Japan Forces Open Korea
February 27, 1876
The Meiji government, using the same gunboat tactics that had been used on them in 1854, forced the Joseon court to sign the Treaty of Ganghwa, opening three Korean ports to Japanese trade. It was Japan's first imperialist act. Korea's long insulation was ending, and the struggle between Japan, China, and Russia for the peninsula had begun.
In context
Also in 1876 (3 other events on record)
- Bell's Telephone · North America · Technology
- Little Bighorn · North America · War
- Queen Victoria Empress of India · South Asia · Politics
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Era
Industrial Age (1801–1900), one of 513 events from that era on Saeculum.