Year in Japan
1865 in Japanese History
16 recorded entries for this year. It falls in the Edo period (江戸時代, 1603 – 1868).
Era name: Keiō 慶応 (year 1 of the era)
What happened 出来事
- Keiō 慶応 · Japanese era name — Japanese era from May 1865 to October 1868
- Abe Isoo 安部磯雄 · Politician — Japanese politician
- Kan'in Kotohito 閑院宮載仁親王 · Military officer — Japanese prince and general (1865–1945)
- Kurakichi Shiratori 白鳥庫吉 · Historian — Japanese historian and sinologist (1865–1942)
- Murakami Kijō 村上鬼城 · Writer — Japanese poet and writer
- Fukuda Hideko 福田英子 · Writer — Japanese writer, educator and political activist (1865-1927)
- Okano Keijirō 岡野敬次郎 · Politician — Japanese legal scholar and politician (1865-1925)
- Sakuye Takahashi 高橋作衛 · Politician — Japanese legal scholar
- Taichiro Morinaga 森永太一郎 · Monk — Japanese philanthropist, confectioner (1865-1937)
- Sawayanagi Masatarō 澤柳政太郎 · Politician — Japanese educator and bureaucrat
- Jahana Noboru 謝花昇 · Politician — Japanese activist (1865-1908)
- Ōta Chōfu 太田朝敷 · Politician — Japanese politician
- Tokugawa Satotaka 徳川達孝 · Politician — Japanese politician
- Uchida Kōsai 内田康哉 · Politician — Japanese statesman, diplomat and interim prime minister (1865-1936)
- Ishibashi Ningetsu 石橋忍月 · Politician — Japanese writer (1865-1926)
- Mito Rebellion 天狗党の乱 · Rebellion — rebellion against the Shogunate 1864-65
Reading the year 1865 in Japanese
Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1865 corresponds to Keiō 慶応 (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 1865年 (1865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.