Year in Japan

1751 in Japanese History

4 recorded entries for this year. It falls in the Edo period (江戸時代, 1603 – 1868).

Era name: Hōreki 宝暦 (year 1 of the era)

What happened 出来事

May 21 1751 Takada earthquake 宝暦高田地震 · Natural disaster — On May 21, 1751, a magnitude 7.0–7.4 earthquake struck near Takada in present-day Jōetsu City, Niiga
Hōreki 宝暦 · Japanese era name — Japanese era from December 1751 to June 1764
Uesugi Harunori 上杉治憲 · Samurai — 9th head of the Yonezawa domain
Matsudaira Harusato 松平治郷 · Samurai — daimyo

Reading the year 1751 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1751 corresponds to Hōreki 宝暦 (year 1 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 1751年 (1751ねん) in modern Japanese. Browse the full timeline to see where this year sits in the wider arc, or the 18th century for its neighbours.