1816
Bunka 13 (文化十三年)
Timeline of 1816
Other Events of 1816
- HMS Alceste and Lyra arrive in Ryûkyû; among the crew, commander Basil Hall and Herbert John Clifford, who begins researching the Okinawan language.
- A system of fire signals located atop mountains, which could be lit to signal Edo in the event of the incursion of a foreign ship into Nagasaki harbor, established in 1809 and never used, is officially abolished.
- The Yoshiwara burns down.
Births and Deaths
- Eliphalet Brown Jr. is born (d. 1886).
- Santô Kyôden dies (b. 1761).
- Tokugawa Harutoshi, daimyô of Mito han, dies (b. 1773).
- Yoshida Tôyô is born.
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