1874

Meiji 7 (明治七年)

Timeline of 1874

1874/2 Saga Rebellion - Shizoku (former samurai) rebellion against the new Meiji government.
1874/2 The Meiji government decides to send a punitive expedition to Taiwan.
1874/5-6 Saigô Tsugumichi leads the Taiwan Expedition of 1874.
- 1874/5/2 The first Japanese ships land on Taiwan.
- 1874/5/22 Battle of Stone Gate (Sekimon)
- 1874/late May Saigô himself arrives in Taiwan.
- 1874/6 Fighting ends.
1874/10 Japan and China sign a treaty, in which China recognizes the Ryuykuans as Japanese subjects and admits less than complete sovereign control over some southern regions of Taiwan; China also agrees to pay an indemnity to Japan.

Akashi castle is demolished.
Dragon robes are granted to the Kingdom of Ryûkyû by China for the final time.
Author and educator William Griffis returns to the United States.
Hagi castle is torn down.
Merriman Harris is appointed American Vice-Consul in Japan.
Kabuki actor Kawarazaki Sanshô takes the name Ichikawa Danjûrô IX.
Kagoshima castle is demolished.
Artist Kobayashi Kiyochika returns to Tokyo.
Morioka castle is demolished.
Obama castle is torn down.
Ryûkyû han comes under the control of the newly established Ministry of the Interior, and no longer comes under the purview of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Woodblock prints depicting the events of the Taiwan Expedition are the first shinbun nishiki-e, or "news prints".
Tatebayashi castle is destroyed.
Tsuyama castle is torn down.
Ueda castle is demolished.
The Yomiuri Shinbun is founded.
A series of prints designed by Yoshitoshi and depicting various events in the lives of various Tokugawa shoguns is released, the first print series to legally depict contemporary events & to depict and identify shoguns by name.

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