*The [[Dutch East India Company]] (VOC) imports a pair of camels into Japan and parades them from Nagasaki up to Edo.
*The [[Dutch East India Company]] (VOC) imports a pair of camels into Japan and parades them from Nagasaki up to Edo.
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*Shogunal territory in [[Ezo]] is returned to [[Matsumae han]], and assimilation policies towards the [[Ainu]] are reversed - Ainu are now encouraged to be less Japanese; this in response to the lessening threat from [[Russia]].
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*[[Ino Tadataka|Inô Tadataka's]] ''Dai nihon enkai yochi zenzu'', a series of 225 maps resulting from his own thorough surveys of the archipelago, is completed and submitted to the shogunate.
===Births and Deaths===
===Births and Deaths===
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*1821/9/26 [[Arashi Rikan I]] dies.
*Geographer [[Honda Toshiaki]] dies (b. [[1744]]).
*Geographer [[Honda Toshiaki]] dies (b. [[1744]]).
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*The [[Taewongun]] is born (d. [[1898]]).
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*[[Yamagata Banto|Yamagata Bantô]] dies (b. [[1748]]).