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==Timeline of 1874==
 
==Timeline of 1874==
*1874/2 [[Saga Rebellion]] - ''[[Shizoku]]'' (former samurai) rebellion against the new Meiji government.
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*1874/1/17 [[Itagaki Taisuke]], [[Soejima Taneomi]], [[Goto Shojiro|Gotô Shôjirô]], [[Eto Shinpei|Etô Shinpei]], [[Yuri Kimimasa]], and a group of others submit a [[Petition for the Establishment of a Popularly Elected Assembly]]<!--民撰議院設立建白書--> to the [[Meiji government]].
*1874/2 The Meiji government decides to send a punitive expedition to Taiwan.
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*1874/2 [[Saga Rebellion]] - Etô Shinpei leads a ''[[shizoku]]'' (former samurai) rebellion against the new Meiji government.
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*1874/2/6 The Meiji government decides to send a punitive expedition to Taiwan.
 
*1874/5-6 [[Saigo Tsugumichi|Saigô Tsugumichi]] leads the [[Taiwan Expedition of 1874]].
 
*1874/5-6 [[Saigo Tsugumichi|Saigô Tsugumichi]] leads the [[Taiwan Expedition of 1874]].
 
**1874/5/2 The first Japanese ships land on Taiwan.
 
**1874/5/2 The first Japanese ships land on Taiwan.
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**1874/late May Saigô himself arrives in Taiwan.
 
**1874/late May Saigô himself arrives in Taiwan.
 
**1874/6 Fighting ends.
 
**1874/6 Fighting ends.
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*1874/7/12 At the suggestion of Minister of the Interior [[Okubo Toshimichi|Ôkubo Toshimichi]], [[Ryukyu han|Ryûkyû han]] comes under the control of the newly established [[Ministry of the Interior]], and no longer under that of the [[Ministry of Foreign Affairs]].
 
*1874/9/14 Negotiations between China and Japan, to resolve the Taiwan/Ryûkyû situation, begin, mediated by British diplomat [[Sir Thomas Wade]].
 
*1874/9/14 Negotiations between China and Japan, to resolve the Taiwan/Ryûkyû situation, begin, mediated by British diplomat [[Sir Thomas Wade]].
 
*1874/10/31 Japan and China conclude a treaty, in which China recognizes the Ryuykuans as Japanese subjects and admits less than complete sovereign control over some southern regions of Taiwan; China also agrees to pay an indemnity of 500,000 ''[[tael]]s'' to Japan.
 
*1874/10/31 Japan and China conclude a treaty, in which China recognizes the Ryuykuans as Japanese subjects and admits less than complete sovereign control over some southern regions of Taiwan; China also agrees to pay an indemnity of 500,000 ''[[tael]]s'' to Japan.
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*1874/11 Okinawan [[tribute]] mission is dispatched to China, consisting of 180 persons and led by [[Kunjan peechin]].
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*1874/12 The Meiji government orders Ryûkyû to send its high officials to Tokyo.
  
 
==Other Events of 1874==
 
==Other Events of 1874==
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*[[Morioka castle]] is demolished.
 
*[[Morioka castle]] is demolished.
 
*[[Obama castle]] is torn down.
 
*[[Obama castle]] is torn down.
*[[Ryukyu han|Ryûkyû han]] comes under the control of the newly established [[Ministry of the Interior]], and no longer comes under the purview of the [[Ministry of Foreign Affairs]].
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*[[Osaka]] and [[Kobe]] are connected by rail.
 
*Woodblock prints depicting the events of the Taiwan Expedition are the first ''[[shinbun nishiki-e]]'', or "news prints".
 
*Woodblock prints depicting the events of the Taiwan Expedition are the first ''[[shinbun nishiki-e]]'', or "news prints".
 
*[[Tatebayashi castle]] is destroyed.
 
*[[Tatebayashi castle]] is destroyed.
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*The ''[[Yomiuri Shinbun]]'' is founded.
 
*The ''[[Yomiuri Shinbun]]'' is founded.
 
*A series of prints designed by [[Yoshitoshi]] and depicting various events in the lives of various [[Tokugawa shogunate|Tokugawa shoguns]] is released, the first print series to legally depict contemporary events & to depict and identify shoguns by name.
 
*A series of prints designed by [[Yoshitoshi]] and depicting various events in the lives of various [[Tokugawa shogunate|Tokugawa shoguns]] is released, the first print series to legally depict contemporary events & to depict and identify shoguns by name.
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*A series of Imperial portraits by Italian oil painter [[Giuseppe Ugolini]] are the first art objects to be officially & voluntarily acquired by the Imperial Household.
  
 
===Births and Deaths===
 
===Births and Deaths===
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*''[[Nihonga]]'' painter [[Hishida Shunso|Hishida Shunsô]] is born (d. [[1911]]).
 
*''[[Nihonga]]'' painter [[Hishida Shunso|Hishida Shunsô]] is born (d. [[1911]]).
 
*[[Torii Yozo|Torii Yôzô]] dies.
 
*[[Torii Yozo|Torii Yôzô]] dies.
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*[[Utagawa Kuniteru II]] dies (b. [[1830]]).
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*Winston Churchill is born (d.1965).
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*Yi Cheok ([[Emperor Sunjong]] of Korea) is born (d. 1926).
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