Tokyo
City
Capital of Japan since 1868; called Edo when it was the seat of the Tokugawa shoguns.
Names
- until September 3, 1868 Edo
Held by
- since 1789 Japan
Capital of
- 1603 – 1868 Japan
- 1868 – 1943 Japan
- since 1943 Japan
- Tokugawa shogunate Seat of the shogunate, called Edo; the emperor stayed in Kyoto
Events here 24
- 1858 Ansei Treaties
- August 26, 1858 Anglo-Japanese Treaty of Amity and Commerce
- October 9, 1858 Treaty of Amity and Commerce between France and Japan
- March 24, 1860 Sakuradamon Incident (1860)
- January 27, 1868 – June 27, 1869 Boshin War
- February 11, 1889 Meiji Constitution
- April 23, 1895 Triple Intervention
- April 25, 1898 Nishi–Rosen Agreement
- September 5, 1905 Hibiya incendiary incident
- July 1918 – September 1918 Rice riots of 1918
- February 1932 – March 1932 League of Blood Incident
- May 15, 1932 May 15 incident
- February 26–29, 1936 February 26 incident
- September 1, 1939 – September 2, 1945 World War II
- April 18, 1942 Bombing of Tokyo
- March 10, 1945 Bombing of Tokyo (10 March 1945)
- August 15, 1945 Kyūjō incident
- April 29, 1946 – November 12, 1948 International Military Tribunal for the Far East
- May 1, 1952 Bloody May Day (1952)
- November 25, 1970 Mishima incident
- March 20, 1995 Tokyo subway sarin attack
- 2006 Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement
- February 1, 2019 Japan–European Union Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement
- April 30 – May 1, 2019 2019 Japanese imperial transition