Year in Japan
1824 in Japanese History
6 recorded entries for this year. It falls in the Edo period (江戸時代, 1603 – 1868).
Era name: Bunsei 文政 (year 7 of the era)
What happened 出来事
- Ōmura Masujirō 大村益次郎 · Politician — Japanese politician (1824-1869)
- Tokugawa Yoshikatsu 徳川慶勝 · Samurai — daimyo (1824–1883)
- Makino Tadayuki 牧野忠恭 · Samurai — Japanese noble
- Akizuki Teijirō 秋月悌次郎 · Philosopher — Japanese samurai (1824-1900)
- Kuni Asahiko 久邇宮朝彦親王 · Politician — Japanese prince
- Ogasawara Nagakuni 小笠原長国 · Samurai — daimyo
Reading the year 1824 in Japanese
Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1824 corresponds to Bunsei 文政 (year 7 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 1824年 (1824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.