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| ==Timeline of 1839== | | ==Timeline of 1839== |
− | *1839/5-12 ''[[Bansha no goku]]'' - Efforts are made to suppress ''[[Rangaku]]'' (Dutch/Western learning). A number of ''rangaku'' scholars, including [[Takano Chôei]] and [[Watanabe Kazan]], are arrested and imprisoned. | + | *1839/4 Former shogun [[Tokugawa Ienari]] and his entourage move back in to the rebuilt Nishi-no-maru at [[Edo castle]]. |
− | ==Other Events== | + | *1839/5-12 ''[[Bansha no goku]]'' - Efforts are made to suppress ''[[Rangaku]]'' (Dutch/Western learning). A number of ''rangaku'' scholars, including [[Takano Choei|Takano Chôei]] and [[Watanabe Kazan]], are arrested and imprisoned. |
| + | *1839/12 Reconstruction is completed at Edo castle, following the destruction of the Nishi-no-maru the previous year. |
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| + | ==Other Events of 1839== |
| + | *[[Jirokichi]] and six other castaways are rescued by an American ship after six months at sea and brought to Honolulu. Though perhaps not the first Japanese to ever travel to [[Hawaii]], this represents the earliest documented instance of which historians today are aware. |
| + | *Louis Daguerre invents the ''daguerrotype'' in Paris. |
| + | *Sir John Frederick William Herschel coins the word "[[photography]]." |
| + | *[[Mizuno Tadakuni]] issues an order banning the sale of "Ryukyu goods" (by agents of [[Satsuma han]], reselling both Ryukyuan and Chinese goods obtained from [[Ryukyu Kingdom|Ryukyu]]) in [[Nagasaki]] for ten years. This, in response to declining Chinese trade activity at Nagasaki, and a desire to impel Chinese merchants, illegally trading at Satsuma, to return to Nagasaki. |
| *[[Shieikan]] dôjô is established in Ichigaya, Edo, by [[Kondo Shusuke|Kondô Shûsuke]]. | | *[[Shieikan]] dôjô is established in Ichigaya, Edo, by [[Kondo Shusuke|Kondô Shûsuke]]. |
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| ===Births and Deaths=== | | ===Births and Deaths=== |
| *1839/5/5 [[Echigo Saburo|Echigo Saburô]], member of the [[Shinsengumi]], is born (d. 1892). | | *1839/5/5 [[Echigo Saburo|Echigo Saburô]], member of the [[Shinsengumi]], is born (d. 1892). |
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| *[[Kamishiro Jinnosuke]], member of the Rôshigumi, is born. | | *[[Kamishiro Jinnosuke]], member of the Rôshigumi, is born. |
| *[[Nagakura Shinpachi]], Shinsengumi captain, is born (d. 1915). | | *[[Nagakura Shinpachi]], Shinsengumi captain, is born (d. 1915). |
| + | *Painter [[Nantenbo|Nantenbô]] is born (d. 1925). |
| *[[Takasugi Shinsaku]], leader of the [[Kiheitai]], is born (d. 1867). | | *[[Takasugi Shinsaku]], leader of the [[Kiheitai]], is born (d. 1867). |
| *[[Takechi Zuizan]], [[Tosa han|Tosa]] Loyalist, is born (d. 1867). | | *[[Takechi Zuizan]], [[Tosa han|Tosa]] Loyalist, is born (d. 1867). |
| + | *Artist [[Tsukioka Yoshitoshi]] is born (d. [[1892]]). |
| *[[Yasutomi Saisuke]], Shinsengumi investigator, is born. | | *[[Yasutomi Saisuke]], Shinsengumi investigator, is born. |
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