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==Timeline of 1861==
==Timeline of 1861==
*1861/2/3 Russian ship ''[[Posadnik]]'' drops anchor at [[Tsushima Island|Tsushima]].
*1861/5 ''[[Sonno|Sonnô]] [[joi|jôi]]'' activists from [[Mito han]] attack the British legation in [[Edo]], killing 21.
*1861/5/23-6/9 The Great Comet of 1861 is observed in Okinawa.
*1861/10/20 [[Kazu-no-miya]] departs Kyoto for Edo to marry Shogun [[Tokugawa Iemochi]].
*1861/12/2 (Jan 1, 1862) The first official [[Tokugawa shogunate]] embassy to Europe, led by [[Takeuchi Yasunori]], departs from Edo.
==Other Events of 1861==
==Other Events of 1861==
*[[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.
*Political cartoonist [[Charles Wirgman]] arrives in Japan.
*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.
===Births and Deaths===
===Births and Deaths===
*1860/12/5 (January 15, 1861) [[Henry Heusken]] is killed (b. [[1832]]).
*1860/12/5 (January 15, 1861) [[Henry Heusken]] is killed (b. [[1832]]).
*[[Kamekawa Seito|Kamekawa Seitô]] (Mô Yûkei)<!--毛有慶・亀川盛棟--> is born (d. [[1893]]).
*''[[Ukiyo-e]]'' dealer [[Kobayashi Bunshichi]] is born (d. 1923).
*''[[Ukiyo-e]]'' dealer [[Kobayashi Bunshichi]] is born (d. 1923).
*Diplomat and politician [[Makino Nobuaki]] is born (d. 1949).
*Diplomat and politician [[Makino Nobuaki]] is born (d. 1949).
