1555 Nobunaga begins rise to power 1582 Nobunaga assassinated by underling had consolidated 1 3 of Japan 1588 Hideyoshi establishes sword hunts among peasants 1591 Hideyoshi controls all of Japan 1592 Hideyoshi s first invasion attempt in Korea 1597 Hideyoshi s second invasion attempt in Korea 1598 Hideyoshi s death 1600 Battle of Sekigahara 1603 1605 Ieyasu has emperor grant him title of shogun Ieyasu retires puts son Hidetada on throne rules behind the scenes Francis Xavier kicked out of Japan 1610 1614 Battle of Osaka Castle 1615 1616 1623 1624 Ieyasu s death English abandon Japanese trade Spanish abandon Japanese trade bakufu provide funds for Sages Hall to honor Confucius Iemitsu regularizes attendance system trade out of Nagasaki banned Shimabara Rebellion last Portuguese leave Japan Dutch move to Dejima prohibition of Christian books 1645 Iemitsu elevates Nikko shrine to level of Ise 1646 1665 1690 Hayashi academy recognized as shogunate university temples guarantee each person s religious loyalty secular scholars Confucian ideals to support state Engelbert Kaempfer visits Japan 5 6 of Japan s population in cities 100k Edo population 1m likely largest in world bans on Christianity begin inconsistently enforced until 1665 commoners required to register with Buddhist temple Iemitsu issues edicts restricting interaction of Japanese with foreigners Tokugawa Tsunayoshi 1630 1633 1633 1635 1637 1638 1639 1640 1642 1691 1692 1700 sonno joi actual event of 47 Ronin 1703 1709 prohibition on Christian books relaxed 1720 1780 Russians reach Siberia 1786 Tenmei famine worst winter in decades starvation 1792 Russians ask bakufu for trade Hokkaido 1804 Russians ask again for trade Nagasaki 1825 Aizawa Yasushi s New Theses Shinron bakufu any ship in Japanese waters shot at bakufu relax policy of shoot first questions later 1842 1853 Perry s first trip to Japan bakufu asks for daimyo s opinions on visit 1854 Perry returns Americans allowed stopover not trade 1856 Townsend Harris takes residence as American consul 1858 1859 1862 Katsu Kaishu bakufu signs treaty for trade with West bakufu executes Yoshida for trying to leave with Perry alternate attendance policy relaxed Choshu punished for attack on bakufu 1864 1865 bakufu creates foreigner 1866 Tokugawa Yoshinobu takes office 1868 emperor Meiji convinced to announce restoration Sat Cho rebels comprise provisional government hiring foreigners 1870 non samurai all commoners Iwakura Embassy 1871 1872 1873 domains abolished replaced with prefectures education made compulsory national conscription new tax system per head not village hiring foreigners 1874 riots over conscription attack on Taiwan samurai stipends made into bonds 1876