Timeline of Nagasaki
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Nagasaki, Japan.
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Prior to 20th century
20th century
- 1902 - Tōyō Hinode Shimbun (newspaper) begins publication.
- 1903 - Population: 151,727.[10]
- 1905
- 1915 - Nagasaki Electric Tramway begins operating.
- 1923 - Nagasaki Medical College established.[11]
- 1925 - Population: 189,071.[12]
- 1945 - August 9: Atomic bombing of Nagasaki by US forces.[13]
- 1949 - Nagasaki University established.
- 1955 - Sister city relationship established with Saint Paul, United States.[14]
- 1957 - Glover house (museum) opens.
- 1959 - Nagasaki Aquarium founded.[15]
- 1970 - Population: 495,445.
- 1972 - Sister city relationship established with Santos, Brazil.[14]
- 1978 - Sister city relationships established with Middelburg, Netherlands, and Porto, Portugal.[14]
- 1979 - Hitoshi Motoshima becomes mayor.
- 1980
- Nagasaki Bio Park founded.[15]
- Sister city relationship established with Fuzhou, China.[14]
- Population: 502,799.
- 1990 - January 18: 1990 Nagasaki shooting incident, targeting mayor Motoshima.
- 1995 - Iccho Itoh becomes mayor.
- 1996 - Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum built.
21st century
- 2000 - Population: 423,163.[16]
- 2001 - Nagasaki Penguin Aquarium opens.
- 2002 - Use of Nagasaki Smart Card on public transit begins.
- 2005
- 2007
- April 17: 2007 Nagasaki shooting incident, fatally targeting mayor Itoh.
- April 22: Tomihisa Taue becomes mayor.
- 2010 - Population: 443,766.[17]
See also
References
This article incorporates information from the Japanese Wikipedia.
Bibliography
- Published in the 19th century
- G.F. Meijlan (1830). "Stad Nagasaky". In J.H. Tobias. Japan (in Dutch). Amsterdam: M. Westerman & Zoon – via Hathi Trust.
- Philipp Franz von Siebold (1841). "(Town of Nagasaki)". Manners and Customs of the Japanese, in the Nineteenth Century. London: John Murray – via Hathi Trust.
- William Henry Overall, ed. (1870). "Nagasaki". Dictionary of Chronology. London: William Tegg.
- John Ramsay McCulloch (1880), "Nagasaki", in Hugh G. Reid, A Dictionary, Practical, Theoretical and Historical of Commerce and Commercial Navigation, London: Longmans, Green, and Co. – via Internet Archive
- Published in the 20th century
- Engelbert Kaempfer (1906). "Of Nagasacki". History of Japan 2. Translated by Johann Caspar Scheuchzer. Glasgow: James MacLehose and Sons. (first published in 1727)
- "Nagasaki", Encyclopaedia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424
- "Nagasaki (Hizen)", Handbook for Travellers in Japan (9th ed.), London: J. Murray, 1913
- T. Philip Terry (1914), "Nagasaki", Terry's Japanese Empire, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, LCCN 14005129
- Diego Pacheco (1970). "Founding of the Port of Nagasaki and its Cession to the Society of Jesus". Monumenta Nipponica 25. JSTOR 2383539.
- Schellinger and Salkin, ed. (1996). "Nagasaki". International Dictionary of Historic Places: Asia and Oceania. UK: Routledge. p. 612+. ISBN 9781884964046.
- Published in the 21st century
- Reinier H. Hesselink (2004). "Two Faces of Nagasaki: The World of the Suwa Festival Screen". Monumenta Nipponica 59. JSTOR 25066290.
- Hugh Cortazzi, ed. (2012). "Nagasaki". Victorians in Japan: In and Around the Treaty Ports. Bloomsbury. pp. 3–32. ISBN 978-1-78093-977-3. (first published in 1987)
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