Year in Japan

1519 in Japanese History

4 recorded entries for this year. It falls in the Muromachi period (室町時代, 1336 – 1573).

Era name: Eishō 永正 (year 16 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Iwanari Tomomichi 石成友通 · Samurai — samurai
Ogasawara Nagatoki 小笠原長時 · Samurai — daimyo
Imagawa Yoshimoto 今川義元 · Samurai — Japanese daimyo of the Sengoku period
Date Harumune 伊達晴宗 · Samurai — daimyo

Reading the year 1519 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1519 corresponds to Eishō 永正 (year 16 of the era). Years are written with 年 (ねん, nen) — so 1600 appears as 慶長5年, "the fifth year of Keichō".

The year itself is read 1519年 (1519ねん) in modern Japanese. Browse the full timeline to see where this year sits in the wider arc, or the 16th century for its neighbours.