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===Births and Deaths of 1842===
 
===Births and Deaths of 1842===
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* Tenpô 12/12/24 Ryukyuan aristocrat [[Rin Seiko|Rin Seikô]] is born (d. [[1880]]).
 
* [[Abiru Eisaburo]] is born.
 
* [[Abiru Eisaburo]] is born.
 
* [[Ryutei Tanehiko|Ryûtei Tanehiko]] commits suicide.
 
* [[Ryutei Tanehiko|Ryûtei Tanehiko]] commits suicide.

Revision as of 03:39, 27 October 2010

Tenpô 13 (天保十三年)

Timeline of 1842

Other Events of 1842

  • Ichikawa Ebizô V is banished from Edo as a punishment for his extravagant lifestyle. He moves to Osaka.
  • Publication, begun in 1829, of Nise Murasaki Inaka Genji by Ryûtei Tanehiko, with illustrations by Utagawa Kunisada, is cut off by the authorities.
  • Ryukyuan embassy journeys to Edo.
  • 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.
  • The shogunate institutes the Tenpô Reforms.
    • Over 4,000 illegal prostitutes of Edo are arrested and moved to the Yoshiwara.
    • Kabuki theatres are required to move to Saruwaka-chô. No major kabuki theatre would operate outside of that district for thirty years.

Births and Deaths of 1842

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