March Conspiracy Calendar

Gregorian

March 1

1709 - ★Edicts on Compassion for Living Things are abolished.
They are abolished 10 days after the death of shogun Tokugawa Tsunayoshi.
1815 - ★Napoleon returns to France from his banishment on Elba.
1868 - ★(birth) Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg.
1932 - ★Puyi is installed by the Japanese as the ruler of Manchukuo.
1932 - ★Charles Lindbergh's son is kidnapped.
1934 - ★Puyi is officially crowned the emperor of Manchukuo.
1973 - ★(birth) May Shigenobu, daughter of Japanese Red Army communist Fusako Shigenobu and of a Palestinian resistance fighter who was reportedly the head of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
2011 - ★Tokyo Sky Tree tops the 600-meter mark and reaches a height of 604 meters, beating Canton Tower and becoming the world's tallest tower.

Japanese Traditional Calendar

March 1

April 21, 1792 – ★(death) Tiradentes, a revolutionary in Brazil.
He leads a movement for Brazil's independence. He is hanged, drawn and quartered.
April 20, 1871 – ★Modern Postal Service is Introduced in Japan. The first stamps are issued.
April 20 has been Communications Commemoration Day since 1934.

※ It is said that Baron Maejima Hisoka founded the Japanese postal service. But on this day, he was in Great Britain for the study of the workings of the General Post Office. So, the person who actually introduced the modern postal service in Japan was Toshimich Okubo, the supervisor of Maejima.
April 12, 1945 - ★(death) Franklin D. Roosevelt, US President.
April 14, 2010 - ◆Yushu earthquake. Nearly 2,700 are killed (Yushu, Qinghai, China).
April 14, 2010 - ◆Eruptions of Eyjafjallajokull.
Although relatively small for volcanic eruptions, the eruptions cause enormous disruption to air travel across western and northern Europe over an initial period of six days.

Gregorian

March 2

754 - ★Jianzhen, a Chinese monk, meets with the Japanese emperor. Jianzhen helps to propagate Buddhism in Japan.

Japanese Traditional Calendar

March 2

March 19, 1474 - ★Venice passes the first-known written law to grant and protect patents.
April 22, 1947 - ★The Tokyo metropolitan Department introduces a polygraph machine.
April 4, 1973 – ☆The World Trade Center in New York is officially dedicated.
April 4, 1973 - ☆The Japanese Supreme Court makes a dicision which overrides an exisiting law for the first time.
I think it is a ridiculous decision. If the court has the power to ignore the existing law, the legislative body loses its raison d'etre. I don't think that the decision was made on the same day of the official dedication of the World Trade Center by chance. The decision symbolized Japan's determination to ignore existing laws.

Gregorian

March 3

Japanese Traditional Calendar

March 3

April 12, 1861 - ★The American Civil War begins with Confederate forces firing on Fort Sumter, in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina.

Gregorian

March 4

1910 - ★(birth) Tancredo Neves、President of Brazil.
1798 - ★Yushima seido, a Confucian shrine, goes under the control of the Tokugawa shogunate with the name of "Shoheizaka gakumonjo", literally meaning School at Shohei Slope.
1858 - ★(death) Matthew Perry, U.S. naval officer.
1881 - ★James Garfield takes office as US President.
1881 - ★Hawaiian King Kalakaua visits Japan during his world tour. Although the king proposes the marriage of his niece to a Japanese prince, Japan declines the proposal later.

Japanese Traditional Calendar

March 4

March 25, 2012 - ★Leung Chun-ying is elected Hong Kong's new chief executive.

Gregorian

March 5

1953 - ◆(death) Joseph Stalin, Georgian leader of the Soviet Union.
1953 - ◆(death) Sergei Prokofiev, Russian composer.
2005 - ★The Third Session of the 10th National People's Congress (NPC) opens (China).
2008 - ★The 1st Plenary Session of the 11th National People's Congress (China). (timeline)
During this session, on March 14, demonstrations by Tibetan separatists turn violent, and on March 15, Hu Jintao is elected to a second term as the President of China, and Xi Jinping is elected Vice-President.

Japanese Traditional Calendar

March 5

Gregorian

March 6

1172 - ★Taira Kiyomori’s daughter, Tokuko, becomes Emperor Takakura’s consort.
1903 - ★(birth) Empress Kōjun, empress consort of Emperor Shōwa of Japan.
1938 - ★(birth) Toshimi Kitazawa, a Japanese politician, Minister of Defense.

Japanese Traditional Calendar

March 6

April 1, 803 - ★General Sakanoue no Tamuramaro is ordered to conquer the Emishi, built Shiwa Castle in northern Japan.
April 11, 1970 - ★Apollo 13 is launched.
Apollo 13 is launched on April 11 at 13:13. But oxygen tank No. 2 blows up in the spacecraft on April 13 and the landing mission is aborted. However, it touches down safely in the Pacific Ocean on April 17. The mission is called "a successful failure".
April 8, 1973 - ★(death) Pablo Picasso, a Spanish painter, draughtsman, and sculptor. He is said to be around 160 cm tall. Japan is somewhat obsessed with him. He is probably a Japanese descent.

Gregorian

March 7 ⇒Detail

1866 - The Satcho Alliance is formed (Japan).
1873 - February 11 becomes the National Foundation Day in Japan.
1876 – Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for the telephone.
1904 – ◆(birth) Reinhard Heydrich, German Nazi SS senior officer.
1936 – Germany reoccupies the Rhineland in violation of the treaty.
1959 - (birth) Shinichi Takenaka, mayor of Akune City, Kagoshima.

Japanese Traditional Calendar

March 7 ⇒Detail

April 14, 1293 - ◆Chinzei Tandai is established in the northern part of Kyush, Japan.
April 22, 1904 - ◆(birth) J. Robert Oppenheimer, American physicist.
April 20, 1953 – ◆South Korean volunteer coastguards set up camp on Liancourt Rocks.
April 20, 1953 – ◆Japanese long-distance runner Keizo Yamada wins the Boston Marathon.
April 4, 1968 - ◆Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 6.
April 4, 1968 - ◆Martin Luther King, Jr. is assassinated.
April 15, 2005 - Doraemon anime series begins aring (Japan).
April 20, 2010 – Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explosion.

Gregorian

March 8 ⇒Detail

1909 - The amended metrology system law is promulgated (Japan).
1938 - ◆Japanese Major General Higuchi saves the lives of 20000 Jews.
1947 - The International Monetary Fund begins operations.

Japanese Traditional Calendar

March 8 ⇒Detail

April 9, 702 - Emperor Mommu creates unified measurement units.
April 8, 1938 - ◆(birth) Kofi Annan, Ghanaian United Nations Secretary General。
April 13, 1970 - An oxygen tank aboard Apollo 13 explodes, putting the crew in great danger.

Gregorian

March 9

1944 - ★The British steamer Behar is sunk by the Japanese heavy cruiser Tone.
Tone picks up 104 survivors. But, fearing detection, the Japanese force subsequently returns to the Netherlands East Indies on 16 March. Two days later, 89 of Behar's crew and passengers are murdered on board Tone. Following the war the commander of the raid, Rear Admiral Naomasa Sakonju, is executed for this war crime and Tone's captain, Haruo Mayazumi, is sentenced to seven years imprisonment.

Japanese Traditional Calendar

March 9

April 23, 1200 - ★(death) Zhu Xi, a Song Dynasty Confucian scholar.
Zhu Xi becomes the leading figure of the School of Principle and the most influential rationalist Neo-Confucian in China.
April 23, 1847 - ★Gakushuin Peers School is re-established (Kyoto, Japan).
April 17, 1986 - ★The Three Hundred and Thirty Five Years' War between the Netherlands and the Isles of Scilly ends.

Gregorian

March 10 ⇒Detail

1872 - ▲The Church of Christ in Japan is founded in Yokohama, Japan.
1905 - ◆The Russo-Japanese War (Japanese Army Day).
1912 - Yuan Shikai becomes the first President of the Republic of China.
1928 - ◆(birth) James Earl Ray, American assassin. He kills Martin Luther King Jr.
1928 - ◆(birth) Kiyoshi Atsumi, a Japanese film actor.
1936 - (birth) Sepp Blatter, President of FIFA.
1941 - The Peace Preservation Law is completely re-written.
1945 - The U.S. Army Air Force firebombs Tokyo.
1952 - ◆Fulgencio Batista leads a successful coup in Cuba.
1957 - ◆(birth) Osama bin Laden, Islamist and leader of al-Qaeda.
1959 - ▲Tibetan uprising (Tibetan Uprising Day).
1972 - ▲Four members of the Unit 684 trainees are executed (South Korea).
2008 - ▲Protests trigger a series of riots and violent clashes (Lhasa, Tibet).

Japanese Traditional Calendar

March 10 ⇒Detail

April 4, 1952 - ◆(birth) Bronisław Komorowski, President of Poland.
April 9, 1957 - ◆Heiwadai Park is designated as an urban park (Miyazaki Prefecture).
April 14, 1981 - (birth) Shinjiro Koizumi, a Japanese politician.

Gregorian

March 11 ⇒Detail

708 - Empress Gemmei orders to move the Imperial capital from Fujiwara-kyo to Heijo-kyo.
1901 - ◆(birth) Takeshi Mitarai, President of Canon (camera maker).
1901 - ◆The UK rejects the amended Hay-Pauncefote treaty.
1931 - ◆(birth) Rupert Murdoch, Australian-born entrepreneur.
1931 - ◆The GTO is introduced in the Soviet Union.
1983 - Empress Zita repeats the claim about the death of Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria.
1985 - Mikhail Gorbachev becomes General Secretary of the Communist Party of the USSR.
2004 - ★Madrid train bombings.
2004 - ★A first grade elementary school girl is killed by her neighbor.
2004 - ★Conflict about singing the "Kimigayo" national anthem during the graduation ceremony.
2011 - ◆Tohoku earthquake and tsunami.
2011 - ◆Incumbent Tokyo Governor Shintaro Ishihara confirms his candidacy for the next tenure.
2011 - ◆Saudi Arabia launches a massive security operation.

Japanese Traditional Calendar

March 11 ⇒Detail

April 9, 585BC - (death) Emperor Jimmu, the first Emperor of Japan.
April 10, 1794 - (birth) Matthew C. Perry, American commodore.
April 29, 1901 - (birth) Hirohito, Emperor of Japan. (timeline)
April 6, 2009 - L'Aquila earthquake.

Gregorian

March 12 ⇒Detail

1823 - (birth) Katsu Kaishu, a Japanese naval officer and statesman.
1918 - Moscow becomes the capital of Russia again.
1930 - Mahatma Gandhi leads a 200-mile march, known as the Salt March, to the sea in defiance of British opposition, to protest the British monopoly on salt.
1942 - MacArthur and a select group leave Corregidor in four PT boats (Battle of the Philippines).
1993 - ★Several bombs explode in Mumbai, India, killing about 300.
1993 - ★North Korea refuses to allow inspectors access to its nuclear sites.
1993 - ★The Blizzard of 1993 – Snow begins to fall across the eastern portion of the US.
2003 - Zoran Dindie, Prime Minister of Serbia, is assassinated in Belgrade.
2005 - Greek President Karolos Papoulias takes office.
2011 - ◆Kyushu Shinkansen section from Yatsushiro to Hakata opens.
2011 - ◆The US Pentagon quickly mobilizes “Operation Tomodachi”.

Japanese Traditional Calendar

March 12 ⇒Detail

April 4, 1868 - The Gakushuin Peers School is reopened.
April 24, 1907 - Penal Code is promulgated (Japan). (Japanese Wikipedia)
April 17, 1970 - The ill-fated Apollo 13 spacecraft returns to Earth safely.

Gregorian

March 13

2004 - ★The southern 127 km section of the Kyushu Shinkansen opens.
Train bombings in Madrid occurred two days before the opening, on March 11. Probably the Japanese government tried to boast of its superb railway system and to undermine the opening of the high-speed railway line around Kagoshima.

Japanese Traditional Calendar

March 13

April 5, 1868 - ◆Saigo Takamori and Katsu Kaishu meet in Edo.
They discuss the surrender of Edo Castle to the emperor's forces.
April 5, 1868 - ◆The Edict for Separation of Shinto and Buddhism is issued (Meiji Restoration).
※ The Meiji Restoration was totally a fake revolution. The surrender of the samurai government was a put-up job in order only to deceive the subject people. There was more to it than that. Saigo Takamori was a spy who was secretly employed by the Imperial clan and the Tokyo samurai government. Saigo was said to have been born and brought up in Kagoshima. But Saigo totally destroyed Buddhist temples and related treasuries in Kagoshima. Particularly a lot of metal was secretly sent to Tokyo and was used for building new battleships for the Meiji government.
April 10, 2006 – ▲Japan Legal Support Center is established.
April 10, 2006 – ▲A study group on protection of children is established.
External Experts Study Group on Protection of Children from Harmful Effects of Virtual Society, 2006 is established by the National Police Agency.

Gregorian

March 14 ⇒Detail

1879 - (birth) Albert Einstein, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.
1951 - ★For the second time, United Nations troops recapture Seoul (Korean War).
1964 - A jury in Dallas, Texas, finds Jack Ruby guilty of killing Lee Harvey Oswald.
1970 - Expo '70, a World's Fair, is held in Osaka, Japan.
1970 - Tsuruga Power Station Unit 1, Japan's first nuclear power plant, begins operations.
1985 - Brazilian President Tancredo Neves becomes severely ill on the eve of the inauguration.
2004 - Vladimir Putin is re-elected to the presidency for a second term.
2005 - ▲The People's Republic of China ratifies an anti-secession law.
2005 - ▲800,000 people gather for an opposition rally in Beirut.
2005 - ▲A Japanese tugboat is attacked by pirates in the Malacca Strait.
2008 - Demonstrations by Tibetan separatists turn violent.
2011 - ◆Fukushima I nuclear accidents. The No 3 reactor building at the plant explodes.
2011 - ◆It is announced that The Tokyo Sky Tree was undamaged in the earthquake.
2011 - ◆Tokyo Governor Shintaro Ishihara says he will seek a fourth term in April's election.

Japanese Traditional Calendar

March 14 ⇒Detail

April 21, 1701 - Forty-seven Ronin: At Edo Castle, Asano attacks and injures Kira.
April 6, 1830 - The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is organized.
April 9, 1865 - American Civil War: Robert E. Lee surrenders, effectively ending the war.
April 19, 1951 - ★General Douglas MacArthur retires from the military.
April 19, 1951 - ★Shigeki Tanaka, who survived the atomic blast, wins the Boston Marathon.
April 14, 1984 - (birth) Harumafuji Kohei, a Mongolian sumo wrestler.
April 11, 2006 - Ahmadinejad announces that Iran has successfully enriched uranium.

Gregorian

March 15 ⇒Detail

1257 - ◆The Great Palace of Gojo is damaged in fires.
1257 - ◆Mibu-dera is burnt to the ground.
1917 - ◆Tsar Nicholas II of Russia abdicates the Russian throne.
2008 - ◆Xi Jinping is elected Vice-President (the National People's Congress, China).

Japanese Traditional Calendar

March 15 ⇒Detail

April 21, 1731 - (death) Daniel Defoe, English writer, journalist, and pamphleteer.
April 14, 1995 - Shintaro Ishihara suddenly resigns from the Diet.
April 23, 2005 - The 2010 Winter Olympics logo is unveiled.
April 20, 2008 – ◆The Zenkoji Buddhist Temple is vandalised (Olympic torch relay).

Gregorian

March 16 ⇒Detail

2005 - Two accused in the trial for the bombing of Air India Flight 182 were found not guilty.

Japanese Traditional Calendar

March 16 ⇒Detail

April 29, 1953 - Yamada Memorial Marathon Race begins in Odate, Akita prefecture, Japan.
April 22, 1997 - The Japanese embassy hostage crisis ends in Lima, Peru.
May 6, 2012 - ◆François Hollande is elected President of France, defeating Nicolas Sarkozy.
May 6, 2012 - ◆A legislative election is held in Greece (the Hellenic Parliament).
May 6, 2012 - ◆A communique is adopted in the Fourth TICAD Ministerial Follow-up Meeting.

Gregorian

March 17

Japanese Traditional Calendar

March 17

April 16, 1889 - ★(birth) Charlie Chaplin, English actor and filmmaker. Probably Chaplin was Hitler's double.
Apri 25, 2005 - ◆(death) Takeshi Abe, hemophilia expert. He faces an appeals trial over his acquittal in a professional negligence case in the HIV-tainted blood scandal.
Apri 25, 2005 - ◆107 die in Amagasaki rail crash in Japan.

Gregorian

March 18 ⇒Detail

1886 - ◆The navy and army bureaus are created in the Japanese military government.

Japanese Traditional Calendar

March 18 ⇒Detail

April 29, 1945 – Adolf Hitler marries his long-time partner Eva Braun in a Berlin bunker.
April 26, 1986 - ◆The groundbreaking ceremony for the Akashi-Kaikyo Bridge is held.
April 26, 1986 - ◆The Chernobyl disaster.
May 8, 2012 - Dmitry Medvedev is appointed Prime Minister of Russia.

Gregorian

March 19

681 - ★The compilation of the Asuka Kiyomihara Code is commenced in Japan.
1474 - ★Venice passes the first-known written law to grant and protect patents.
1865 - ◆American Civil War: The Battle of Bentonville begins. By the end of the battle two days later, Confederate forces had retreated from Four Oaks, North Carolina.
It is the last major battle to occur between the armies of Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman and Gen. Joseph E. Johnston. The battle ends in three days. But the Confederate States lose the stomach to fight. The surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia by General Lee on April 9, 1865 marks the end of the Confederacy.

But President Abraham Lincoln is shot on April 14, 1865. The day is March 19 according to the Japanese calendar. The assassination is probably Japan's conspiracy for the purpose of retaliating US pressure on Japan's isolationism.
1885 - ★Louis Riel declares a Provisional Government in Saskatchewan, beginning the North-West Rebellion.
1949 - ★(birth) Hirofumi Hirano, a Japanese politician, Chief Cabinet Secretary. His birthday matches the name of Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama. Hato means a dove in Japanese.
1949 - ★Hato bus, a sightseeing bus service, begins in Tokyo. It provides convenient one-day trips to all of Tokyo's best tourist spots.
2008 - ★Stabbing rampage in Tsuchiura, Japan.

Japanese Traditional Calendar

March 19

April 13, 1743 - ★(birth) Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President of the United States.
April 14, 1865 - ◆President Abraham Lincoln is shot. He dies the next day.
May 9, 1947 - ★(birth) Yukiya Amano, Director General of the IAEA.

Gregorian

March 20 ⇒Detail

1181 - ☆(death) Taira no Kiyomori, a general of the late Heian period of Japan.
1184 - Battle of Ichi-no-Tani. The Taira clan is expeled from Kyoto.
1188 - Minamoto no Yoritomo orders Fujiwara no Yasuhira to capture Minamoto no Yoshitsune.
1602 - The Dutch East India Company is established.
1703 - ☆Almost all of the Forty-seven Ronin kill themselves.
1754 - The Horeki period river improvement works start.
1815 - After escaping from Elba, Napoleon enters Paris, beginning his "Hundred Days" rule.
1942 - General Douglas MacArthur makes a speech, "I came out of Bataan and I shall return" .
1943 - The Japanese navy issues an atrocious order, violating international laws.
1995 – ◆A sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway kills 12 and wounds 1,300 persons.
1995 – ◆The Resolution and Collection Corporation is established by the Bank of Japan.
1998 - Masaru Hayami becomes the governor of the Bank of Japan.
2003 - ★2003 invasion of Iraq (the United States and three other countries).
2003 - ★Toshihiko Fukui becomes the governor of the Bank of Japan.
2008 - ◆Masaaki Shirakawa becomes acting governor, the de facto governor, of the BOJ.
2008 - ◆Akasaka Sacas is opened.
2008 - ◆The house of the editor of this site is partly broken by a constructor's deliberate jolts.

Japanese Traditional Calendar

March 20 ⇒Detail

April 19, 1775 - The American Revolutionary War begins.
April 15, 1865 - (death) Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States.
April 19, 1995 - ◆Oklahoma City bombing (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, US).
April 19, 1995 - ◆Bad odors fell train riders in Yokohama, Japan.
April 19, 1995 - ◆The dollar hits the postwar low of 79.75 in the Tokyo foreign exchange market.

Gregorian

March 21 ⇒Detail

1854 - the first trial run of locomotive model trains in Japan.
1874 - ◆Japan holds its first athletic meet at a naval school in Tsukiji (Japanese).
1985 - The first AIDS case in Japan is reported.
1998 - ◆The Grand Opening Festivities of the Akashi-Kaikyo Bridge are held.

Japanese Traditional Calendar

March 21 ⇒Detail

April 21, 1612 - ★The interdiction against Christianity is issued in the territories of the Tokugawa shogunate. The interdiction spreads all over Japan the next year.
May 6, 1874 - ◆A Japanese expedition arrives in Taiwan.
April 20, 1889 – (birth) Adolf Hitler, German Nazi dictator.
April 14, 2001 - The Japanese Red Army declares its disbandment.
March 21, 2008 - ◆The Beijing Olympic torch relay is held in Nagano City, Japan.
April 26, 2008 - ◆A Russo-Japanese summit meeting is held on the outskirts of Moscow.
April 11, 2012 – ▲Kim Jong-un is elected First Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea.
April 11, 2012 – ▲A legislative election for the 19th National Assembly is held in South Korea.
April 11, 2012 – ▲A magnitude 8.2 earthquake hit Indonesia, off northern Sumatra.
April 11, 2012 – ▲Michoacan earthquake. A 7.0 magnitude earthquake hits Mexico.
April 11, 2012 – ▲The world premiere for The Avengers is held (Hollywood, California).

Gregorian

March 22

1185 - ★The naval Battle of Yashima takes place between the Minamoto clan and the Taira clan. The Minamoto clan defeats the Taira clan.
1804 - ★The name of the era is changed from Kyowa to Bunka in Japan. The era of Bunka is a memorable era for Japan. In Bunka 1 (in 1804), Napoleon Bonaparte crowns emperor of France.
1870 - ★The Tokyo metropolitan government authorizes the rickshaw business for the first time.
1896 - ★The Neo-baroque Bank of Japan building in Tokyo is completed.
1916 – ★The last Emperor of China, Yuan Shikai, abdicates the throne and the Republic of China is restored.
1945 – ★The Arab League is founded when a charter is adopted in Cairo, Egypt.
1985 - ★The AIDS Research Committee (Japan) reports the initial Japanese case of AIDS.
(June 29, 1405 in the Islamic calendar)
The AIDS patient is a male homosexual, an artist aged 36, living in U.S.A. He returned to Japan after 16 years' stay, and visited a hospital in Tokyo.

Japanese Traditional Calendar

March 22

April 22, 1870 – ★(birth) Vladimir Lenin, Russian revolutionary.
May 1, 1929 - ★The cannon firing ceremony is ended. It is replaced by time siren signal.
May 8, 1969 - ★(birth) Akebono Taro, American sumo wrestler, the 64th Yokozuna.

Gregorian

March 23

1956 - ◆Pakistan becomes the first Islamic republic in the world. (Republic Day in Pakistan)

Japanese Traditional Calendar

March 23

May 8, 1238 - ★The Great Buddha of Kamakura is started construction at Kamakura, Japan.
April 25, 1859 - ★The Suez Canal construction begins.
April 17, 1895 - ★The Treaty of Shimonoseki is signed between China and Japan.
This marks the end of the first Sino-Japanese War, and the defeated Qing Empire is forced to renounce its claims on Korea and to concede the southern portion of Fengtien province, Taiwan, and the Pescadores Islands to Japan.
May 3, 1956 - ◆The 1st edition of the World Judo Championships takes place at the Kuramae Kokugikan in Tokyo, Japan.
May 3, 1956 - ◆(birth) Akio Toyota, president and CEO of Toyota Motor Corporation.
April 28, 2008 - ▲The Olympics torch relay is held in Pyongyang (North Korea).
It is the first time that the Olympic torch has traveled to North Korea.
April 28, 2008 - ▲Zibo train collision (Zibo, Shandong province, China).

Gregorian

March 24

1185 - ★Minamoto no Yoshitsune's forces battle with the Taira, who were put to rout (On the beach of Yashima, an island off Shikoku).
1603 - ★(death) Queen Elizabeth I of England.
1603 - ★James VI of Scotland also becomes James I of England.
1603 - ★Tokugawa Ieyasu establishes the Tokugawa Shogunate in Edo, Japan.
Tokugawa Ieyasu is granted the title of shogun from Emperor Go-Yozei on this day. But it is obvious that the day was arranged with the historical events, the battle on the beach of Yashima and the Battle of Dan-no-ura.
1852 - ★Matthew Perry is appointed the Commander, U.S. East India Squadron to visit Japan in search of a Japanese trade treaty.

On November 24, 1852, Perry leaves Norfolk for Japan aboard the Mississippi.

Japanese Traditional Calendar

March 24

April 25, 1185 - ★Battle of Dan-no-ura. A major sea battle of the Genpei War occurs at Dan-no-ura, in the Shimonoseki Strait off the southern tip of Honshu. The Taira clan perishes.
May 15, 1754 - ★Taal Volcano erupts (Luzon island, the Philippines).
It is Taal Volcano's greatest recorded eruption. The eruption lasts to December 1.
April 24, 1908 - ★1908 Dixie tornado outbreak (US).
It is one of the 10 deadliest American tornadoes. 143 people were dead.

Gregorian

March 25 ⇒Detail

940 - (death) Taira no masakado, samurai in the Heian period of Japan.
1837 - Oshio Heihachiro stages an uprising against the Tokugawa shogunate.
2007 - ◆The 50th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome is celebrated in EU nations.
2007 - ◆2007 Noto earthquake.
2012 - ◆Leung Chun-ying is elected Hong Kong's new chief executive.

Japanese Traditional Calendar

March 25 ⇒Detail

April 20, 1808 – ◆(birth) Napoleon III of France, Emperor of the French.
May 14, 1833 - (birth) J. Donald Cameron, United States Secretary of War.
April 15, 2012 - ◆100th anniversary of the sinking of the RMS Titanic.
April 15, 2012 - ◆100th anniversary of the birth of Kim Il-sung, President of North Korea.

Gregorian

March 26 ⇒Detail

1944 - The SS Tjisalak is torpedoed and sunk by the Japanese submarine I-8.
1971 - ◆East Pakistan declares its independence from Pakistan.
2010 - ◆The Child Allowance Law is enacted.
2010 - ◆(death) Kwon Hyi-ro.
2010 - ◆Toshikazu Sugaya is acquitted in his retrial at the Utsunomiya District Court.
2010 - ◆The ROKS Cheonan, a South Korean Navy ship sinks off the country's west coast.

Japanese Traditional Calendar

March 26 ⇒Detail

April 24, 1930 - (birth) Jose Sarney, President of Brazil.
May 7, 1945 – Unconditional surrender terms are signed (World War II).
April 21, 1960 - ◆Brasilia replaces Rio de Janeiro as the Brazilian capital.
April 21, 1971 - ◆(death) Francois Duvalier, President of Haiti, dictator.
April 21, 1971 - ◆Jean-Claude Duvalier becomes president of Haiti.
April 21, 1971 - ◆Siaka Stevens is elected the first president of Sierra Leone.

Gregorian

March 27

Japanese Traditional Calendar

March 27

May 8, 1945 - ★Victory in Europe Day (public holiday in France).
Combat ends in Europe in the World War II. German forces surrender the day before.
May 18, 1993 - ★Riots caused by the approval of the Maastricht Treaty in the referendum (Denmark).
Riots are caused by the approval of the four Danish exceptions in the Maastricht Treaty referendum in Norrebro, Copenhagen. Police open fire against civilians for the first time since World War II and injure 11 demonstrators. In total 113 bullets are fired.
April 23, 1998 - ★(death) James Earl Ray, assassin who killed Martin Luther King, Jr.
May 2, 2008 - ★A high-school girl is murdered in Toyota city, Aichi prefecture (unsolved case).

Gregorian

March 28

1969 – ★(death) Dwight D. Eisenhower, American general and President of the United States.
2005 - ★An 8.7 magnitude earthquake is recorded off the west coast of northern Sumatra.
1300 people are reportedly killed. The earthquake occurs at 23:09 pm local time (01:09 am Japan time on March 29).

Japanese Traditional Calendar

March 28

May 9, 1869 - ☆The Japanese capital is moved from Kyoto to Tokyo.
April 28, 1908 - ★The first Japanese emigrants on board the Kasato Maru left Kobe bound for Brazil. They arrived in Santos on 18 June.
May 9, 1927 - ☆Canberra replaces Melbourne as the capital of Australia.
The relocation date was arranged in accordance with the relocation of the Japanese capital. The then prime minister was Stanley Bruce. There is a strong possibility that he was Japanese. Walter Burley Griffin, who is known for designing Canberra, is probably Japanese, too. It is a typical Japanese-style political backhanded compliment.
May 9, 1927 - ☆Junnosuke Inoue becomes governor of the Bank of japan.
May 9, 1927 - ☆Japan Polydor Records is founded.
May 9, 1945 - ☆The funeral of Hitler takes place at the German embassy in Tokyo.
April 29, 1946 - ★The Tokyo War Crimes Trial first convenes.

Gregorian

March 29 ⇒Detail

2005 - ◆An 8.7 magnitude earthquake is recorded off the west coast of northern Sumatra.
2005 - ◆Junya Hattori is sentenced to death.
2008 - ◆TV Drama "Chiritotechin" ends.
2008 - ◆Thirty-five countries and over 370 cities join Earth Hour for the first time.

Japanese Traditional Calendar

March 29 ⇒Detail

Islamic Calendar

March 29 ⇒Detail

July 6, 2005 (March 29, 5765 in the Hebrew calendar)◆the 2012 Summer Olympics to London.
July 6, 2005 (March 29, 5765 in the Hebrew calendar)◆The 31st G8 summit is held (UK).
July 6, 2005 (March 29, 5765 in the Hebrew calendar)◆Software patent is rejected.

Gregorian

March 30

1222 - ★(birth) Nichiren Daishonin, Japanese founder of Nichiren Buddhism.
1940 - ★Japan declares Nanjing capital of a new Chinese puppet government, nominally controlled by Wang Ching-wei (Sino-Japanese War).
1995 - ★Takaji Kunimatsu, chief of the National Police Agency, is shot by an unidentified gunman and seriously wounded.

Japanese Traditional Calendar

March 30

April 22, 1925 - ★The Peace Preservation Law is promulgated (Japan).

Gregorian

March 31

1970 - ◆Hideki Yukawa retires from the Kyoto University as a Professor Emeritus.
Yukawa is a Japanese physicist and a Nobel Prize laureate. He has been the first director of the Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics. The research institute was founded in the Kyoto University and is located near the Yodo River (the Kamo River in Kyoto). Yukawa retires as the director on this day.
1970 - ◆Japan Airlines Flight 351 is hijacked by Japanese Red Army members.
Nine terrorists from the Japanese Red Army hijack the flight at Tokyo International Airport, wielding samurai swords and carrying a bomb.

※ Strangely enough, the hijacking incident is named "Yodogo Hijacking" in Japan. And strangely again, the Boeing 727-89 was nicknamed "Yodogo". Yodo indicates the Yodo River, which runs from Lake Biwa through Kyoto to Osaka Bay. And "Yodogo" means the name of Yodo in Japanese.

It is highly probable that the hijacking was a government's fabrication, just celebrating the great achievement by Hideki Yukawa, a Nobel Prize laureate. In fact, he retires on this day. And the Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, of which Yukawa has been the director, is located near the Yodo River.

In addition, Yukawa is probably a member of the high-ranking imperial clan. He was born on the 570th anniversary of the beginning of the Southern Court and the 10th anniversary of the death of Alfred Nobel. Yukawa died on the 50th anniversary of the death of Thomas Edison.
1970 - ◆Yawata Steel and Fuji Steel merge to form Nippon Steel Corporation.
1970 - ◆Explorer 1 re-enters the Earth's atmosphere after 12 years in orbit.

Japanese Traditional Calendar

March 31

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