Hôei 7 (宝永七年)

Timeline of 1710

  • 1710/3/3 Arai Hakuseki borrows the records of previous Ryukyuan embassies.
  • 1710/8/10 Emperor Nakamikado takes the throne.
  • 1710/int.8/26 Ryukyuan embassy departs Kagoshima.
  • 1710/11/11 Ryukyuan embassy arrives in Edo.
  • 1710/11/18,21,23 Ryukyuan embassy meets with Shogun or shogunal officials at Edo castle.
  • 1710/12/18 Ryukyuan embassy departs Edo.

Other Events of 1710

  • The buke shohatto is repromulgated.
  • Paper money, and trading in futures, first begins to develop, in connection with the activities of the Dôjima Rice Exchange.
  • Gion Nankai is pardoned, and is allowed to return to his family's han, from which he had been exiled 10 years prior.

Births and Deaths

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1709
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1711