1877

Meiji 10 (明治十年)

Timeline of 1877

1877/3 Kôchi ueekata and several other Ryukyuan officials who snuck out of Ryûkyû the previous December arrive in Fuzhou.
1877/5 Edward Sylvester Morse departs the US for Japan.
1877/12 He Ruzhang arrives in Tokyo to serve as the new Resident Diplomatic Minister from China.

1877/2/20 Saigô Takamori is declared a rebel by the Meiji government.
1877/2/22 Saigô's army of roughly 42,000 attempts to oust the Imperial garrison at Kumamoto castle.
1877/3 Saigô's siege of Kumamoto castle is lifted.
The rebels retreat to Kagoshima and are in the end eventually defeated by Imperial forces, who have superior numbers and equipment, if not superior military ability.

Ainu lands are made the property of the State.
Felice Beato sells his photography business in Japan to the Austrian photographer Baron Raimund von Stillfried-Ratenicz and his German partner Hermann Andersen.
Josiah Conder arrives in Japan, and starts the architecture division of the Kôbu gakkô (Imperial College of Engineering).
The First Domestic Industrial Exposition (Naikoku Kangyô Hakurankai) is held.
Nomura Fumio's Marumaru Chinbun is first issued.
Kôno Bairei becomes head of the Shijô school upon the death of his master Shiokawa Bunrin.
Kumamoto castle is destroyed.
Kyoto and Kobe are connected by rail.
Edward Sylvester Morse is invited to organize the Dept of Zoology at the new Tokyo Imperial University.
Edward Sylvester Morse introduces Darwin's theories on natural selection and "the origin of species" to Japan.
Muslim rebellions in northwest China, ongoing since 1862, are finally quelled.
An official Qing Chinese embassy is established in Tokyo.
Tanba Kameyama castle is torn down.
Tokugawa Iesato leaves for England, for study.
Tokyo Imperial University is established, with four faculties: a Faculty of Law, one of Medicine, one of Literature, and one of Physical Sciences.
Tottori castle is demolished.

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