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*1853/3/27 Perry's fleet lands at Shanghai.
*1853/3/27 Perry's fleet lands at Shanghai.
*1853/4/19 Perry's fleet lands at [[Naha]].
*1853/4/19 Perry's fleet lands at [[Naha]].
*1853/4/30 Perry enters [[Shuri castle]], though no one higher than the regent is present to meet with.
*1853/4/23 Several of Perry's men seize the main assembly hall / schoolhouse of [[Tomari]], establishing it as an American residence.
*1853/5/8 Perry's fleet reaches the [[Ogasawara Islands]].
*1853/4/26 The ''Caprice'' from Perry's fleet departs Okinawa for Shanghai, carrying laundry, $800 to be deposited into the banks in the name of British missionary [[Bernard Bettelheim]], and post, including a letter from Commodore Perry to the US Secretary of the Navy, and Bettleheim's first missives in 11 months.
*1853/4/28 The Ryukyuan royal regent visits Perry aboard ship and attempts to convince him to give up his intentions to visit [[Shuri castle]]. Perry denies Bettelheim's request to travel with him to Japan.
*1853/4/30 Perry enters Shuri castle, though he is denied an audience with the king or dowager queen.
*1853/5/1 Perry holds a full-dress review of his fleet at Naha Harbor.
*1853/5/2 Perry claims a portion of the [[Gokoku-ji (Okinawa)|Gokoku-ji]] complex where Bettelheim had been living as pasture for the fleet's flocks.
*1853/5/3 Two American ships depart Naha for the [[Ogasawara Islands]].
*1853/5/8 Perry's fleet reaches the Ogasawara Islands.
*1853/5/17 Perry returns to Naha.
*1853/5/20 Bettelheim preaches to the Americans aboard the ''Plymouth'' at Naha.
*1853/5/26 Perry leaves Okinawa with four ships, on his first journey to Japan.
*1853/6/3 Perry's fleet lands at [[Uraga]] near [[Edo]], presents credentials from Pres. Fillmore to [[Tokugawa shogunate]] officials.
*1853/6/3 Perry's fleet lands at [[Uraga]] near [[Edo]], presents credentials from Pres. Fillmore to [[Tokugawa shogunate]] officials.
*1853/6 [[Abe Masahiro]] reports on the arrival of the Black Ships to the [[Imperial Court]].
*1853/6 [[Abe Masahiro]] reports on the arrival of the Black Ships to the [[Imperial Court]].
*1853/6/9 Perry delivers the formal letter from President Millard Fillmore, and states that he will return "in due course" to receive the emperor's reply.
*1853/6/20 Perry and his fleet return to Naha.
*1853/6/23 Perry meets with the Ryukyuan regent, and receives the formal response to his insistence that the kingdom allow for the construction of a coaling station at Naha and the free welcoming of American ships. The regent denies his request at first, but capitulates once the commodore threatens to seize Shuri castle.
*1853/6/27 Perry departs Okinawa.
*1853/7/18 Russian embassy under [[Yevfimy Vasilyevich Putyatin|Putyatin]] arrives in [[Nagasaki]].
*1853/7/18 Russian embassy under [[Yevfimy Vasilyevich Putyatin|Putyatin]] arrives in [[Nagasaki]].
*1853 July The shogunate consults various daimyô on the issue of opening the country. [[Tokugawa Nariaki]] of [[Mito han]] is appointed to oversee the country's naval defense.
*1853 July The shogunate consults various daimyô on the issue of opening the country. [[Tokugawa Nariaki]] of [[Mito han]] is appointed to oversee the country's naval defense.
