Year in Japan
1851 in Japanese History
10 recorded entries for this year. It falls in the Edo period (江戸時代, 1603 – 1868).
Era name: Kaei 嘉永 (year 4 of the era)
What happened 出来事
- Iwasaki Yanosuke 岩崎弥之助 · Politician — Japanese banker
- Matsudaira Tadakazu 松平忠和 · Samurai — daimyo of the late Edo period; 8th and final lord of Shimabara (1851-1917)
- Isawa Shūji 伊沢修二 · Politician — Japanese educator and bureaucrat
- Inoue Hikaru 井上光 · Samurai — Japanese general (1851-1908)
- Hattori Ichizō 服部一三 · Politician — Japanese bureaucrat
- Yoriyuki Kuroda 黒田和志 · Politician — 8 Sep 1851 - 21 Jan 1917
- Terada Yushi 寺田祐之 · Politician — Japanese politician (1851-1917)
- Hijikata Katsunaga 土方雄永 · Samurai — daimyo who ruled the Komono Domain of Ise Province (1851–1884)
- Kiyohide Seki 関清英 · Politician — Japanese politician (1851-1927)
- Yusuke Hashiba 羽柴雄輔 · Historian — Japanese archaeologist, historian and anthropologist (1851-1921)
Reading the year 1851 in Japanese
Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1851 corresponds to Kaei 嘉永 (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 1851年 (1851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.