Timeline of Nagasaki explained

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Nagasaki, Japan.

Prior to 20th century

• 12th C. - Included in the fief of Nagasaki Kotaro.
• 1571 - Port of Nagasaki established; opens to foreign ships.
• 1597 - 26 Christians executed.^[1]
• 1614 - Suwa Shrine built.
• 1626 - Nagasaki Kunchi (shrine festival) begins.
• 1634 - Megane Bridge built.
• 1637 - Shimabara Rebellion occurs near Nagasaki.^[2]
• 1638 - Sannō Shrine founded.
• 1641 - "Dutch Confined to Dejima Island" in Nagasaki harbor.^[3]
• 1855 - "Modern shipbuilding yard" established.
• 1858 - Port opened to foreign trade.
• 1861 - Nagasaki Shipping List and Advertiser begins publication.
• 1865 - Catholic Ōura Church built.
• 1876 - Saikai Shimbun (newspaper) begins publication.^[4]
• 1877 - Immaculate Conception Cathedral, Nagasaki founded.
• 1887 - Population: 40,187.^[5]
• 1888 - Sakamoto International Cemetery established.
• 1889 - Value of imports £1,005,367.
• 1893 - Mitsubishi Nagasaki Zosensho (shipyard) active.
• 1894 - Value of imports £444,839.
• 1898 - Kyushu Tosu-Nogasaki railway begins operating.

20th century

• 1902 - (newspaper) begins publication.
• 1903 - Population: 151,727.^[6]
• 1905
  • Nagasaki Station opens.
  • founded.^[7]
  • Population: 163,324.
• 1915 - Nagasaki Electric Tramway begins operating.
• 1923 - established.
• 1925 - Population: 189,071.^[8]
• 1945
  • August 9: Atomic bombing of Nagasaki by US forces.^[9]
  • Population: 142,748.^[10]
• 1949 - Nagasaki University established.
• 1950 - Population: 241,805.
• 1955 - Sister city relationship established with Saint Paul, United States.^[11]
• 1957 - Glover house (museum) opens.
• 1959 - Nagasaki Aquarium founded.^[12]
• 1972 - Sister city relationship established with Santos, Brazil.
• 1974 - Population: 445,655.^[13]
• 1978 - Sister city relationships established with Middelburg, Netherlands, and Porto, Portugal.
• 1979 - Hitoshi Motoshima becomes mayor.
• 1980
  • Nagasaki Bio Park founded.
  • Sister city relationship established with Fuzhou, China.
  • Population: 502,799.
• 1990 - January 18:, targeting mayor Motoshima.
• 1995 - Iccho Itoh becomes mayor.
• 1996 - Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum built.
• 2000 - Population: 423,163.^[14]

21st century

• 2001 - opens.
• 2002 - Use of Nagasaki Smart Card on public transit begins.
• 2005
  • Iōjima, Kōyagi, Nomozaki, Sanwa, Sotome, and Takashima become part of city.
  • Nagasaki Museum of History and Culture and Nagasaki Prefectural Art Museum open.
  • Sister city relationship established with Vaux-sur-Aure, France.
• 2007
  • April 17:, fatally targeting mayor Itoh.
  • April 22: Tomihisa Taue becomes mayor.
• 2010 - Population: 443,766.^[15]

See also

• Nagasaki history
• Timeline of Nagasaki (in Japanese)

References

This article incorporates information from the Japanese Wikipedia.

Bibliography

Published in the 19th century

• Book: nl . Hathi Trust . Japan . Stad Nagasaky . G.F. Meijlan . J.H. Tobias . Amsterdam . M. Westerman & Zoon . 1830 . http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008641724 .
• Book: 1841 . Manners and Customs of the Japanese, in the Nineteenth Century . London . . Hathi Trust . (Town of Nagasaki) . http://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.hw26ti?urlappend=%3Bseq=77 . Philipp Franz von Siebold . 2027/hvd.hw26ti?urlappend=%3Bseq=77 . Philipp Franz von Siebold .
• Book: William Henry Overall. William Henry Overall. Dictionary of Chronology. 1870. William Tegg . London . Nagasaki . 2027/uc2.ark:/13960/t9m32q949?urlappend=%3Bseq=598. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc2.ark:/13960/t9m32q949?urlappend=%3Bseq=598. .

Published in the 20th century

• Book: History of Japan . Engelbert Kaempfer . Engelbert Kaempfer . 1906 . 2 . Of Nagasacki . http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015047659159?urlappend=%3Bseq=93 . Glasgow . James MacLehose and Sons . 2027/mdp.39015047659159?urlappend=%3Bseq=93 . . 1727 . (first published in 1727)
• Nagasaki . 19 . 151 . 1910 . . 1.
  • • Founding of the Port of Nagasaki and its Cession to the Society of Jesus . Diego Pacheco . . 25 . 3/4 . 303–323 . 1970 . 2383539. . 10.2307/2383539 .
• Book: Routledge . 9781884964046 . International Dictionary of Historic Places: Asia and Oceania . 1996 . Schellinger . Salkin . UK . Nagasaki . https://books.google.com/books?id=vWLRxJEU49EC&pg=PA612 . 612+. .

Published in the 21st century

• Two Faces of Nagasaki: The World of the Suwa Festival Screen . Reinier H. Hesselink . Monumenta Nipponica . 59 . 2 . 179–222 . 2004 . 25066290. .
• Book: 'Hugh Cortazzi. Hugh Cortazzi. Victorians in Japan: In and Around the Treaty Ports . 2012 . Bloomsbury . 978-1-78093-977-3 . Nagasaki . https://books.google.com/books?id=4akVAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA3 . 3–32 . (first published in 1987)
• Nagasaki's Districts: Western Contact with Japan through the History of a City's Space . David Palmer . . 42 . 2016 .
• Geoffrey C. Gunn, World Trade Systems of the East and West: Nagasaki and the Asian Bullion Trade Networks (Leiden: Brill, 2017)

External links

• Maps of Nagasaki, 1945
• Items related to Nagasaki, various dates (via Europeana).
• Items related to Nagasaki, various dates (via Digital Public Library of America).
• Photos of Nagasaki by Felice Beato, 1860s

Notes and References

1. Book: Richard Tames . Traveller's History of Japan . 2008 . 4th . . USA . 978-1-56656-404-5 . Chronology . https://books.google.com/books?id=xIPs5fF2ehUC&pg=PA243 . 243+ . registration .
2. Book: Kenneth Henshall. Historical Dictionary of Japan to 1945 . 2014. . USA . 978-0-8108-7872-3 . Chronology . https://books.google.com/books?id=tmYYAgAAQBAJ&pg=PR15.
3. Web site: Timeline . 2004 . USA . Public Broadcasting Service . Japan: Memoirs of a Secret Empire .
4. Book: James L. Huffman. Creating a Public: People and Press in Meiji Japan. 1997. University of Hawaii Press. 978-0-8248-1882-1.
5. Book: W.N. Whitney. Concise Dictionary of the Principal Roads, Chief Towns and Villages of Japan. 1889 . Tokyo . . List of towns having population of over 10,000 . 2027/hvd.hnngzq?urlappend=%3Bseq=206. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.hnngzq?urlappend=%3Bseq=206 .
6. Book: Japan Year Book . 1905 . Tokyo . 2027/nyp.33433082441555?urlappend=%3Bseq=96 .
7. Web site: Institutions in Japan: Browse by Region (Kyushu-Okinawa) . Research Access in Japanese Museums, Libraries, and Archives Resources . North American Coordinating Council on Japanese Library Resources . July 30, 2015 .
8. Book: Y. Takenobu . Japan Year Book 1929 . 1928 . Tokyo . Population of the Cities . https://books.google.com/books?id=CJFKAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA45 .
9. News: Japan Profile: Timeline . BBC News . BBC News . 7 October 2011 . July 30, 2015.
10. Web site: Population of capital city and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants . Demographic Yearbook 1955 . . New York .
11. Web site: International Information: Sister City . Nagasaki City . July 30, 2015 .
12. Book: Vernon N. Kisling. Zoo and Aquarium History. 2000. . USA . 978-1-4200-3924-5 . Zoological Gardens of Japan (chronological list) . https://books.google.com/books?id=dxTrR5nOE0UC&pg=PA384 .
13. Book: https://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/products/dyb/1970_round.htm . Demographic Yearbook 1975 . 1976 . United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Statistical Office . New York . Population of capital city and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants . 253–279 .
14. Book: Europa World Year Book . 2004. . 978-1-85743-254-1 . Japan . https://books.google.com/books?id=wGA4o-UhAfgC&pg=PA2354 .
15. Web site: Population of Capital Cities and Cities of 100,000 or More Inhabitants . Demographic Yearbook 2013 . .