Shogun Timeline - Timeline

The First Capital of Japan is based in the city of Nara and is ruled by the imperial family

Under Orders from emperor Kammu the capital of Japan is moved to the city of Heian-Kyo (modern day Kyoto) and remains the capital for the next 1000 years

The Minamoto Clan seizes power from the emperor. Minamoto no Yoritomo becomes Shogun and establishes his own capitol in Kamkura Japan is ruled by shoguns for the next 700 years

The Mongol army launches an attack on Japan but fails after a typhoon destroys many of their ships

The Mongol army launches a second and much bigger attack on Japan and once again must retreat after most of their forces are wiped out by a typhoon

Emperor Go-Daigo overthrows the kamkura shogunate and takes back power

Ashikaga Takauji seizes power from the emperor Go-Daigo and becomes the new shogun

A period of civil war breaks out, it is known as the warring states period and is between two rival warlords and last for around 100 years.

William Adams is the first English sailor and navigator to vist Japan and befriends him and later becomes a key advisor to him

Tokugawa Leyasu Becomes Shogun and establishes a base in the city of Edo (Tokyo)

The Sakoku (locked country) policy is introduced

a policy to reduce logging is introduced

logging in Japan has been reduced by 60 percent so Japan's forests can recover

The Sakoku policy is lifted

Matthew Perry arrives in Japan to convince Japan to open its borders to trade

The last Shogun hands power back to the imperial family

The Nara Period

The Heian period

The Kamkura period

Muromachi period

Azuchi-Momoyama period

Tokugawa (or Edo) period