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*1861/5 ''[[Sonno|Sonnô]] [[joi|jôi]]'' activists from [[Mito han]] attack the British legation in [[Edo]], killing 21.
 
*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.
 
*1861/5/23-6/9 The Great Comet of 1861 is observed in Okinawa.
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*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.
 
*1861/12/2 (Jan 1, 1862) The first official [[Tokugawa shogunate]] embassy to Europe, led by [[Takeuchi Yasunori]], departs from Edo.
  
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===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]]).
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*[[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).

Latest revision as of 07:57, 17 July 2020

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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