1613

Keichô 18 (慶長十八年)

Timeline of 1613

• 1613/9 Date Masamune (Sendai han) dispatches a political mission to Europe.
• 1613/12/23 The Tokugawa Bakufu officially orders the expulsion of all missionaries from Japan.

Voyage of the Clove

• Jan 14 - The English ship the Clove departs Java for Japan.
• Mar 11 - The Clove arrives at Tidore (in modern-day Indonesia).
• Apr 14 - The Clove departs the Moluccas for Japan.
• Jun 10 - The Clove passes by Nagasaki.
• Jun 11 - The Clove arrives at Hirado.
• July 7 - John Saris and William Adams depart Hirado for Sunpu and Edo, traveling via Shimonoseki and Sakai.
• July 27 - arrival at Osaka.
• July 29 - arrival at Kyoto.
• Sept 6 - arrival at Sunpu.
• Sept 12 - Saris and Adams carve their names inside the Kamakura Daibutsu.
• Sept 14 - arrival at Edo.
• 1613/8/4 (Sept 18) Capt. John Saris meets with Tokugawa Ieyasu. He presents the former shogun with gifts, including the first telescope to be taken out of Europe.
• Sept 21 - departure from Edo for Hirado.
• Sept 29 - arrival at Sunpu.
• Oct 9 - departure from Sunpu.
• Oct 16 - arrival at Kyoto.
• Oct 20 - departure from Kyoto for Hirado.
• Nov 6 - arrival at Hirado.
• Nov - British East India Company factory is established at Hirado.
• Dec 5 - Saris departs Japan aboard the Clove.

Other Events of 1613

• The second volume of the Omoro Sôshi is compiled.

Births and Deaths

• Kanô Yasunobu is born (d. 1685).

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