Kansei Reforms Begin in Japan
1787
Matsudaira Sadanobu, rising to power in the shogunate, launched austerity measures against famine and urban unrest: debt cancellations for samurai, price controls, forced returns of peasants to villages, and bans on heterodox learning. Tokugawa Japan tightened its belt and its mind - a holding pattern that would last thirty years.
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Also in 1787 (4 other events on record)
- U.S. Constitution Signed · North America · Politics
- Constitutional Convention Opens in Philadelphia · North America · Politics
- Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade Founded · Europe · Politics
- Federalist Papers Begin Publication · North America · Politics
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