Year in Japan
1842 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 12 of the era)
What happened 出来事
- Ōyama Iwao 大山巌 · Military officer — Japanese general (1842-1916)
- Yoshikawa Akimasa 芳川顕正 · Politician — Japanese politician (1842-1920)
- Nomura Yasushi 野村靖 · Politician — Japanese politician (1842–1909)
- Hayashi Yūzō 林有造 · Politician — Japanese politician
- Ebara Soroku 江原素六 · Politician — Japanese politician
- Asano Nagakoto 浅野長勲 · Politician — daimyō of Hiroshima Domain
- Ōkubo Tadanori 大久保忠礼 · Samurai — Japanese noble
- Makuzu Kozan 宮川香山 · Monk — Japanese artist (1842–1916)
- Okita Sōji 沖田総司 · Samurai — Japanese swordsman
- Hiroshige III 三代目 歌川広重 · Painter — Japanese ukiyo-e artist (1842-1894)
- Kajiwara Heima 梶原平馬 · Samurai — samurai
Reading the year 1842 in Japanese
Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1842 corresponds to Tenpō 天保 (year 12 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 1842年 (1842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.