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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. |
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− | ==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]]. |
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| ===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). |
| *1839/11/9 [[Kano Washio|Kanô Washio]], Shinsengumi corporal, is born (d. 1902). | | *1839/11/9 [[Kano Washio|Kanô Washio]], Shinsengumi corporal, is born (d. 1902). |
| *[[Aridoshi Kango|Aridôshi Kango]], member of the Shinsengumi, is born (d. 1869). | | *[[Aridoshi Kango|Aridôshi Kango]], member of the Shinsengumi, is born (d. 1869). |
− | *[[Ichikawa Danjuro IX|Ichikawa Danjûrô IX]] is born (d. [[1903]]).
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| *[[Iesato Tsuguo]], member of the [[Roshigumi|Rôshigumi]], is born (d. 1863). | | *[[Iesato Tsuguo]], member of the [[Roshigumi|Rôshigumi]], is born (d. 1863). |
| *[[Kamishiro Jinnosuke]], member of the Rôshigumi, is born. | | *[[Kamishiro Jinnosuke]], member of the Rôshigumi, is born. |