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==Other Events of 1816==

==Other Events of 1816==

*[[HMS Alceste and Lyra]] arrive in [[Kingdom of Ryukyu|Ryûkyû]].

*[[HMS Alceste and Lyra]] arrive in [[Kingdom of Ryukyu|Ryûkyû]]; among the crew, commander [[Basil Hall]] and [[Herbert John Clifford]], who begins researching the [[Okinawan language]].

*A system of fire signals located atop mountains, which could be lit to signal Edo in the event of the incursion of a foreign ship into Nagasaki harbor, established in [[1809]] and never used, is officially abolished.

*A system of fire signals located atop mountains, which could be lit to signal Edo in the event of the incursion of a foreign ship into Nagasaki harbor, established in [[1809]] and never used, is officially abolished.

*The [[Yoshiwara]] burns down.

*The [[Yoshiwara]] burns down.