Year in Japan
1833 in Japanese History
8 recorded entries for this year. It falls in the Edo period (江戸時代, 1603 – 1868).
Era name: Tenpō 天保 (year 3 of the era)
What happened 出来事
- Kido Takayoshi 木戸孝允 · Politician — Japanese samurai of the Mito Domain and one of the three great nobles who led the Meiji Restoration
- Ōtori Keisuke 大鳥圭介 · Historian — Japanese military leader and diplomat
- Hayashi Gakusai 林学斎 · Philosopher — Japanese writer (1833-1906)
- Hijikata Hisamoto 土方久元 · Politician — Japanese noble (1833–1918)
- Mizuno Tadakiyo 水野忠精 · Samurai — daimyo (1833-1884)
- Hoshina Masaari 保科正益 · Samurai — Last daimyo of the Iino Domain (1833-1888)
- Yamada Nobumichi 山田信道 · Politician — Japanese politician
- Yamazaki Susumu 山崎烝 · Samurai — Japanese spy
Reading the year 1833 in Japanese
Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1833 corresponds to Tenpō 天保 (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 1833年 (1833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.