1624

Genna 10 (元和十年)

Timeline of 1624

• 1624/9 Construction work on the Nishimaru of Edo castle is completed.

Other Events of 1624

• The Dutch build Casteel Zeelandia on Taiwan.
• Fifty Christians are executed in Edo.
• The Nakamura-za opens as the first licensed kabuki theater in Edo.
• Satsuma han bans Ryukyuans from taking Japanese-sounding names, or wearing Japanese clothes.
• Satsuma bans people from other provinces (i.e. Japanese from outside Satsuma) from traveling to Ryûkyû.
• Shogunate severs ties with Spanish and expels them from Japan.
• Korean embassy journeys to Edo.

Births and Deaths

• Itakura Katsushige, Kyoto shoshidai, dies (b. 1542).
• Koxinga, Ming loyalist rebel/pirate leader, is born (d. 1662).

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