Timeline of Nagasaki
Appearance
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Nagasaki, Japan.
Prior to 20th century
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- 12th C. - Included in the fief of Nagasaki Kotaro.[1]
- 1571 - Port of Nagasaki established; opens to foreign ships.[2]
- 1597 - 26 Christians executed.[3]
- 1614 - Suwa Shrine built.
- 1626 - Nagasaki Kunchi (shrine festival) begins.[4]
- 1634 - Megane Bridge built.
- 1637 - Shimabara Rebellion occurs near Nagasaki.[5]
- 1638 - Sannō Shrine founded.[citation needed]
- 1641 - "Dutch Confined to Dejima Island" in Nagasaki harbor.[6]
- 1855 - "Modern shipbuilding yard" established.[7]
- 1858 - Port opened to foreign trade.[8]
- 1861 - Nagasaki Shipping List and Advertiser begins publication.[9]
- 1865 - Catholic Ōura Church built.[7]
- 1876 - Saikai Shimbun (newspaper) begins publication.[9]
- 1877 - Immaculate Conception Cathedral, Nagasaki founded.
- 1887 - Population: 40,187.[10]
- 1888 - Sakamoto International Cemetery established.
- 1889 - Value of imports £1,005,367.[1]
- 1893 - Mitsubishi Nagasaki Zosensho (shipyard) active.[7]
- 1894 - Value of imports £444,839.[1]
- 1898 - Kyushu Tosu-Nogasaki railway begins operating.
20th century
- 1902 - Tōyō Hinode Shimbun (newspaper) begins publication.[citation needed]
- 1903 - Population: 151,727.[11]
- 1905
- Nagasaki Station opens.
- Nagasaki Higher Commercial School founded.[12]
- Population: 163,324.[1]
- 1915 - Nagasaki Electric Tramway begins operating.
- 1923 - Nagasaki Medical College established.[12]
- 1925 - Population: 189,071.[13]
- 1945
- August 9: Atomic bombing of Nagasaki by US forces.[14]
- Population: 142,748.[15]
- 1949 - Nagasaki University established.
- 1950 - Population: 241,805.[15]
- 1955 - Sister city relationship established with Saint Paul, United States.[16]
- 1957 - Glover house (museum) opens.
- 1959 - Nagasaki Aquarium founded.[17]
- 1972 - Sister city relationship established with Santos, Brazil.[16]
- 1974 - Population: 445,655.[18]
- 1978 - Sister city relationships established with Middelburg, Netherlands, and Porto, Portugal.[16]
- 1979 - Hitoshi Motoshima becomes mayor.
- 1980
- 1990 - January 18: 1990 Nagasaki shooting incident , targeting mayor Motoshima.
- 1995 - Iccho Itoh becomes mayor.
- 1996 - Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum built.
- 2000 - Population: 423,163.[19]
21st century
- 2001 - Nagasaki Penguin Aquarium opens.
- 2002 - Use of Nagasaki Smart Card on public transit begins.
- 2005
- Iōjima, Kōyagi, Nomozaki, Sanwa, Sotome, and Takashima become part of city.
- Nagasaki Museum of History and Culture and Nagasaki Prefectural Art Museum open.
- Sister city relationship established with Vaux-sur-Aure, France.[16]
- 2007
- April 17: 2007 Nagasaki shooting incident , fatally targeting mayor Itoh.
- April 22: Tomihisa Taue becomes mayor.
- 2010 - Population: 443,766.[20]
See also
- Nagasaki history
- Timeline of Nagasaki (in Japanese)
- List of mayors of Nagasaki
References
- ^ a b c d Britannica 1910.
- ^ Pacheco 1970.
- ^ Richard Tames (2008). "Chronology". Traveller's History of Japan (4th ed.). USA: Interlink Books. p. 243+. ISBN 978-1-56656-404-5.
- ^ Hesselink 2004.
- ^ Kenneth Henshall (2014). "Chronology". Historical Dictionary of Japan to 1945. USA: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-7872-3.
- ^ "Timeline". Japan: Memoirs of a Secret Empire. USA: Public Broadcasting Service. 2004.
- ^ a b c Schellinger 1996.
- ^ Overall 1870.
- ^ a b James L. Huffman (1997). Creating a Public: People and Press in Meiji Japan. University of Hawaii Press. ISBN 978-0-8248-1882-1.
- ^ W.N. Whitney, ed. (1889). "List of towns having population of over 10,000". Concise Dictionary of the Principal Roads, Chief Towns and Villages of Japan. Tokyo: Z.P. Maruya and Co. . hdl:2027/hvd.hnngzq.
- ^ Japan Year Book. Tokyo. 1905. hdl:2027/nyp.33433082441555.
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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ a b "Institutions in Japan: Browse by Region (Kyushu-Okinawa)". Research Access in Japanese Museums, Libraries, and Archives Resources. North American Coordinating Council on Japanese Library Resources. Retrieved July 30, 2015.
- ^ Y. Takenobu (1928). "Population of the Cities". Japan Year Book 1929. Tokyo.
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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ BBC News. "Japan Profile: Timeline". Retrieved July 30, 2015.
- ^ 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.
- ^ a b c d e "International Information: Sister City". Nagasaki City. Retrieved July 30, 2015.
- ^ a b Vernon N. Kisling, ed. (2000). "Zoological Gardens of Japan (chronological list)". Zoo and Aquarium History. USA: CRC Press. ISBN 978-1-4200-3924-5.
- ^ 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.
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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ "Japan". Europa World Year Book. Europa Publications. 2004. ISBN 978-1-85743-254-1.
- ^ "Population of Capital Cities and Cities of 100,000 or More Inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 2013. United Nations Statistics Division.
This article incorporates information from the Japanese Wikipedia.
Bibliography
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- Published in the 19th century
- G.F. Meijlan (1830). "Stad Nagasaky". In J.H. Tobias (ed.). Japan (in Dutch). Amsterdam: M. Westerman & Zoon – via Hathi Trust.
- Philipp Franz von Siebold (1841). "(Town of Nagasaki)". Manners and Customs of the Japanese, in the Nineteenth Century. London: John Murray. hdl:2027/hvd.hw26ti – via Hathi Trust.
- William Henry Overall, ed. (1870). "Nagasaki". Dictionary of Chronology. London: William Tegg. hdl:2027/uc2.ark:/13960/t9m32q949.
- John Ramsay McCulloch (1880), "Nagasaki", in Hugh G. Reid (ed.), A Dictionary, Practical, Theoretical and Historical of Commerce and Commercial Navigation, London: Longmans, Green, and Co. – via Internet Archive
- Published in the 20th century
- Engelbert Kaempfer (1906) [1727]. "Of Nagasacki". History of Japan. Vol. 2. Translated by Johann Caspar Scheuchzer [in German]. Glasgow: James MacLehose and Sons. hdl:2027/mdp.39015047659159. (first published in 1727)
- Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 19 (11th ed.). 1910. p. 151. .
- "Nagasaki (Hizen)", Handbook for Travellers in Japan (9th ed.), London: J. Murray, 1913, hdl:2027/nnc1.50290956
- T. Philip Terry (1914), "Nagasaki", Terry's Japanese Empire, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, LCCN 14005129
- Diego Pacheco (1970). "Founding of the Port of Nagasaki and its Cession to the Society of Jesus". Monumenta Nipponica. 25 (3/4): 303–323. doi:10.2307/2383539. JSTOR 2383539.
- Schellinger; Salkin, eds. (1996). "Nagasaki". International Dictionary of Historic Places: Asia and Oceania. UK: Routledge. p. 612+. ISBN 9781884964046.
- Published in the 21st century
- Reinier H. Hesselink (2004). "Two Faces of Nagasaki: The World of the Suwa Festival Screen". Monumenta Nipponica. 59 (2): 179–222. JSTOR 25066290.
- 'Hugh Cortazzi, ed. (2012). "Nagasaki". Victorians in Japan: In and Around the Treaty Ports. Bloomsbury. pp. 3–32. ISBN 978-1-78093-977-3. (first published in 1987)
- David Palmer (2016). "Nagasaki's Districts: Western Contact with Japan through the History of a City's Space". Journal of Urban History. 42.
- Geoffrey C. Gunn, World Trade Systems of the East and West: Nagasaki and the Asian Bullion Trade Networks (Leiden: Brill, 2017) ISBN 978-90-04-35855-3
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