Year in Japan
1856 in Japanese History
14 recorded entries for this year. It falls in the Edo period (江戸時代, 1603 – 1868).
Era name: Ansei 安政 (year 2 of the era)
What happened 出来事
- Uehara Yūsaku 上原勇作 · Politician — Japanese general (1856-1933)
- Kazuo Hatoyama 鳩山和夫 · Politician — Japanese politician
- Hara Takashi 原敬 · Politician — Prime Minister of Japan from 1918 to 1921
- Inoue Tetsujirō 井上哲次郎 · Philosopher — Japanese philosopher (1856–1944)
- Yamamoto Tatsuo 山本達雄 · Politician — Japanese politician (1856-1947)
- Asai Chū 浅井忠 · Painter — Japanese artist (1856-1907)
- Dewa Shigetō 出羽重遠 · Samurai — Japanese admiral
- Tokitoshi Taketomi 武富時敏 · Politician — Japanese politician
- Inokuchi Ariya 井口在屋 · Monk — Japanese mechanical engineer
- Mizuno Tadahiro 水野忠弘 · Politician — Japanese nobleman
- Hirai Seijirō 平井晴二郎 · Politician — Japanese engineer
- Inoue Masaoto 井上正巳 · Samurai — daimyo (1856-1921)
- Nabeshima Naotora 鍋島直虎 · Politician — Japanese politician
- Kadono Ikunoshin 門野幾之進 · Politician — Japanese businessman and politician
Reading the year 1856 in Japanese
Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1856 corresponds to Ansei 安政 (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 1856年 (1856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.