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==Timeline of 1646==
 
==Timeline of 1646==
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*Shôhô 2/12 (Jan 1646) - [[Chinese in Nagasaki|Chinese merchant]] Lin Gao<!--林高--> delivers two letters to ''[[Nagasaki bugyo|Nagasaki bugyô]]'' [[Yamazaki Gonpachiro|Yamazaki Gonpachirô]]<!--山崎権八郎-->, from [[Cui Zhi]]<!--崔芝-->, on behalf of Ming loyalist [[Zheng Zhilong]]<!--鄭芝龍-->, requesting aid in pushing out the [[Qing Dynasty|Manchus]] and restoring the [[Ming Dynasty]]. Nothing comes of it.
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*1646/9 - [[Tokugawa Yorinobu]] of [[Kishu han|Kishû han]], uncle to Shogun [[Tokugawa Iemitsu]], receives a request for aid in restoring the Ming.
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*1646/10 - Ming loyalists led by Zheng Zhilong and his son [[Zheng Chenggong]] (Coxinga) lose [[Fuzhou]], their last foothold on the Chinese mainland.
    
==Other Events of 1646==
 
==Other Events of 1646==
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*The English Civil War, begun in [[1642]], comes to an end.
 
*Ban on ''onna-[[kabuki]]'' is reissued.
 
*Ban on ''onna-[[kabuki]]'' is reissued.
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*Members of the [[Sanshikan]] are no longer required to serve three-year terms as hostages in [[Satsuma han|Satsuma]] (end of a system put into place in [[1630]]).
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*Special box seats with bamboo blinds are installed at all the Edo kabuki theatres, allowing high-ranking samurai and others to visit discreetly, without being seen.
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*Shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu restores the practice of sending shogunal envoys to [[Ise Shrine]] to make offerings to the gods.
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*The [[Urasenke]] and [[Omotesenke]] schools of [[tea ceremony]] are founded.
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===Births and Deaths===
 
===Births and Deaths===
 
*[[Date Shigezane]] dies (b. [[1568]]).
 
*[[Date Shigezane]] dies (b. [[1568]]).
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*The monk [[Kakugyo|Kakugyô]] dies (b. [[1541]]).
 
*[[Sakata Tojuro I|Sakata Tôjûrô I]] is born (d. [[1709]]).
 
*[[Sakata Tojuro I|Sakata Tôjûrô I]] is born (d. [[1709]]).
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*[[Tokugawa Tsunayoshi]] is born (d. [[1709]]).
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*Poet [[Wang Siren]] dies (b. [[1575]]).
 
*[[Yagyu Munenori|Yagyû Munenori]] dies (b. [[1571]]).
 
*[[Yagyu Munenori|Yagyû Munenori]] dies (b. [[1571]]).
  
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