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==Timeline of 1764==
==Timeline of 1764==
*1764/2 The Great Meiwa Fire strikes.
*1764/6/22 The [[Meiwa era]] begins.
*1764/6/22 The [[Meiwa era]] begins.
==Other Events of 1764==
==Other Events of 1764==
*Korean embassy journeys to Edo for the last time. (One later mission, in [[1811]], goes only as far as [[Tsushima han]].) [[Korean embassy to Edo 1764|The entourage]] consists of 498 people, and the journey takes 382 days in total.
*An optique (a box with mirror and lens, for viewing perspective pictures) is first imported into Japan, by the [[Dutch East India Company]].
*Korean embassy journeys to Edo for the last time. (One later mission, in [[1811]], goes only as far as [[Tsushima han]].) The entourage consists of 498 people, and the journey takes 382 days in total.
*[[Ryukyuan embassy]] journeys to Edo.
*[[Ryukyuan embassy]] journeys to Edo.
*[[Tenma Rebellion]] - Peasants in eastern Japan protest the financial burden on them (in the form of taxes, etc.) to finance the reception of the Korean embassies. Shogunate forces enter into ''daimyô'' domains to prosecute the protestors.
===Births and Deaths===
===Births and Deaths===
*[[Kabuki]] actor [[Matsumoto Koshiro V|Matsumoto Kôshirô V]] is born (d. [[1838]]).
*[[Kabuki]] actor [[Matsumoto Koshiro V|Matsumoto Kôshirô V]] is born (d. [[1838]]).
*[[Tokugawa Muneharu]] dies (b. [[1696]]).