Tosa clan samurai led by GOTO Shojiro recommend to previous clan lord YAMAUCHI Toyoshige the restoration of political power to the EmperorĮmperor issues edict terminating the Tokugawa Shogunate Satsuma and Choshu clans sign secret pact to topple the Tokugawa Shogunate (continued until II's assassination for signing the treaty without the Emperor's permission, in the Sakurada Gate Incident of March 24, 1860, or Man'en 1)įorbidden Gates Incident ('Kinmon no Hen'), leading to the expulsion of the advocates of 'respect the Emperor and expel the barbarians' from the Imperial Court Start of the 'Ansei no Taigoku' purge of over 100 people from the shogunate, various clans, and the Imperial court by Tokugawa Regent II Naosuke to quell opposition to his handling of the shogunal succession and the treaty with the U.S. Signing of the U.S.-Japan Treaty of Amity and Commerce
Signing of the U.S.-Japan Treaty of Peace and AmityĬopy of the U.S.-Japan Treaty of Peace and Amity Perry revisits Japan, and begins talks the following month with shogunate representatives in the village of Yokohama 'Gasshukoku Shokan Wage' 'Translations of Letters from the United States ' East India Fleet led by Commodore Matthew Perry arrives in Uraga Harbor HOME > Chronological Table Ka'ei-Keio Year
