Year in Japan
1880 in Japanese History
10 recorded entries for this year. It falls in the Meiji period (明治時代, 1868 – 1912).
Era name: Meiji era 明治 (year 13 of the era)
What happened 出来事
- Osami Nagano 永野修身 · Military officer — Fleet admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy (1880-1947)
- Mitsumasa Yonai 米内光政 · Politician — Prime Minister of Japan (1880-1948)
- Goyō Hashiguchi 橋口五葉 · Painter — Japanese artist (1880-1921)
- Nobumasa Suetsugu 末次信正 · Politician — Japanese admiral (1880-1944)
- Gorō Yamamoto 山本五郎 · Monk — Japanese businessman
- Shikō Imamura 今村紫紅 · Painter — Japanese artist (1880-1916)
- Tatsunosuke Yamazaki 山崎達之輔 · Politician — Japanese politician (1880-1948)
- Mitsusada Umetani 梅谷光貞 · Politician — politician
- Hajime Sugiyama 杉山元 · Politician — Imperial Japanese field marshal (1880–1945)
- Kuraji Ishigaki 石垣倉治 · Politician — Japanese politician
Reading the year 1880 in Japanese
Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1880 corresponds to Meiji era 明治 (year 13 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 1880年 (1880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.