichi Seimei Building constructed.
- 1934
- Yomiuri Giants baseball team formed.[26]
- [20] opens.
- 1936
- 1937 - Korakuen Stadium opens.[26]
- 1938 - Rikugi-en (park) opens.
- 1940 - Population: 6,778,804.[17]
- 1941 - Port of Tokyo opens.[4]
- 1942 - April: Bombing of Tokyo by US forces begins.
- 1943 - "Metropolitan administration system established."[4]
- 1945
- 1946 - Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal begins.[23]
- 1947
- 1948 - National Diet Library headquartered in Tokyo.[10]
1950s-1990s[]
- 1950 - Population: 6,277,500.[29]
- 1955
- 1958
- Japanese National Stadium opens.
- May: 1958 Asian Games held in Tokyo.
- 1961
- opens.
- Higashi-Ikebukuro Taishôken ramen shop in business.[31]
- 1964
- Tōkaidō Shinkansen (hi-speed train) begins operating;[32]
- October: 1964 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo.[22]
- Tokyo 12 Channel TV begins broadcasting.[16]
- Hotel New Otani Tokyo built.
- 1967 - Yoyogi Park created.
- 1968
- Kasumigaseki Building (hi-rise) built.
- Ramen Jiro eatery in business.[31]
- 1969 - "[4] enacted."
- 1971 - Keio Plaza Hotel (hi-rise) built.
- 1971 - The Zengakuren demonstrate in Tokyo against terms for the return of Okinawa from US to Japanese control.
- 1972 - Nakagin Capsule Tower built.
- 1973 - Tokyo Metropolitan Library opens.[10]
- 1975
- 1979 - June: 5th G7 summit held in city.
- 1988
- Tokyo Dome (stadium) opens.[26]
- Yumenoshima Tropical Greenhouse Dome established.[34]
- 1989 - Bunkamura cultural venue opens.
- 1991 - Metropolitan government relocates to new building in Shinjuku.[4]
- 1993
- Rainbow Bridge opens.[4]
- DN Tower 21 built.
- 1995 - March 20: Tokyo subway sarin attack.[22]
- 1996 - Tokyo Big Sight convention centre opens.
- 2000 - Population: 8,130,408.[35]
21st century[]
- 2001 - October: Asian Network of Major Cities 21 meets in Tokyo.[4]
- 2002 - Tokyo International Anime Fair begins.
- 2004 - [4] bank established.
- 2005 - Tokyo Metropolitan University established.[4]
- 2007
- 2008 - C40 environmental group meets in Tokyo.[4]
- 2011 - 2011 Great East Japan earthquake and tsunami occurs and seriously Fukushima nuclear disaster.[4]
- 2012
- Tokyo Gate Bridge opens.[4]
- Tokyo Skytree tower built.[4]
- 2013 - September: Tokyo chosen as site of the future 2020 Summer Olympics.[22]
- 2014
- Toranomon Hills (hi-rise) built.
- Yoichi Masuzoe elected governor.[36]
- 2016 - Yuriko Koike elected governor.[37]
- 2020 - March: Ultimately postponement of 2020 Summer Olympics to July 2021 announced due to COVID-19 concerns.
See also[]
- History of Tokyo, and "significant events" sections
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b c Cybriwsky 2011, p. xvii: "Chronology"
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d Mansfield 2009.
- ^ Guth 1996.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w "Historical Calendar of Tokyo". Tokyo Metropolitan Government. Retrieved July 30, 2015. (timeline)
- ^ Jump up to: a b c Meech 2008.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d "Timeline of Religion and Nationalism in Meiji and Imperial Japan". About Japan: a Teacher’s Resource. New York: Japan Society. Retrieved July 30, 2015.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i "Timeline of Modern Japan (1868-1945)". About Japan: a Teacher’s Resource. New York: Japan Society.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c "Chronology". History of Japanese Photography. USA: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. 2003. ISBN 978-0-300-09925-6.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c Freedman 2011.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c "Institutions in Japan: Browse by Region (Kinki)". Research Access in Japanese Museums, Libraries, and Archives Resources. North American Coordinating Council on Japanese Library Resources. Retrieved July 30, 2015.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d e Norio Tamaki (1995). "Genealogy of leading Japanese banks, 1859-1959". Japanese Banking: A History, 1859-1959. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-02233-0.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Expositions: where the modern technology of the times was exhibited". Tokyo: National Diet Library. 2011.
- ^ Glyn Davies; Roy Davies (2002). "Comparative Chronology of Money" – via University of Exeter.
- ^ "Japan, 1800–1900 A.D.: Key Events". Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved July 30, 2015.
- ^ Vernon N. Kisling, ed. (2000). "Zoological Gardens of Japan (chronological list)". Zoo and Aquarium History. USA: CRC Press. ISBN 978-1-4200-3924-5.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c Brian Moeran (1996). "Chronology of Japanese Advertising and Media from 1862 to 1991". A Japanese Advertising Agency: An Anthropology of Media and Markets. University of Hawaii Press. ISBN 978-1-136-79533-6.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d Ayanori Okasaki (1957). "Growth of Urban Population in Japan". Genus. 13 (1/4): 132–152. JSTOR 29787368.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Jasper Sharp (2011). "Chronology". Historical Dictionary of Japanese Cinema. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-7541-8.
- ^ Kenneth Henshall (2014). "Chronology". Historical Dictionary of Japan to 1945. USA: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-7872-3.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c "Movie Theaters in Tokyo". CinemaTreasures.org. Los Angeles: Cinema Treasures LLC. Retrieved July 30, 2015.
- ^ Toru Mitsui, ed. (2014). Made in Japan: Studies in Popular Music. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-135-95534-2.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d BBC News. "Japan Profile: Timeline". Retrieved July 30, 2015.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Yoshio Sugimoto, ed. (2009). "Chronology". Cambridge Companion to Modern Japanese Culture. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-107-49546-3.
- ^ Colin Lawson, ed. (2003). "Orchestras Founded in the 20th Century (chronological list)". Cambridge Companion to the Orchestra. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-00132-8.
- ^ Daisuke Miyao, ed. (2013). Oxford Handbook of Japanese Cinema. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-973166-4.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c Cybriwsky 2011.
- ^ History Timeline, Konica Minolta, retrieved July 30, 2015
- ^ "Japan, 1900 A.D.-present: Key Events". Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved July 30, 2015.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Population of capital city and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 1955. New York: Statistical Office of the United Nations.
- ^ "Chronology". Tokyo, 1955-1970: a New Avant-garde. New York: Museum of Modern Art. 2012. ISBN 978-0-87070-834-3.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Timeline of Ramen Development", Lucky Peach, January 2015
- ^ Christopher P. Hood (2006). "Chronology". Shinkansen: From Bullet Train to Symbol of Modern Japan. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-134-36089-5.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Garden Search: Japan". London: Botanic Gardens Conservation International. Retrieved July 30, 2015.
- ^ "Japan". Europa World Year Book. Europa Publications. 2004. ISBN 978-1-85743-254-1.
- ^ "Japanese Mayors". City Mayors.com. London: City Mayors Foundation. Retrieved July 30, 2015.
- ^ "Tokyo elects Yuriko Koike as first female governor", BBC News, 1 August 2016
This article incorporates information from the Japanese Wikipedia.
Bibliography[]
- William Henry Overall, ed. (1870). "Jeddo". Dictionary of Chronology. London: William Tegg. hdl:2027/uc2.ark:/13960/t9m32q949 – via HathiTrust.
- Christine Guth (1996). Art of Edo Japan: The Artist and the City 1615-1868. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-16413-8.
- Julia Meech and Jane Oliver, ed. (2008). Designed for Pleasure: The World of Edo Japan in Prints and Paintings, 1680-1860. Asia Society and Japanese Art Society of America. ISBN 978-0-295-98786-6.
- Stephen Mansfield (2009). Tokyo: a Cultural History. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-972965-4.
- Roman Adrian Cybriwsky (2011). Historical Dictionary of Tokyo (2nd ed.). Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-7489-3. + Chronology
- Alisa Freedman (2011). Tokyo in Transit: Japanese Culture on the Rails and Road. Stanford University Press. ISBN 978-0-8047-7145-0.
- "Timeline". Tokyo (10th ed.). Lonely Planet. 2015. ISBN 978-1-74360-032-0.
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