Difference between revisions of "1857"

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Ansei 4 (安政四年)

1857/8/29 (Oct 16) - The shogunate signs a supplementary commercial treaty with Holland.
1857/9/7 (Oct 24) - The shogunate signs a supplementary commercial treaty with Russia.

Aizawa Seishisai publishes his Shinron for the first time, though it was already available in a form unauthorized by the author.
The American Legation is moved to Edo from Shimoda.
Austrian linguist Anton Boller is the first to suggest a connection between Japanese and the Altaic language family.
The British East India Company is abolished following the Indian Rebellion of 1857, and India comes under the direct control of the Crown.
The French gift a piece of artillery to the Kingdom of Ryûkyû.
The first gaslamp in the country is lit inside a stone lantern at the Shimazu clan Iso Palace in Kagoshima.
Construction begins on the Goryôkaku in Hokkaidô.
A Morse code message sent from the Tanshôen to Kagoshima castle 600 meters away becomes the first Morse code message sent within Japan.
The Royal Asiatic Society is established.
Yamaoka Tesshû and Kiyokawa Hachirô form the Torao Party.

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 ===Births and Deaths===
 *1857/1/28 [[Hashimoto Sanehisa]] dies.
+*1857/5/29 [[Hirohata Mototoyo]] dies.
 *1857/6/9 (July 29) - [[Abe Masahiro]] dies.
 *[[Goto Shinpei|Gotô Shinpei]], 3rd [[Chief of Home Affairs (Taiwan)]], is born (d. 1929).