Year in Japan
1860 in Japanese History
10 recorded entries for this year. It falls in the Edo period (江戸時代, 1603 – 1868).
Era name: Man'en 万延 (year 1 of the era)
What happened 出来事
- Man'en 万延 · Japanese era name — Japanese era from April 1860 to March 1861
- Kanō Jigorō 嘉納治五郎 · Politician — Japanese educator and judoka (1860–1938)
- Katō Takaaki 加藤高明 · Politician — Japanese politician (1860-1926)
- Shiba Gorō 柴五郎 · Writer — Japanese general (1860-1945)
- Hozumi Yatsuka 穂積八束 · Politician — Japanese legal scholar
- Miyake Setsurei 三宅雪嶺 · Philosopher — Japanese philosopher
- Nezu Kaichirō 根津嘉一郎 · Politician — Japanese politician and businessperson (1860-1940)
- Aruga Nagao 有賀長雄 · Historian — Japanese jurist and historian (1860-1921)
- Okuda Yoshito 奥田義人 · Politician — Japanese legal scholar and politician
- Ichiro Yoda 依田銈次郎 · Politician — Japanese lawyer
Reading the year 1860 in Japanese
Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1860 corresponds to Man'en 万延 (year 1 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 1860年 (1860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.