Year in Japan
1879 in Japanese History
9 recorded entries for this year. It falls in the Meiji period (明治時代, 1868 – 1912).
Era name: Meiji era 明治 (year 12 of the era)
What happened 出来事
- Emperor Taishō 大正天皇 · Politician — Emperor of Japan from 1912 until 1926
- Hisaichi Terauchi 寺内寿一 · Politician — Japanese general (1879-1946)
- Takashi Nagatsuka 長塚節 · Writer — Japanese writer (1879-1915)
- Hajime Kawakami 河上肇 · Journalist — Japanese economist, activist and writer (1879–1946)
- Fusanosuke Gotō 後藤房之助 · Politician — Japanese soldier, survivor of Hakkōda Mountains incident
- Eiichi Baba 馬場鍈一 · Politician — Japanese bureaucrat, banker, cabinet minister (1879-1937)
- Koyata Iwasaki 岩崎小弥太 · Monk — Japanese businessperson (1879-1945)
- Shigure Hasegawa 長谷川時雨 · Writer — Japanese writer
- Tomita Keisen 冨田溪仙 · Painter — painter (1879-1936)
Reading the year 1879 in Japanese
Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1879 corresponds to Meiji era 明治 (year 12 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 1879年 (1879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.