Year in Japan
1868 in Japanese History
23 recorded entries for this year. It falls in the Meiji period (明治時代, 1868 – 1912).
Era name: Meiji era 明治 (year 1 of the era)
What happened 出来事
- Jan 31 Battle of Toba-Fushimi 鳥羽・伏見の戦い · Battle — 1868 battle
- Mar 29 Battle of Kōshū-Katsunuma 甲州勝沼の戦い · Battle — 1868 battle
- Jul 4 Battle of Ueno 上野戦争 · Battle — 1868 battle of the Boshin War
- Nov 6 Battle of Aizu 会津戦争 · Battle — 1868 battle of the Boshin War
- Nov 7 Battle of Noheji 野辺地戦争 · Battle — minor battle of the Boshin War, part of the larger Aizu campaign
- Meiji era 明治 · Japanese era name — Japanese era from October 1868 to July 1912
- Kantarō Suzuki 鈴木貫太郎 · Politician — 29th Prime Minister of Japan (1868-1948)
- Ozaki Kōyō 尾崎紅葉 · Writer — Japanese writer (1868-1903)
- Kitamura Tokoku 北村透谷 · Philosopher — Japanese literary critic and poet (1868-1894)
- Yamada Bimyō 山田美妙 · Writer — Japanese writer (1868–1910)
- Yorozu Oda 織田萬 · Politician — Japanese politician (1868-1945)
- Shōzō Arisaka 有坂鉊蔵 · Monk — Japanese admiral, engineer, professor emeritus of Imperial University of Tokyo (1868-1941)
- Sukehide Kabayama 樺山資英 · Politician — Japanese politician
- Momosuke Fukuzawa 福澤桃介 · Politician — Japanese businessman
- Setsu Koizumi 小泉節子 · Writer — Japanese writer (1868-1932)
- Mizuno Rentarō 水野錬太郎 · Politician — Japanese politician (1868–1949)
- Kawanabe Kyōsui 河鍋暁翠 · Painter — Japanese artist (1868-1935)
- Kintarō Yokoyama 横山金太郎 · Politician — Japanese politician
- Battle of Utsunomiya Castle 宇都宮城の戦い · Battle — 1868 battle
- Battle of Hakodate 箱館戦争 · Battle — last stage of the Boshin War, occurring around Hakodate in the northern Japanese island of Hokkaidō
- Matsui Keishirō 松井慶四郎 · Politician — Japanese politician
- Shimizu Shikin 清水紫琴 · Journalist — Japanese novelist and women's rights activist
- Yasuyoshi Shirasawa 白沢保美 · Politician — Japanese botanist (1868-1947)
Reading the year 1868 in Japanese
Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1868 corresponds to Meiji era 明治 (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 1868年 (1868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.