Year in Japan
1844 in Japanese History
15 recorded entries for this year. It falls in the Edo period (江戸時代, 1603 – 1868).
Era name: Tenpō 天保 (year 14 of the era)
What happened 出来事
- Negishi Shingorō 根岸信五郎 · Samurai — Japanese swordsman (1844-1913)
- Saitō Hajime 斎藤一 · Samurai — Japanese swordsman (1844–1915)
- Mutsu Munemitsu 陸奥宗光 · Politician — Japanese diplomat (1844-1897)
- Nabeshima Naoyoshi 鍋島直彬 · Politician — Japanese politician (1844–1915)
- Uesugi Mochinori 上杉茂憲 · Politician — Last daimyo of Yonezawa han in Dewa Province
- Yamada Akiyoshi 山田顕義 · Politician — Japanese politician (1844-1892)
- Kōno Bairei 幸野楳嶺 · Painter — Japanese artist (1844-1895)
- Makino Tadakuni 牧野忠訓 · Samurai — daimyo (1844-1875)
- Kōno Togama 河野敏鎌 · Politician — Japanese politician
- Ōkōchi Masatada 大河内正質 · Politician — Japanese politician
- Tokuhisa Tsunenori 徳久恒範 · Politician — politician
- Nakajima Utako 中島歌子 · Writer — Japanese writer (1845–1903)
- Matsudaira Nobutsune 松平信庸 (上山藩主) · Samurai — [松平信庸] daimyo of the late Edo period; 9th lord of Kaminoyama
- Robert Walker Irwin ロバート・W・アーウィン · Politician — Hawaiian politician (1844-1925)
- Nabeshima Miki 鍋島幹 · Politician — politician
Reading the year 1844 in Japanese
Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1844 corresponds to Tenpō 天保 (year 14 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 1844年 (1844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.