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• 1406
  *[[Ming-Ho War]] - [[Ming Dynasty]] China takes over Vietnam (until [[1428]]).
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• 1633
  *War begins in earnest between the [[Trinh lords|Trinh]] and [[Nguyen lords]] in
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• Taebodan
  ...s a show of gratitude for his intervention in [[Korean Invasions|the Imjin War]]. However, in [[1749]], the shrine was expanded to also honor the first an
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• Yuan Chonghuan
  ...how to defend them. By this time a member of the staff of the Ministry of War, drawing both upon knowledge of European firearms and tactics, and other na
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• 1471
  ===[[Onin War|Ônin War]]===
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• 1646
  *The English Civil War, begun in [[1642]], comes to an end.
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• Eunuchs
  ...kidnapped or abducted during war. During the Tang, this practice of using war captives declined dramatically, or came to an end, and the majority of eunu
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• 1654
  *[[First Anglo-Dutch War]], begun [[1652]], ends.
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• Burma
  ...ct erupted between Burma and Qing China, resulting in a devastating border war for the Chinese. Numerous Chinese were felled in battle, and by disease, an ...tries to fall under Japanese control. Following its independence after the war, Burma pursued a friendly relationship with the Communist People's Republic
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• Yi Sun-Shin
  ==Imjin War== ...Press (2016), 76-78.</ref> Throughout the war, for seven years, Yi kept a war diary, entitled ''Nanjung ilgi'' (亂中日記). He is also known for a num
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• 1591
  ...'Fújiàn xúnfǔ'') [[Zhao Canlu|Zhào Cānlǔ]]<!--趙參魯--> tells the Ministry of War, which conveys the information to the [[Joseon]] court.
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• 1598
  ...8/11/18 [[Yi Sun Shin]] killed in battle with [[Shimazu Yoshihiro]] in the war at Noryang.
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• 1627
  *War breaks out between Northern (Tonkin) and Southern (Quang Nam) Viet Nam. Ngu
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• Torihara Soan
  ...Kingdom|Ryukyus]] to trade, Sôan, along with [[Mao Guoke]], a prisoner of war from [[Toyotomi Hideyoshi]]'s [[Korean Invasions]] who he was to repatriate
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• 1597
  * 1597/2/21 Hideyoshi orders a resumption of the [[Korean Invasions|war in Korea]]. Ukita Hideie is placed in overall command.
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• Keian Genju
  ...[[1473]], and was forced by the chaos and violence of the [[Onin War|Ônin War]] to move from place to place. After about five years of traveling around [
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• Sho Dynasty
  ...'ogoe'' (御後絵) in Japanese. These survive today only in black-and-white pre-war reproductions, as all the full-color painted originals were destroyed in th
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• Hideyoshi's invasions of Korea
  A number of terms are used in English, including "Imjin War," an adaptation of the Korean term. Perhaps the most common, however, is no ...small fleet of less than twenty ships, he famously turned the tide of the war yet again, defeating a fleet of some 133 Japanese ships at the [[battle of
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• Beijing
  ...eclaration of Imperial edicts, sending-off events for armies being sent to war, and victory celebrations at the end of a military campaign. Near the Wumen In [[1860]], during the [[Second Opium War]], the city came to be occupied by British and French forces, who ravaged t
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• Fuzhou
  ...) activity. This caused it to be a target of attack during the Sino-French War ([[1884]]-[[1885]]), but the city, its trade, and its foreign population, r ...Okinawa prefecture]] enjoyed a brief revival following the [[Sino-Japanese War]], when such activity was promoted by the [[Meiji government|Japanese gover
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• Fusetsugaki
  ...ials were informed by Dutch ''fûsetsugaki'' of the outbreak of the [[Opium War]] almost as it happened. Market developments, such as the supply and price
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• Yuan Dynasty
  ...ix Boards of government: the Boards of Rites, Revenue, Civil Appointments, War, Punishments, and Public Works. Towards the end of the dynasty, this chance
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• Jidaimono
  ...f this. The play revolves around actual historical figures of the [[Genpei War]], including [[Minamoto no Yoshitsune]] and his retainer [[Benkei]]. But th ...were used to represent the shogunate. The Taira clan, who lost the Genpei War to the Minamoto in the 1180s, commonly were represented as oppressed or wro
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• Giuseppe Castiglione
  ...[[1860]], however, by British and French forces during the [[Second Opium War]].)
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• Vietnam
  The [[Ming-Ho War]] ended in [[1406]] with Ming victory, and Vietnam remained under Chinese c ...oyotomi Hideyoshi and Tokugawa Ieyasu, in 1591 and 1601 respectively. When war broke out between Tonkin and Quang Nam in [[1627]], the Nguyễn, along wit
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• Chuzan
  ...d Ryûkyû in this period, especially after the chaos of the [[Onin War|Ônin War]] ([[1467]]-[[1477]]) and the onset of the [[Sengoku period]] forced much R
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• Sogen-ji
  ...50s, the first major project to restore cultural properties damaged in the war.<ref>Tze May Loo, ''Heritage Politics: Shuri Castle and Okinawa's Incorpora
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• Korean tribute missions to China
  ...g escorted as far as the Shanhai Pass (山海関) by officials from the Board of War.
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• Zheng He
  ...y, he was captured by raiders, and became one of a great many prisoners of war, mainly from non-Chinese ethnic origins, who were castrated while young (Zh
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• Mongols
  ...end, the forces dispatched to coordinate border defense, under minister of war Cheng Lo, took action. They burned down numerous Mongolian Buddhist temples
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• Tribute
  On the eve of the [[Opium War]], in [[1839]], the Qing Court ordered tribute missions from Burma, Siam, a Following the outbreak of the [[Onin War|Ônin War]], Ryukyuan tribute missions to the shogunate gradually disappeared, and [[
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• Qing Dynasty
  ...]], failed attempts at reform and modernization, the First [[Sino-Japanese War]] in [[1895]]-[[1896]], the [[Boxer Rebellion]] of [[1899]]-[[1901]], and t ...and ceding [[Hong Kong]] to the United Kingdom entirely. A [[Second Opium War]] would follow, in [[1856]]-[[1860]]. As late as 1870, opium still constitu
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• Firearms in Ryukyu
  ...79.</ref> Still used today at certain festivals, such as the [[Naha Tug-of-War]], devices used for salutes are comprised of a triple barrel, each roughly
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• Wako
  ...se coast.<ref name=so204>So. p204.</ref> By the 1530s, Sengoku (i.e. civil war in many parts of Japan) was in full swing, the shogunate held little power, ...or of the samurai forces of Hideyoshi, who brought back many prisoners of war to Japan when he [[Korean Invasions|invaded Korea in the 1590s]].<ref name=
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• Hoi An
  War broke out between the Nguyen and the Trinh in [[1627]], and the Nguyen peti
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• Ayutthaya
  When war broke out between Ayutthaya and [[Cambodia]] in [[1622]], Ayutthaya delayed ...and reciprocated them. Narai's relations with France led to his declaring war on the [[English East India Company]] in [[1687]]; the following year, [[Fr
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• Zaiban bugyo
  The annual [[Naha Tug-of-War]] competition between the four towns of Naha (Nishi, Higashi, Wakasa, Izumi
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• Kingdom of Ryukyu
  ...throughout the late 15th and 16th centuries, however. The [[Onin War|Ônin War]] influenced Ryukyuan trade to shift to [[Hakata]], [[Bonotsu|Bônotsu]], a
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• Murakami clan (Chugoku)
  At the end of the [[Zenkunen War]] ([[1051]]-[[1063]]), [[Minamoto no Yoriyoshi]] was appointed ''Iyo no kam ...Murakami Tamekuni]] sided with [[Emperor Sutoku]], and during the [[Genpei War]] (1180-1185) a few decades later, [[Murakami Nobukuni]] served [[Kiso Yosh
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• Taiwan
  ...pan. The tensions still simmered, however, and very nearly came to all-out war before the decade was up, in order to decide more definitively Chinese and Following Japanese victory in the Sino-Japanese War in 1895, Taiwan became Japanese territory. Residents were allowed a two-yea
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• Miyako Islands
  ...China and Japan was avoided, or at least delayed until the [[Sino-Japanese War|1890s]], with the help of the mediation of former US president [[Ulysses S.
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• Yaeyama Islands
  ...of significant [[coal]] mining efforts; these were terminated after World War II.<ref>Kerr, 362.; Gallery labels, "Nature on Iriomotejima Island," Galler
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• Korean embassies to Edo
  ...previous year. Between that time until the outbreak of the [[Onin War|Ônin War]] in [[1467]], Korea dispatched another five ''tsûshinshi'', three of whic ...rapprochement. Among other terms of negotiations, 3000 Korean prisoners of war are returned to Korea.
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• Ming Dynasty
  ...ched five military expeditions deep into Mongolia. The Dynasty remained at war with various Mongol groups on and off for two hundred years, with one Emper
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• Sugar
  ...nawa in [[1908]], but traditional mills remained in use well into the post-war period.<ref>Explanatory plaque, ''Sata-guruma'', Okinawa Furusato Mura, at
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• Toyotomi Hideyoshi
  ...in Omi would be relatively brief. By [[1576]] the Oda and Mori had gone to war and the following Nobunaga ordered Hideyoshi to co-command a campaign throu ...en heavily out-numbered, at least on paper, for much of his almost private war with the Mori. Occasionally, other commanders had been sent to assist Hidey
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• Katsuren gusuku
  ...constructed across much of Okinawa Island, in anticipation of the Pacific War. While the Nishihara Gate stood on the northeast side of the compound, a se
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• Currency
  ...court banned the use of coin in [[1193]], but once the end of the [[Genpei War]] brought peace and greater inter-regional economic integration (thus dimin
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• Sanshin
  In the immediate aftermath of the devastation of World War II, many Okinawans worked to create sanshin from whatever materials were av
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• Japanese Swords
  ...ai government ( Genji and Heike ) from an aristocrat government. After the war happened in the middle stage of Heian Era, the battle style changed. That i After the war happened in 1232, Hojo family held real power and Kamakura shogunate reinfo
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