Industrial Age · East Asia · Politics

1868

Meiji Restoration

January 3, 1868

Samurai from the western domains of Satsuma and Chōshū overthrew the Tokugawa shogunate and restored imperial rule under the fifteen-year-old Emperor Meiji. Within a generation, Japan would abolish feudalism, build railways, adopt a constitution, and defeat a European power in war. No nation in history had reinvented itself so fast or so completely.

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Before and after in East Asia

Before: July 19, 1864: Fall of Nanjing
After: April 28, 1870: Dogali Falls in Japan's Reforms

Before and after in Politics

Before: 1867: Marx Publishes Capital
After: April 28, 1870: Dogali Falls in Japan's Reforms

Era

Industrial Age (1801–1900), one of 513 events from that era on Saeculum.

Sources

Wikipedia: Meiji Restoration