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This is a timeline of Japanese history, comprising important legal, ... 16th century. Year Date Event 1523:
The Sengoku period (戦国時代, Sengoku jidai, lit. ' Warring States period ') is the period in Japanese history in which civil wars and social upheavals took place almost continuously in the 15th and 16th centuries.
Japan suffered a severe civil war at this time, known as the Sengoku period, ... Timelines of 16th century events, science, culture and persons This page was ...
16th-century Japanese people (7 C, 83 P) S. Sengoku period (9 C, 39 P) Y. Years of the 16th century in Japan (67 C, 2 P) Pages in category "16th century in Japan"
Nanban ships arriving for trade in Japan. 16th-century painting. By the end of the Muromachi period, the first Europeans had arrived. The Portuguese landed in Tanegashima south of Kyūshū in 1543 and within two years were making regular port calls, initiating the century-long Nanban trade period.
During the second half of the 16th century, Japan gradually reunified under two powerful warlords: Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi. The period takes its name from Nobunaga's headquarters, Azuchi Castle, and Hideyoshi's headquarters, Momoyama Castle. [72] Japan in 1582, showing territory conquered by Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi in gray
In the second half of the 16th century, Japan was first fully unified by daimyō Oda Nobunaga and then by Toyotomi Hideyoshi. [45] The third daimyō who unified Japan was Tokugawa Ieyasu after the Battle of Sekigahara in 1600. This resulted in 268 years of uninterrupted rule by the Tokugawa clan. [46]
16th; 17th; 18th; 19th; 20th; 21st; Japan portal; ... Pages in category "Years of the 16th century in Japan" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total.