Year in Japan
1846 in Japanese History
12 recorded entries for this year. It falls in the Edo period (江戸時代, 1603 – 1868).
Era name: Kōka 弘化 (year 2 of the era)
What happened 出来事
- Hachisuka Mochiaki 蜂須賀茂韶 · Politician — Japanese politician (1846-1918)
- Prince Komatsu Akihito 小松宮彰仁親王 · Politician — Japanese prince
- Keijirō Amenomiya 雨宮敬次郎 · Monk — Japanese businessperson (1846-1911)
- Nabeshima Naohiro 鍋島直大 · Politician — the 11th and final daimyō of Saga Domain in Hizen Province, Kyūshū, Japan
- Matsuoka Yasutake 松岡康毅 · Politician — Japanese politician (1846-1923)
- Kunitake Watanabe 渡辺国武 · Politician — Japanese politician
- Katō Yasuaki 加藤泰秋 · Politician — 13th daimyo of Ōzu Domain, Japan
- Toyonori Yamanouchi 山内豊範 · Monk — Japanese businessperson and nobleman
- Nishi Kanjirō 西寛二郎 · Samurai — Japanese general
- Itakura Katsusuke 板倉勝弼 · Samurai — Japanese samurai
- Yamada Haruzo 山田春三 · Politician — Japanese politician (1846-1921)
- Mitsukuri Rinshō 箕作麟祥 · Politician — Japanese politician (1846-1897)
Reading the year 1846 in Japanese
Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1846 corresponds to Kōka 弘化 (year 2 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 1846年 (1846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.