Year in Japan
1840 in Japanese History
14 recorded entries for this year. It falls in the Edo period (江戸時代, 1603 – 1868).
Era name: Tenpō 天保 (year 10 of the era)
What happened 出来事
- Shibusawa Eiichi 渋沢栄一 · Politician — Japanese industrialist known as the "father of Japanese capitalism" (1840-1931)
- Kuroda Kiyotaka 黒田清隆 · Politician — Japanese general (1840-1900)
- Shimazu Tadayoshi 島津忠義 · Politician — [島津忠義] daimyo of the late-Edo period and peerage of the Empire of Japan
- Nozu Michitsura 野津道貫 · Politician — Japanese politician (1840-1908)
- Iwamura Michitoshi 岩村通俊 · Politician — Japanese politician (1840–1915)
- Tokudaiji Sanetsune 徳大寺実則 · Politician — Japanese politician
- Akira Matsura 松浦詮 · Politician — daimyo of the late-Edo period, the last lord of Hirado
- Tsugaru Tsuguakira 津軽承昭 · Samurai — Japanese Daimyo (1840-1916)
- Tsugaru Tsugumichi 津軽承叙 · Politician — Japanese politician (1840-1903)
- Atomi Kakei 跡見花蹊 · Painter — Japanese pedagogue, painter, and calligrapher (1840-1926)
- Fujii Tsutomu 藤井勉三 · Politician — Japanese politician
- Harada Sanosuke 原田左之助 · Samurai — samurai (1840–1868)
- Hirosada II 歌川貞広 (2代目) · Painter — Japanese painter (1840-1910)
- Gotō Morinori 五島盛徳 · Samurai — daimyo (1840-1875)
Reading the year 1840 in Japanese
Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1840 corresponds to Tenpō 天保 (year 10 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 1840年 (1840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.