Year in Japan

1802 in Japanese History

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

Era name: Kyōwa 享和 (year 2 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Date Munehiro 伊達千広 · Historian — Japanese samurai, writer and historian (1802-1877)
Ryūsai Shigeharu 柳斎重春 · Painter — Japanese artist

Reading the year 1802 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1802 corresponds to Kyōwa 享和 (year 2 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 1802年 (1802ねん) in modern Japanese. Browse the full timeline to see where this year sits in the wider arc, or the 19th century for its neighbours.