Timeline of Nagasaki

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

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Prior to 20th century

• 1571 - Port of Nagasaki established; opens to foreign ships.[1]
• 1597 - 26 Christians executed.[2]
• 1614 - Suwa Shrine built.
• 1626 - Nagasaki Kunchi (shrine festival) begins.[3]
• 1634 - Megane Bridge built.
• 1637 - Shimabara Rebellion occurs near Nagasaki.[4]
• 1638 - Sannō Shrine founded.
• 1641 - "Dutch Confined to Dejima Island" in Nagasaki harbor.[5]
• 1855 - "Modern shipbuilding yard" established.[6]
• 1858 - Port opened to foreign trade.[7]
• 1861 - Nagasaki Shipping List and Advertiser begins publication.[8]
• 1865 - Catholic Ōura Church built.[6]
• 1876 - Saikai Shimbun (newspaper) begins publication.[8]
• 1887 - Population: 40,187.[9]
• 1888 - Sakamoto International Cemetery established.
• 1893 - Mitsubishi Nagasaki Zosensho (shipyard) active.[6]
• 1898 - Kyushu Tosu-Nogasaki railway begins operating.

20th century

• 1902 - Tōyō Hinode Shimbun (newspaper) begins publication.
• 1903 - Population: 151,727.[10]
• 1905
  • Nagasaki Station opens.
  • Nagasaki Higher Commercial School founded.[11]
• 1915 - Nagasaki Electric Tramway begins operating.
• 1923 - Nagasaki Medical College established.[11]
• 1925 - Population: 189,071.[12]
• 1945
  • August 9: Atomic bombing of Nagasaki by US forces.[13]
  • Population: 142,748.[14]
• 1949 - Nagasaki University established.
• 1950 - Population: 241,805.[14]
• 1955 - Sister city relationship established with Saint Paul, United States.[15]
• 1957 - Glover house (museum) opens.
• 1959 - Nagasaki Aquarium founded.[16]
• 1972 - Sister city relationship established with Santos, Brazil.[15]
• 1974 - Population: 445,655.[17]
• 1978 - Sister city relationships established with Middelburg, Netherlands, and Porto, Portugal.[15]
• 1979 - Hitoshi Motoshima becomes mayor.
• 1980
  • Nagasaki Bio Park founded.[16]
  • Sister city relationship established with Fuzhou, China.[15]
  • Population: 502,799.
• 1990 - January 18: 1990 Nagasaki shooting incident, targeting mayor Motoshima.
• 1995 - Iccho Itoh becomes mayor.
• 1996 - Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum built.
• 2000 - Population: 423,163.[18]

21st century

• 2001 - Nagasaki Penguin Aquarium 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.[15]
• 2007
  • April 17: 2007 Nagasaki shooting incident, fatally targeting mayor Itoh.
  • April 22: Tomihisa Taue becomes mayor.
• 2010 - Population: 443,766.[19]

See also

• Nagasaki history
• Timeline of Nagasaki (in Japanese)
• List of mayors of Nagasaki

References

1. Pacheco 1970.
2. Richard Tames (2008). "Chronology". Traveller's History of Japan (4th ed.). USA: Interlink Books. p. 243+. ISBN 978-1-56656-404-5.
3. Hesselink 2004.
4. Kenneth Henshall (2014). "Chronology". Historical Dictionary of Japan to 1945. USA: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-7872-3.
5. "Timeline". Japan: Memoirs of a Secret Empire. USA: Public Broadcasting Service. 2004.
6. Schellinger 1996.
7. Overall 1870.
8. James L. Huffman (1997). Creating a Public: People and Press in Meiji Japan. University of Hawaii Press. ISBN 978-0-8248-1882-1.
9. W.N. Whitney, ed. (1889). "List of towns having population of over 10,000". Concise Dictionary of the Principal Roads, Chief Towns and Villages of Japan. Tokyo: Z.P. Maruya and Co..
10. Japan Year Book. Tokyo. 1905.
11. "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. Retrieved July 30, 2015.
12. Y. Takenobu (1928). "Population of the Cities". Japan Year Book 1929. Tokyo.
13. BBC News. "Japan Profile: Timeline". Retrieved July 30, 2015.
14. "Population of capital city and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 1955. New York: Statistical Office of the United Nations.
15. "International Information: Sister City". Nagasaki City. Retrieved July 30, 2015.
16. Vernon N. Kisling, ed. (2000). "Zoological Gardens of Japan (chronological list)". Zoo and Aquarium History. USA: CRC Press. ISBN 978-1-4200-3924-5.
17. United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Statistical Office (1976). "Population of capital city and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 1975. New York. pp. 253–279.
18. "Japan". Europa World Year Book. Europa Publications. 2004. ISBN 978-1-85743-254-1.
19. "Population of Capital Cities and Cities of 100,000 or More Inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 2013. United Nations Statistics Division.

This article incorporates information from the Japanese Wikipedia.

Bibliography

Published in the 19th century

• G.F. Meijlan (1830). "Stad Nagasaky". In J.H. Tobias (ed.). Japan (in Dutch). Amsterdam: M. Westerman & Zoon – via Hathi Trust.
• Philipp Franz von Siebold (1841). "(Town of Nagasaki)". Manners and Customs of the Japanese, in the Nineteenth Century. London: John Murray – via Hathi Trust.
• William Henry Overall, ed. (1870). "Nagasaki". Dictionary of Chronology. London: William Tegg.
• John Ramsay McCulloch (1880), "Nagasaki", in Hugh G. Reid (ed.), A Dictionary, Practical, Theoretical and Historical of Commerce and Commercial Navigation, London: Longmans, Green, and Co. – via Internet Archive

Published in the 20th century

• Engelbert Kaempfer (1906) [1727]. "Of Nagasacki". History of Japan. 2. Translated by Johann Caspar Scheuchzer. Glasgow: James MacLehose and Sons. (first published in 1727)
• "Nagasaki", Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), New York: New York : Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1910, OCLC 14782424
• "Nagasaki (Hizen)", Handbook for Travellers in Japan (9th ed.), London: J. Murray, 1913
• T. Philip Terry (1914), "Nagasaki", Terry's Japanese Empire, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, LCCN 14005129
• Diego Pacheco (1970). "Founding of the Port of Nagasaki and its Cession to the Society of Jesus". Monumenta Nipponica. 25 (3/4): 303–323. doi:10.2307/2383539. JSTOR 2383539.
• Schellinger; Salkin, eds. (1996). "Nagasaki". International Dictionary of Historic Places: Asia and Oceania. UK: Routledge. p. 612+. ISBN 9781884964046.

Published in the 21st century

• Reinier H. Hesselink (2004). "Two Faces of Nagasaki: The World of the Suwa Festival Screen". Monumenta Nipponica. 59 (2): 179–222. JSTOR 25066290.
• 'Hugh Cortazzi, ed. (2012). "Nagasaki". Victorians in Japan: In and Around the Treaty Ports. Bloomsbury. pp. 3–32. ISBN 978-1-78093-977-3. (first published in 1987)
• David Palmer (2016). "Nagasaki's Districts: Western Contact with Japan through the History of a City's Space". Journal of Urban History. 42.
• Geoffrey C. Gunn, World Trade Systems of the East and West: Nagasaki and the Asian Bullion Trade Networks (Leiden: Brill, 2017) ISBN 978-90-04-35855-3

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