Japan Timeline

Timeline: A Comparative Perspective

Cultural China	Japan	Korea
ca. 2000-1600 B.C. Xia dynasty	ca. 10,000-300 B.C. Jomon
ca. 1600-1028 Shang dynasty
?1122-770 Western Zhou
770 - c. 256 Eastern Zhou
770-403 Spring & Autumn Annals
c. 403-221 Warring States period
c. 221-206 Qin dynasty	300 B.C. - ca. A.D. 250 Yayoi
206 B.C. - c. A.D. 8 Western Han	A.D. 250 - ca. 600 Kofun
A.D. 25 - 220 Eastern Han		? 57 B.C. - A.D. 935 Shilla Kingdom
c. 220 - c. 280 Three Kingdoms
c. 222 - 589 Six Dynasties	552 - 645 Asuka period
265-420 Jin dynasty
420-589 Southern & Northern dynasties	646 - 794 Nara period
c. 581-618 Sui dynasty	794 - 1185 Heian period
618 - c. 907 Tang dynasty
	1185 - 1333 Kamakura period	918 - 1392 Koryu Kingdom
960-1126 Northern Song dynasty	1333 - 1558 Ashikaga (aka Muromachi period)
c. 1127 - 1279 Southern Song	1558 - 1600 Warring States period
c. 1280 - 1368 Yuan (Mongol) dynasty	1600 - 1868 Tokugawa (aka Edo period)
1368 - c. 1644 Ming dynasty		1392 - 1910 Choson Kingdom
c. 1644 - 1912 Qing dynasty
1839 - 1842 Opium War; Hong Kong ceded to Britain	1868 - 1911 Meiji period
1912 - 1949 Republican China	1912 - 1926 Taisho (Yoshihito)	1910 - 1945 Colonization of Korea by Japan
1949 People's Republic of China proclaimed	1926 -1989 Showa (Hirohito)	1946 North Korea's Communist Party (Korean Workers' Party - KWP) inaugurated
1966 - 1976 Cultural Revolution	August 6, 1945, an atomic bomb was dropped at Hiroshima	1948 Democratic People's Republic of Korea proclaimed. Soviet troops withdraw.
	August 14, 1945, Japan surrendered to the Allied Forces	1950 South declares independence, sparking North Korean invasion.
		1953 Armistice ends Korean War, which has cost two million lives

	1989 - Heisei (Akihito)	1988 Seoul Olympics
		1991 North and South Korea join the United Nations




2008 Beijing Olympics

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