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==Timeline of 1879==
==Timeline of 1879==
*1879/2 Peking urges Tokyo to not annex Ryûkyû as a prefecture.
*1879/4 The [[Kingdom of Ryukyu|Kingdom of Ryûkyû]] is dissolved and fully annexed into Japan as [[Okinawa Prefecture]]. King [[Sho Tai|Shô Tai]] is granted the title of Marquis, assimilated into the new Japanese [[kazoku|peerage]], and removed to [[Tokyo]]. [[Nabeshima Naoyoshi]] becomes the first Governor of the prefecture.
*1879/4 [[Shishido Tamaki|Shishidô Tamaki]] takes up his post as Japanese ambassador to China.
*1879/6 Shô Tai informs the Chinese authorities in Tientsin of the abolition of the kingdom and creation of Okinawa Prefecture, and requests Chinese intervention.
==Visit of Ulysses S. Grant to Japan==
*1879/1/18 [[Foreign Minister]] [[Terashima Munenari]] suggests to Prince [[Sanjo Sanetomi|Sanjô Sanetomi]] that Grant should be received as though he were a royal prince. The suggestion gets immediate approval.
*1879/4/18 Renovation efforts under the direction of [[Inoue Kaoru]], [[Minister of Public Works]], transforming the [[Enryokan|Enryôkan]] into a suitable Western-style accommodation for Grant and his party are completed.
*1879/6/21 [[Ulysses S. Grant]] arrives in [[Nagasaki]] harbor aboard the USS ''Richmond'', accompanied by his wife and son, and John Russell Young, a New York Herald reporter who is represented to the Japanese as Grant's secretary.
*1879/6/26 Grant's party departs Nagasaki for [[Yokohama]], aboard the ''Richmond''.
*1879/7/3 Grant's party arrives in Yokohama, and is welcomed by a number of officials including [[Iwakura Tomomi]]. They travel to Tokyo by train.
*1879/7/4 Grant is granted an audience with [[Emperor Meiji]].
*1879/7/8 Grant views a performance of [[Noh]]; he and his wife are the first Westerners to be the guests of honor at a "popular reception ... by the Japanese populace."
*1879/7/17 Grant's party arrives in [[Nikko|Nikkô]].
*1879/7/22 A conference is held in Nikkô to discuss the matter of sovereignty over Ryûkyû.
==Other Events of 1879==
==Other Events of 1879==
===Births and Deaths of 1879===
===Births and Deaths of 1879===