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*1879/6/11 Shô Tai is given an audience with the [[Meiji Emperor]].
*1879/6/11 Shô Tai is given an audience with the [[Meiji Emperor]].
*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.
*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.
+*1879/7/8 US Secretary of State William M. Evarts offers that the US will agree to China's request for official US mediation in the Ryûkyû dispute should a similar request be made by Japan; the latter never occurred.
*1879/9/20 China proposes that representatives be appointed in order to enter into negotiations over the issue of sovereignty over Ryûkyû.
*1879/9/20 China proposes that representatives be appointed in order to enter into negotiations over the issue of sovereignty over Ryûkyû.
+*1879/12/1 US President Rutherford B. Hayes mentions the Ryûkyû dispute in Congress.
==Visit of Ulysses S. Grant to Japan==
==Visit of Ulysses S. Grant to Japan==