Year in Japan
1526 in Japanese History
6 recorded entries for this year. It falls in the Muromachi period (室町時代, 1336 – 1573).
Era name: Daiei 大永 (year 6 of the era)
What happened 出来事
- Hachisuka Masakatsu 蜂須賀正勝 · Samurai — daimyo
- Ikoma Chikamasa 生駒親正 · Samurai — Japanese daimyō (1526–1603)
- Nagao Masakage 長尾政景 · Samurai — samurai
- Niiro Tadamoto 新納忠元 · Samurai — Japanese samurai (1526-1611)
- Akechi Mitsuhide 明智光秀 · Samurai — 16th-century samurai; assassin of Oda Nobunaga
- Azai Hisamasa 浅井久政 · Samurai — daimyo of the Sengoku period
Reading the year 1526 in Japanese
Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1526 corresponds to Daiei 大永 (year 6 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 1526年 (1526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.