Year in Japan
1779 in Japanese History
2 recorded entries for this year. It falls in the Edo period (江戸時代, 1603 – 1868).
Era name: An'ei 安永 (year 8 of the era)
What happened 出来事
- Keibun 松村景文 · Painter — Japanese painter (1779-1843)
- Tokugawa Narimasa 徳川斉匡 · Samurai — samurai (1779-1848)
Reading the year 1779 in Japanese
Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1779 corresponds to An'ei 安永 (year 8 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 1779年 (1779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.