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Year in Japan

1852 in Japanese History

13 recorded entries for this year. It falls in the Edo period (江戸時代, 1603 – 1868).

Era name: Kaei 嘉永 (year 5 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Reading the year 1852 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1852 corresponds to Kaei 嘉永 (year 5 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 1852年 (1852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.