Difference between revisions of "1896"

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Meiji 29 (明治二十九年)

1896/2/29 Construction of building of Bank of Japan completed.
1896/3/1 Shinpo-to is formed.
1896/3/15 First liner to Europe leaves Yokohama port.
1896/3/31 Governer-General of Taiwan promulgates Gakko Kansei.
1896/4/14 Itagaki Taisuke becomes Secretary General.
1896/5/14 Russian minister Weaver and Komura Jutaro sign a memorandom about Chosun.
1896/6/6 Kuroda Seiki establishes Hakuba-kai.
1896/6/9 Yamagata-Lobanov Agreement
1896/6/15 A big flood strikes Sanriku region. Death toll 27000.
1896/7/2 Kawakami Otojiro opens Kawakami-za in Kanda.
1896/7/21 Treaty of Commerce and Navigation between Japan and China.
1896/9/1 Express train between Shinbashi and Kobe.
1896/9/18 Second Matsukata cabinet.
1896/11/14 Magazine 26 century banned.

Iha Fuyû is expelled from Shuri Middle School for organizing protests against discriminatory policies and attitudes. He travels to the Japanese "mainland."
Okinawan anti-assimilation Kôdôkai organization founded.
Dysentery and typhoid fever spread.
Kuroda Seiki named director of the Western painting section at the Tokyo School of Fine Arts.
Nihon Kaiga Kyôkai ("Japan Painting Association") is founded by Okakura Kakuzô and Ernest Fenollosa.

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 ==Other Events of 1896==
+*[[Iha Fuyu|Iha Fuyû]] is expelled from Shuri Middle School for organizing protests against discriminatory policies and attitudes. He travels to the Japanese "mainland."
 *[[Okinawa]]n anti-assimilation ''[[Kodokai|Kôdôkai]]'' organization founded.
 * Dysentery and typhoid fever spread.