Year in Japan

1819 in Japanese History

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

Era name: Bunsei 文政 (year 2 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Abe Masahiro 阿部正弘 · Politician — Japanese politician (1819-1857)
Mōri Takachika 毛利敬親 · Samurai — daimyo (1819–1871)
Andō Nobumasa 安藤信正 · Samurai — daimyo (1820–1871)
Kuze Hirochika 久世広周 · Samurai — daimyo (1819-1864)

Reading the year 1819 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1819 corresponds to Bunsei 文政 (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 1819年 (1819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.