Japan Timeline
- 1868: Meiji Restoration
- 1876: Japan employed gunboat diplomacy to force the Treaty of Kanghwa on Korea
- 1881: Japan sent military advisors to help modernize the army of the Korean court
- 1882: Anti-foreign opponents of the king killed several of the Japanese military advisors and took power in a coup
- 1885: Li-Ito agreement
- 1885: Japan’s first prime minister elected
- 1880-1890: The government funded a substantial buildup of the navy as well as the army
- 1890: Imperial re-script on education
- 1892: Second Diet election, It was particularly violent
- 1894: Japan attacks China
- 1895: Japan gains Taiwan in treaty of Shimonoseki
- 1896: The government sought new taxes
- 1900: Japan sent ten thousand troops to China to join the multinational force that put down the Boxer Rebellion
- 1904: Japan attacks Russia
- 1910: Japan Annexes Korea
- 1912: Rikken Doshikai created a new Katsure party
- 1912: Death of the Meiji emperor
- 1914: Japan declares war on Germany
- 1915: Japan issues twenty-one demands to China
- 1926: Death of Taisho emperor
- 1940: The Last Genro, Prince Saionjo, dies