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*1839/12 Reconstruction is completed at Edo castle, following the destruction of the Nishi-no-maru the previous year.
*1839/12 Reconstruction is completed at Edo castle, following the destruction of the Nishi-no-maru the previous year.
==Other Events==
==Other Events of 1839==
*[[Jirokichi]] and six other castaways are rescued by an American ship after six months at sea and brought to Honolulu. Though perhaps not the first Japanese to ever travel to [[Hawaii]], this represents the earliest documented instance of which historians today are aware.
*Louis Daguerre invents the ''daguerrotype'' in Paris.
*Sir John Frederick William Herschel coins the word "[[photography]]."
*[[Mizuno Tadakuni]] issues an order banning the sale of "Ryukyu goods" (by agents of [[Satsuma han]], reselling both Ryukyuan and Chinese goods obtained from [[Ryukyu Kingdom|Ryukyu]]) in [[Nagasaki]] for ten years. This, in response to declining Chinese trade activity at Nagasaki, and a desire to impel Chinese merchants, illegally trading at Satsuma, to return to Nagasaki.
*[[Shieikan]] dôjô is established in Ichigaya, Edo, by [[Kondo Shusuke|Kondô Shûsuke]].
*[[Shieikan]] dôjô is established in Ichigaya, Edo, by [[Kondo Shusuke|Kondô Shûsuke]].
===Births and Deaths===
===Births and Deaths===
*1839/5/5 [[Echigo Saburo|Echigo Saburô]], member of the [[Shinsengumi]], is born (d. 1892).
*1839/5/5 [[Echigo Saburo|Echigo Saburô]], member of the [[Shinsengumi]], is born (d. 1892).
*[[Kamishiro Jinnosuke]], member of the Rôshigumi, is born.
*[[Kamishiro Jinnosuke]], member of the Rôshigumi, is born.
*[[Nagakura Shinpachi]], Shinsengumi captain, is born (d. 1915).
*[[Nagakura Shinpachi]], Shinsengumi captain, is born (d. 1915).
*Painter [[Nantenbo|Nantenbô]] is born (d. 1925).
*[[Takasugi Shinsaku]], leader of the [[Kiheitai]], is born (d. 1867).
*[[Takasugi Shinsaku]], leader of the [[Kiheitai]], is born (d. 1867).
*[[Takechi Zuizan]], [[Tosa han|Tosa]] Loyalist, is born (d. 1867).
*[[Takechi Zuizan]], [[Tosa han|Tosa]] Loyalist, is born (d. 1867).
