Being that I was born on the other side of the world I find my knowledge of Japanese History completely inadequate, certainly nowhere near enough to get everyone else's little in-facts let alone feel confident enough to write anything.
So I've decided to create a thread that can be used as a reference for people who aren't so history savvy at all.
That means this thread will contain everything Japan no matter how small an event is it will be in here, sorted by date.
In the beginning I expect it will be full of gaps, what other significant events happened during these years? If you have anything to add leave a comment and list your source.
Dates and snippets can go as far back or as far forward as you want, start anywhere you want and be factual.

If you can please use the format below when submitting an entry.
YY/MM/DD
Japanese Date system (If applies)
Snippet relevant only to this year

For example:
1629, December 22
Kan'ei 6, 8th day of the 11th month

Go-Mizunoo abdicated.
The emperor renounced the throne in favor of his daughter, Okiko.
The priests of the "Purple Robe Incident" went into exile.
Okiko became the Empress Meishō.


Once more is up I'm going to separate it by eras or every 50 years.
Nothing after 1900 please.
 
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Japan Timeline
History Of Japan Timeline



250

The Kofun Period Began

538
The Kofun Period Ended
The Asuka Period Began

684, November 29
Hakuhou Nankai earthquake Magnitude 8.4

710
The Asuka Period Began
The Nara Period Began

745, June 5
Minoh Earthquake Magnitude 7.9

774

Kūkai, the inventor of the kana, the founder of Shingon buddhism also known posthumously as Kōbō-Daishi The Grand Master Who Propagated the Buddhist Teaching is born at Zentsūji, Sanuki Province.

794
The Nara Period Ended
The Heian Period Began

824-834
Sennyū-ji was founded in the early Heian period
835
Kūkai dies at Mount Kōya at age 61.

840, June 11
Jōwa 7, 8th day of the 5th month

Former-Emperor Junna died at the age of 55.

869, July 13
869 Jogan Sanriku earthquake Magnitude 8.9 resulted in a tsunami and caused extensive flooding of the Sendai plain, destroying the town of Tagajō.

885, February 6
Atsuhito or Ono-tei, later known as Emperor Daigo, the 60th emperor of Japan, son of Emperor Uda and Fujiwara no Taneko was born.

897, July 6
Kanpyō 9, 3rd day of the 7th month

In the 10th year of Emperor Uda's reign he abdicated.
Atsuhito or Ono-tei became Emperor Daigo.

930, October 23
Emperor Daigo, the 60th emperor of Japan died.

1180, August 6
The 14th day of 7th month of Jishō 4
Emperor Go-Toba 82nd emperor of Japan is born.

1185
The Heian Period Ended
The Kamakura Period Began

1192
Go-Shirakawa died and the first shogunate was established by Minamoto no Yoritomo, and the emperor became a figurehead

1221
Jōkyū War, also known as the Jōkyū Disturbance or the Jōkyū Rebellion fought in Japan between the forces of Retired Emperor Go-Toba and those of the Hōjō clan, regents of the Kamakura shogunate, whom the retired emperor was trying to overthrow.

1293, May 27
1293 Kamakura earthquake Magnitude 7.3, the death toll has been reported as 23,024.

1333
The Kamakura Period Ended
The Kenmu Restoration Began

1336
The Kenmu Restoration Ended
The Muromachi Period Began (Ashikaga)

1361, August 3
Shōhei earthquake Magnitude 8.3 triggered a tsunami.

1494
Saitō Dōsan also known as Saitō Toshimasa also known as the Viper of Mino is born.

1498, September 20
1498 Meiō Nankaidō earthquake Magnitude 8.6 Occurred off the coast of Nankai, Japan, at about 08:00 local time on 20 September 1498. It triggered a large tsunami. The death toll associated with this event is uncertain, but 31,000 casualties were reported.

1521
Rokkaku Yoshikata, son of Sadayori; founder of Sasaki-ryū of martial arts is born.

1534, June 23
Oda Nobunaga is born

1537, March 17
Toyotomi Hideyoshi was born

1537, December 5
Ashikaga Yoshiaki 15th shogun of the Ashikaga shogunate was born.

1538
Kitsuno future concubine of Japanese daimyō Oda Nobunaga was born into the third generation of the prosperous and influential Ikoma clan.

1543
Takeda Shingen captured Nagakubo castle

1544, September 27
Takenaka Shigeharu was born

1544
Takeda Shingen captured Nagakubo castle, Kojinyama

1545
Takeda Shingen took Takatō and Ryūgasaki

1546
Nene known as One or Nei or Nemoji or Kōdai-in with the childhood name of Sugihara Yasuko future Samurai wife of Toyotomi Hideyoshi was born.
Takeda Shingenhe took Uchiyama and won the Battle of Odaihara

1547
Takeda Shingen took Shika.
Sanada Awanokami Masayuki, Japanese Sengoku period lord and daimyō was born.

1548
Takeda Shingen defeated Ogasawara Nagatoki in the Battle of Shiojiritoge.

1549
Lady No, daughter of Saitō Dōsan was married to Oda Nobunaga
The Rokkaku eliminated a paper merchant's guild in Mino under penalty of confiscation, Then they declared a free market in its place.

1550
Takeda Shingen took Fukashi.

1552
Lady Saigō also known as Oai, first consort and trusted confidante of Tokugawa Ieyasu was born at Nishikawa Castle.

1553
Takeda Shingen captured Katsurao, Wada, Takashima and Fukuda

1554
Takeda Shingen took Fukushima, Kannomine, Matsuo and Yoshioka.

1555
Rumors began to circulate that Saitō Yoshitatsu was not in fact Dōsan's son, it was said that he was Yorinari's.
1556, May 28
Saitō Dōsan died in the Battle of Nagara-gawa against forces led by his own adopted son, Saitō Yoshitatsu.

1557
Nobutada, son of Oda Nobunaga and concubine Kitsuno was born.

1558
Toyotomi Hideyoshi joined the Oda clan, headed by Oda Nobunaga.
Oda Nobukatsu second son of Oda Nobunaga and concubine Kitsuno was born.

1559
Tokuhime also known as Gotokuhime or Lady Toku daughter of Oda Nobunaga and concubine Kitsuno was born.
Oda Nobunaga protected Suzuki Shigeteru in the Siege of Terabe.

1560
Imagawa Yoshimoto gathered an army of 40,000 men and started his march toward Kyoto, with the pretext of aiding the frail Ashikaga shogunate.
The Matsudaira clan of Mikawa Province also joined Yoshimoto's forces

1561
An alliance was forged between Oda Nobunaga and Matsudaira Motoyasu later known as Tokugawa Ieyasu, despite the decades-old hostility between the two clans.
Nobunaga also formed an alliance with Takeda Shingen through the marriage of his daughter to Shingen's son.
A similar relationship was forged when Nobunaga's sister Oichi married Azai Nagamasa of Ōmi Province.
Hideyoshi married Nene known as One who was Asano Nagakatsu's daughter.
In Mino, Saitō Yoshitatsu died suddenly of illness, and was succeeded by his son, Saitō Tatsuoki.
Nobunaga moved his base to Komaki Castle and started his campaign in Mino at the Battle of Moribe.

1563
To seal an alliance between Tokugawa Ieyasu and Oda Nobunaga 5 year old daughter Tokuhime was married to Tokugawa Ieyasu's five-year-old son Nobuyasu.
Takeda Shingen allied with Hōjō Ujiyasu, he captured Matsuyama Castle in Musashi Province

1564
Toyotomi Hideyoshi managed to convince with liberal bribes, a number of Mino warlords to desert the Saitō clan.

1565
Takeda Shingen took Kuragano and Minowa Castle

1567
Nobunaga's conquest of Mino is completed with the successful siege of Inabayama Castle.
Nobunaga arranged for Oichi, then twenty years old, to marry Nagamasa.

1568
Ashikaga Yoshiaki went to Gifu to ask Nobunaga to start a campaign toward Kyoto.
Led by Rokkaku Yoshikata, the Rokkaku clan refused to recognize Ashikaga Yoshiaki as shogun and was ready to go to war. In response, Nobunaga launched a rapid attack, driving the Rokkaku clan out of their castles.
The Rokakku were defeated by Oda Nobunaga on his march to Kyoto.
Oda Nobunaga's armies entered Kyoto in 1568, re-establishing the Muromachi Shogunate under the puppet shogun Ashikaga Yoshiaki to begin the Azuchi–Momoyama period.
Oda Nobunaga sets Ashikaga Yoshiaki up as shogun.

1569, June 4
Lady Chacha later known as Yodo-dono or Yodogimi was born
Saji Kazunari first husband of Oeyo is born.

1570, Summer
Nagamasa betrayed Nobunaga and went to war with him on behalf of the Asakura family.

1570
Rokakku were absolutely defeated by Shibata Katsuie.
Ohatsu also known as Ohatsu-no-kata, second daughter of Azai Nagamasa and Oichi is born.

1571, October
Ikkō monks defeat Oda Nobunaga
Oda Nobunaga destroys Enryaku-ji killing "monks, laymen, women and children" in the process. The whole mountainside was a great slaughterhouse, and the sight was one of unbearable horror."

1571
Saigō Yoshikatsu was killed at the Battle of Takehiro, fighting the invading forces of the Takeda clan led by Akiyama Nobutomo

1573
The Muromachi Period Ended (Ashikaga)
The Azuchi–Momoyama Period Began

1573, August 27
Yoshiaki is deposed
Ashikaga shogunate ended when Oda Nobunaga drove Ashikaga Yoshiaki out of Kyoto.
Yoshiaki's Nijō residence is built.
Oeyo is born.

1573, January 25
Battle of Mikatagahara, Tōtōmi Province, Japan was one of the most famous battles of Takeda Shingen's campaigns.
The Battle of Mikatagahara was one of Tokugawa Ieyasu's worst defeats.

1573, April
Takeda Shingen dies of esophageal cancer.
Nobunaga successfully destroyed the Asakura and Azai clans.

1575
Nobunaga moved to the partially completed Azuchi Castle.
Battle of Nagashino near Nagashino Castle on the plain of Shitarabara in the Mikawa Province of Japan.
Decisive Oda-Tokugawa Victory, Takeda siege fails.

1576
Oda Nobunaga supported the establishment of the first Christian church in Kyoto, although he never converted to Christianity.

1577
Hashiba Hideyoshi later known as Toyotomi Hideyoshi was ordered to expand west to confront the Mori clan.

1579, July 6
Takenaka Shigeharu was died.

1580
Nobunaga forced the Ishiyama Hongan-ji to surrender

1582
Honnō-ji incident, a coup was attempted executed by Nobunaga's vassal, Akechi Mitsuhide, Nobunaga was assassinated or commited seppuku.
Shibata Katsuie and Hideyoshi became leader of two seperate factions
Nobunaga destroyed the Takeda clan.
Nobunaga's former sandal bearer Hashiba Hideyoshi later known as Toyotomi Hideyoshi invaded Bitchū Province, laying siege to Takamatsu Castle.
Oichi married to Shibata Katsuie

1583
Katsuie was defeated by Hideyoshi in the Battle of Shizugatake, forcing him to retreat to his home at Kitanosho Castle.
Shibata Katsuie and Oichi suicide.
Oeyo married Saji Kazunari

1584
Oeyo divorced Saji Kazunari.
Miyamoto Musashi founder of the Hyōhō Niten Ichi-ryū or Niten-ryū style of swordsmanship and author of The Book of Five Rings is born.

1585
Hideyoshi was appointed to the post of Imperial Regent (Kampaku)
Sanada Awanokami Masayuki became the head of Sanada clan, a regional house of Shinano Province, which became a vassal of the Takeda clan of Kai Province.
Sasaki Kojirō also known as Sasaki Ganryū is born.

1586, January 18
Tensho or Ise Bay earthquake Magnitude 7.9 Some islands in Ise Bay reportedly disappeared.

1587
Kyōgoku Takatsugu married his cousin Ohatsu

1588
Ashikaga Yoshiaki officially resigns from his post as Shogun.

1589
Yodo-dono give birth to Toyotomi Tsurumatsu

1591
Yodo-dono's son, Toyotomi Tsurumatsu died

1592
Toyotomi Hidekatsu married Oeyo
Toyotomi Hidekatsu died
Oeyo gives birth to Toyotomi Sadako

1593
Toyotomi Hideyori son of Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Yodo-dono
Ohatsu gives birth to Kyōgoku Takatsugu

1594
Hideyoshi, and Hideyori, Yodo-dono moved to Fushimi Castle

1596, 29 June
Emperor Go-Mizunoo, 108th Emperor of Japan born.

1597, May 26
Senhime or Lady Sen, eldest daughter of the shogun Tokugawa Hidetada and his wife Oeyo is born.

1598
Hideyoshi died
Yodo-dono moved to Osaka Castle with her son Hideyori and plotted the restoration of the Toyotomi clan.
Rokkaku Yoshikata, son of Sadayori; founder of Sasaki-ryū of martial arts died.

1599, August 1
Tama-hime second daughter of the Tokugawa Hidetada and his wife Oeyo is born.

1600, October 21
Keichō 5, 15th day of the 9th month
The Battle of Sekigahara and the unofficial beginning of the Tokugawa bakufu.

1601, June 12
Katsu-hime third daughter of the Tokugawa Hidetada and his wife Oeyo is born.
Tamahime married to Maeda Toshitsune

1602, August 25
Hatsu-hime fourth daughter of the Tokugawa Hidetada and his wife Oeyo is born.

1603
The Azuchi–Momoyama Period Ended
The Edo (Tokugawa) Period Began
Seven years old Senhime was married to the successor to the Toyotomi clan, Toyotomi Hideyori and lived with him in Osaka Castle along with his mother, Lady Yodo.
Toyotomi Sadako married Kujo Yukiie

1604, August 12
Iemitsu son of the Tokugawa Hidetada and his wife Oeyo is born.

1605
Tokugawa Hidetada becomes shogun.

1605, February 3
1605 Keichō Nankaidō earthquake Magnitude 7.9 occurred at about 20:00 local time and triggered a devastating tsunami that resulted in thousands of deaths in the Nankai and Tōkai regions of Japan.

1606, June 12
Tadanaga second son of the Tokugawa Hidetada and his wife Oeyo is born.

1607, November 23
Matsu-hime known as Tokugawa Masako fifth daughter of the Shogun Tokugawa Hidetada and his wife Oeyo is born.

1607
Kyōgoku Tadataka married Hatsu-hime

1608
Toyotomi Kunimatsu son of Tadatoki and Senhime is born.

1611
Matsudaira Tadanao married Katsuhime

1611, May 9
Keichō 16

In the 26th year of Go-Yōzei-tennō 's reign, he abdicated
The reign of Emperor Go-Mizunoo began.
Emperor Go-Mizunoo was aged 16

1611, September 27
1611 Aizu earthquake Magnitude 6.9 According to official estimated report, more than 3,700 human fatalities. Aizuwakamatsu Castle, many temples, and 20,000 houses collapsed in the damaged areas.

1611, December 2
1611 Keicho Sanriku earthquake Magnitude 8.1 the epicenter was off the Sanriku coast in Iwate Prefecture.

1612, April 13
Sasaki Kojirō, who was known as "The Demon of the Western Provinces dies in a duel against Miyamoto Musashi.

1613
Kametsuru-hime daughter of Maeda Toshitsune and Tamahime is born.

1614
Lady Chacha known as Yodo-dono or Yodogimi led a Anti-Shogunate rebellion.
Tokugawa Ieyasu laid siege to defested Toyotomi Hideyori and destroyed Osaka Castle by setting fire to it, and then he returned for the winter to Edo.
A great bell for the Daibutsu Temple in Kyoto was cast.

1614, November 26
Keichō 19, 25th day of the 10th month

There was a strong earthquake.


1615
Keichō 20

Tokugawa Ieyasu broke the truce and laid siege to Osaka Castle
Osaka Summer Battle begins
Yodo-dono and her son Hideyori commited suicide in the Siege of Osaka
Toyotomi legacy defunct
Toyotomi Hideyori and his mother Yodo-dono suicide, Osaka Castle burned, Toyotomi Kunimatsu was executed and Senhime returned to Tokugawa Family.

1616
Ieyasu remarried Senhime to Honda Tadatoki, a grandson of Honda Tadakatsu.
Maeda Mitsutaka, son of Maeda Toshitsune and Tamahime is born.
1616 January 6
Genna 2, 17th day of the 4th month
Ieyasu died at Suruga

1617
Maeda Toshitsugu, son of Maeda Toshitsune and Tamahime is born.

1617, September 25
Genna 3, 26th day of the 8th month)
Former-Emperor Go-Yōzei died. He is buried at the North Fukakusa Burial Mound.

1618
Katsuhime, daughter of Honda Tadatoki and Senhime is born.

1619
Kochiyo, son of Honda Tadatoki and Senhime is born.

1620
Genna 6

Tokugawa Masako, daughter of Shogun Hidetada, entered the palace as a consort of the emperor and married Emperor Go-Mizunoo.

1620 April 2
Genna 6, 30th day of the 2nd month

Severe fire in Kyoto

1620 April 6
Genna 6, 4th day of the 3rd month

Severe fires in Kyoto

1621
Kochiyo son of Honda Tadatoki and Senhime died
Imperial Prince Takahito son of Go-Mizunoo and Tokugawa Masako is born.
Tomihime daughter of Maeda Toshitsune and Tamahime is born.

1623
Tokugawa Iemitsu, son of Hidetada, came to the court of the emperor where he was made Shogun.
Iemitsu married Takaatsukasa Takako

1624
Nene first wife of Hideyoshi died and was posthumously given the name of Hikari no Tenshi or "Angel of Light" and entombed at the Hikari no Shrine in Kyoto.
First Princess Okiko later known as Empress Meishō, daughter of Emperor Go-Mizunoo and Tokugawa Masako is born.

1625
Second Princess(Onna-ni-no-miya?), daughter of Emperor Go-Mizunoo and Tokugawa Masako is born.

1626
Oeyo (then known as Sūgen'in) died while Hidetada and Iemitsu were in Kyoto.
Oeyo received the posthumous court rank of Juichii.
Honda Tadatoki husband of Senhime died of tuberculosis.
Recently widowed Senhime cut her hair short and became a Buddhist nun, taking the name Tenjuin, moved back to Edo.
Prince Sukehito, son of Emperor Go-Mizunoo and Tokugawa Masako is born.

1627
Kan'ei 6

The "Purple Robe Incident" The Emperor was accused of having bestowed honorific purple garments to more than ten priests despite the shogun's edict which banned them for two years. The shogunate intervened making the bestowing of the garments invalid. The priests which had been honored by the emperor were sent into exile by the bakufu.

1628
Imperial Prince Takahito died.
Prince Waka, son of Emperor Go-Mizunoo and Tokugawa Masako is born.

1629
Princess Akiko, daughter of Emperor Go-Mizunoo and Tokugawa Masako is born.

1629, December 22
Kan'ei 6, 8th day of the 11th month

Go-Mizunoo abdicated.
The emperor renounced the throne in favor of his daughter, Okiko, on the same day that the priests of the "Purple Robe Incident" went into exile.
Okiko became the Empress Meishō.

1632
Princess Yoshiko, daughter of Emperor Go-Mizunoo and Tokugawa Masako is born.

1633
Princess Kiku, daughter of Emperor Go-Mizunoo and Tokugawa Masako is born.

1633, April 20
Tsuguhito-shinnō also known as Emperor Go-Kōmyō, son of Emperor Go-Mizunoo and Fujiwara no Mitsuko is born.

1641
Kan'ei 19

Prince Tsuguhito was named heir; and he was given the title of Crown Prince.

1643
Kan'ei 20, 29th day of the 9th month

The Empress Meishō ceded her throne to her brother by abdicating; and the succession was received by her younger brother, Prince Tsuguhito.

1643, November 14
Kan'ei 20, 3rd day of the 10th month

Prince Tsuguhito now Go-Kōmyō accepted the title of Emperor and ascended to the throne at age 11.

1653
Jōō 2, 12th day of the 8th month

A violent fire destroyed a large part of the imperial palace and many temples which were nearby. Shortly thereafter, several girls, aged 12–14 years, were imprisoned for arson involving this fire as well as other fires in Kyoto.

1654, October 30
Jōō 3, 20th day of the 9th month

The emperor died. He was buried at Sennyū-ji on the 15th day of the 10th month. There is a probability that the emperor died of smallpox.

1680, September 11
Enpō 8, 19th day of the 8th month

Emperor Go-Mizunoo died

1703, December 31
1703 Genroku earthquake Magnitude 8.0 shook Edo and killed an estimated 2,300 people then resulted in a tsunami which hit the coastal areas of the Boso Peninsula and Sagami Bay. The tsunami was reported to have caused more than 100,000 fatalities.

1707, October 28
1707 Hōei earthquake Magnitude 8.6 struck both the Nankaidō and Tokai regions, causing moderate to severe damage throughout southwestern Honshu, Shikoku and southeastern Kyūshū.

1771, April 24
1771 Great Yaeyama Tsunami Magnitude 7.4 caused by the Yaeyama Great Earthquake at about 8 A.M. on April 24. 13,486 people (including 9,313 in Yaeyama Islands (8,815 in Ishigaki Island), 2,548 in Miyako Islands and 1,625 in other areas) were confirmed to be dead or missing and more than 3,000 houses were destroyed. The height of the tsunami was over 40 meters at Ishigaki Island, up to a maximum of 85.4 meters in the village called Miyara. In Tarama, estimated tsunami runup height was approximately 18 meters. To this day, boulders reportedly launched by the tsunami (called "tsunami stones") remain in the northwestern highlands of Miyakojima.

1792, May 21
1792 Unzen earthquake and tsunami Magnitude 6.4 caused by volcanic activity of Mount Unzen in the Shimabara Peninsula Nagasaki. It killed 15,000 people altogether, due in large part to a tsunami that was triggered by the collapse of nearby Mount Mayuyama's southern flank into the bay. The incident is also referred to with the phrase 'Shimabara erupted, Higo affected', as many people in Higo, (Kumamoto, located 20 km away across the Ariake Sea) were also killed by the resulting tsunami, which then bounced back to hit Shimabara again.

1828, December 18
1828 Echigo Sanjō earthquake Magnitude 6.9
21,134 houses and buildings were damaged, and 1,204 of them burned down. There were 1,559 human fatalities, and 2,666 injured people in the affected area.

1847, May 8
1847 Zenkōji earthquake Magnitude 7.3 In the central area of Nagano, many buildings collapsed, including Zenkōji temple. The earthquake triggered a complex variety of resulting disasters, which included fires, landslides, and flooding due to the formation and subsequent collapse of a "dam" made of debris from the collapsed buildings. According to the confirmed official report, the death toll throughout the region reached at least 8,600. 21,000 houses were damaged and 3,400 burned, and an additional 44,000 homes were damaged by the landslides in the area.

1854, July 9
1854 Iga Ueno earthquake Magnitude 7.23 According to the official confirmed report, 2,576 houses and buildings were damaged, with 995 human fatalities and 994 injures in the affected area.

1854, December 23
1854 Ansei-Tōkai earthquake Magnitude 8.4 the quake struck primarily in the Tōkai region, but destroyed houses as far away as in Edo. The accompanying tsunami caused damage along the entire coast from the Bōsō Peninsula in modern-day Chiba prefecture to Tosa province (modern-day Kōchi Prefecture)

1854, December 24
Ansei-Nankai earthquake Magnitude 8.4 Over 10,000 people from the Tōkai region down to Kyushu were killed.

1855, November 11
Ansei Edo earthquake Magnitude 6.9 One hundred and twenty earthquakes and tremors in total were felt in Edo in 1854–55. The great earthquake struck after 10 o'clock in the evening; roughly 30 aftershocks ensued, continuing until dawn. Records from the time indicate 6,641 deaths inside the city and 2,759 injuries; much of the city was destroyed by fire, leading many people to stay in rural inns. Aftershocks continued for twenty days.

1858, April 9
Hietsu earthquake Magnitude 7.0 The earthquake is estimated to have killed 200–300 people. It also caused the Mount Tonbi Landslide and blocked the upper reaches of the Jōganji River.

1867, February 3
14-year-old Prince Mutsuhito succeeded his father, Emperor Kōmei, to the Chrysanthemum Throne as the 122nd emperor.

1867, November 9
The last Shogun Tokugawa Yoshinobu tendered his resignation to the Emperor, and formally stepped down ten days later.

1868
The Edo (Tokugawa) Period Ended
The Meiji Era Began

1871
The han were replaced with prefectures.

1872, March 18
1872 Hamada earthquake Magnitude 7.1 according to the official confirmed report, 4506 houses were damaged by the earthquake, 230 houses were burned, 551 people were killed, and landslides destroyed 6567 homes in the affected area. This quake occurred at 16:40 local time.

1881
The Kempeitai, Military Police Corps arm of the Imperial Japanese Army was established by a decree called the Kempei Ordinance.

1889, July 28
1889 Kumamoto earthquake Magnitude 6.3 First major earthquake after the establishment of the Seismological Society of Japan in 1880.

1891, October 28
1891 Mino–Owari earthquake Magnitude 8.0 A large earthquake that struck the former provinces of Mino and Owari in the Nōbi Plain area during the Meiji period in Japan. It is also referred to as the Nōbi Earthquake or the Great Nōbi Earthquake

1894, June 20
Meiji Tokyo earthquake Magnitude 6.6 at 14:04 local time. It affected downtown Tokyo and neighboring Kanagawa prefecture, especially the cities of Kawasaki and Yokohama. The death toll was 31 killed and 157 injured.

1894, October 22
1894 Shōkai earthquake Magnitude 7.0 According to the official confirmed report, 14,118 houses and buildings were damaged and 2,148 were burned. There were 726 human fatalities and 8,403 people injured in the damaged area. A large-scale fire broke out in Sakata, and around the Shonai plain area, many instances of cracked earth, sinking ground, sand boils, and fountains were observed.

1896, June 15
Meiji-Sanriku earthquake Magnitude 8.5 occurred off the coast of Sanriku in Iwate Prefecture, and caused a tsunami of 25 m (82 ft) to strike 35 minutes after the quake, destroying hundreds of houses and killed over 22,000 people. Tsunami were also observed as far away as Hawaii and in California.
 
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