Year in Japan
1814 in Japanese History
2 recorded entries for this year. It falls in the Edo period (江戸時代, 1603 – 1868).
Era name: Bunka 文化 (year 11 of the era)
What happened 出来事
- Nanbu Nobuyuki 南部信順 · Samurai — daimyo (1814–1872)
- Matsudaira Naritami 松平斉民 · Samurai — daimyo of the late Edo period; 8th load of Tsuyama domain (1814-1891)
Reading the year 1814 in Japanese
Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1814 corresponds to Bunka 文化 (year 11 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 1814年 (1814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.