Events in the year 1837 in Japan.

Incumbents

  • Monarch: Ninkō

Events

  • July – Morrison incident: A US ship is fired on by cannon when entering Tokyo Bay while attempting to repatriate castaway Japanese citizens.
  • Tenpō famine which began in 1833 comes to an end.

Births

  • 28 October – Tokugawa Yoshinobu, 15th and last Tokugawa shogunate (d. 1913)

References


Japan 1837 flag chart The Flags of The Principal Nations In the

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Japan, circa 1707

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