Year in Japan
1834 in Japanese History
11 recorded entries for this year. It falls in the Edo period (江戸時代, 1603 – 1868).
Era name: Tenpō 天保 (year 4 of the era)
What happened 出来事
- Kondō Isami 近藤勇 · Samurai — Japanese swordsman (1834–1868)
- Kawakami Gensai 河上彦斎 · Samurai — Japanese samurai of the late Edo period (1834-1872)
- Narahara Shigeru 奈良原繁 · Politician — Japanese politician
- Hashimoto Sanai 橋本左内 · Samurai — Japanese samurai of the late-Edo period
- Etō Shinpei 江藤新平 · Politician — Japanese politician (1834-1874)
- Kawaji Toshiyoshi 川路利良 · Politician — Japanese politician
- Matsudaira Yoritoshi 松平頼聰 · Samurai — [松平頼聰] daimyo of the late Edo period; 11th (the last) lord of Takamatsu
- Inaba Masakuni 稲葉正邦 · Samurai — daimyo
- Tanaka Chōbei 田中長兵衛 · Monk — Japanese businessman (1834–1901)
- Date Kuninao 伊達邦直 · Samurai — samurai
- Niwa Nagakuni 丹羽長国 · Samurai — daimyo of the late Edo period who ruled Nihonmatsu Domain (1834-1904)
Reading the year 1834 in Japanese
Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1834 corresponds to Tenpō 天保 (year 4 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 1834年 (1834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.