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==Timeline of 1861==
 
==Timeline of 1861==
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*1861/2/3 Russian ship ''[[Posadnik]]'' drops anchor at [[Tsushima Island|Tsushima]].
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*1861/5 ''[[Sonno|Sonnô]] [[joi|jôi]]'' activists from [[Mito han]] attack the British legation in [[Edo]], killing 21.
  
 
==Other Events of 1861==
 
==Other Events of 1861==
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*[[Kondo Isami|Kondô Isami]] becomes the fourth head of the ''Tennen Rishin-ryû''.
 
*[[Kondo Isami|Kondô Isami]] becomes the fourth head of the ''Tennen Rishin-ryû''.
 
*[[Sakamoto Ryoma|Sakamoto Ryôma]] joins the [[Tosa Loyalist Party]].
 
*[[Sakamoto Ryoma|Sakamoto Ryôma]] joins the [[Tosa Loyalist Party]].
*''[[Sonno|Sonnô]] [[joi|jôi]]'' activists attack the British legation in Edo.
 
 
*A Ryukyuan [[tribute]] mission is denied permission to travel to Beijing, and stays in [[Fuzhou]] for several months, requesting permission and being denied several times, before finally returning to Ryûykû.
 
*A Ryukyuan [[tribute]] mission is denied permission to travel to Beijing, and stays in [[Fuzhou]] for several months, requesting permission and being denied several times, before finally returning to Ryûykû.
 
*Political cartoonist [[Charles Wirgman]] arrives in Japan.
 
*Political cartoonist [[Charles Wirgman]] arrives in Japan.

Revision as of 00:14, 18 July 2014

Man'en 2 (万延二年) / Bunkyû 1 (文久元年)

Timeline of 1861

Other Events of 1861

  • Currency conversion is undertaken in Ryûkyû, with each copper coin being replaced by two in iron.
  • King Shô Tai of Ryûkyû orders a nationwide prayer be held for China, in light of the Taiping Rebellion and Anglo-French invasion of Beijing as part of the Second Opium War.
  • Kondô Isami becomes the fourth head of the Tennen Rishin-ryû.
  • Sakamoto Ryôma joins the Tosa Loyalist Party.
  • A Ryukyuan tribute mission is denied permission to travel to Beijing, and stays in Fuzhou for several months, requesting permission and being denied several times, before finally returning to Ryûykû.
  • Political cartoonist Charles Wirgman arrives in Japan.
  • China establishes the Zongli Yamen, an office managing China's foreign relations within a Western world order of international relations between nation-states.

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