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*[[Ryukyuan embassy]] journeys to Edo.
*[[Ryukyuan embassy]] journeys to Edo.
*Treaty of Nanjing ends the First Opium War.
*Treaty of Nanjing ends the First Opium War.
*The shogunate issues an edict instructing local authorities to provide food and fuel for foreign ships and to encourage them to leave as soon as possible, a considerable softening of policy from earlier edicts which demanded the all-out repulsion of foreign vessels.
===Births and Deaths of 1842===
===Births and Deaths of 1842===
