*[[Jirokichi]] and six other castaways are rescued by an American ship after six months at sea and brought to Honolulu. Though perhaps not the first Japanese to ever travel to [[Hawaii]], this represents the earliest documented instance of which historians today are aware.
*Louis Daguerre invents the ''daguerrotype'' in Paris.
*Louis Daguerre invents the ''daguerrotype'' in Paris.
*Sir John Frederick William Herschel coins the word "[[photography]]."
*Sir John Frederick William Herschel coins the word "[[photography]]."
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*[[Mizuno Tadakuni]] issues an order banning the sale of "Ryukyu goods" (by agents of [[Satsuma han]], reselling both Ryukyuan and Chinese goods obtained from [[Ryukyu Kingdom|Ryukyu]]) in [[Nagasaki]] for ten years. This, in response to declining Chinese trade activity at Nagasaki, and a desire to impel Chinese merchants, illegally trading at Satsuma, to return to Nagasaki.
*[[Shieikan]] dôjô is established in Ichigaya, Edo, by [[Kondo Shusuke|Kondô Shûsuke]].
*[[Shieikan]] dôjô is established in Ichigaya, Edo, by [[Kondo Shusuke|Kondô Shûsuke]].