may 1, 1854 - Convention Kanagawa
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Intimidated by Perry’s “Black Ships”, and mindful of what had happened to China which had attempted to resist the West and had been forced to sign a series of humiliating treaties, the ruling Shogun, Tokugawa Yoshinobu, signed the Treaty of Kanagawa with the USA in 1854Added to timeline:
Date:
may 1, 1854
Now
~ 171 years ago