Year in Japan

1803 in Japanese History

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

Era name: Kyōwa 享和 (year 3 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Matsudaira Katahiro 松平容衆 · Samurai — Japanese daimyo of the late Edo period (1803–1822)
Niwa Nagatomi 丹羽長富 · Samurai — daimyo
Itakura Katsutsune 板倉勝職 · Samurai — Japanese Daimyo

Reading the year 1803 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1803 corresponds to Kyōwa 享和 (year 3 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 1803年 (1803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.