1606 --- Christianity banned (Fabian Fucan 1620, Shimbara Martydom 1638)
1742 --- Rites Controversy (ancestor worship forbidden)
1839 --- Opium War (treaty 1842)
1851 --- Taiping Rebellion (suppressed 1864)
1853 --- Admiral Perry arrives in Japan
1857 --- Second Opium War (Beijing 1860). Self Strengthening starts
1868 --- Meiji Restoration (Charter Oath) [Saigo Takamori 1877]
1889 --- Meiji Constitution (Tariff, Extraterritoriality 1895)
1894 --- Sino-Japanese War - Triple Intervention 1895
1898 --- 100 Days Reform fails
1900 --- Boxer Rebellion
1905 --- Russo-Japanese War
1910 --- Korea annexed
1915 --- 21 demands
1919 --- Versailles Protests in Japan --- May 4th Movement in China
1922 --- Washington Conference (5-5-3)
1923 --- Tokyo Earthquake
1924 --- US Immigration Act --- Nationalist Communist Alliance (to 1927)
1927 --- GMD/CCP split (Long March 1934)
1929 --- The Great Depression
1931 --- Manchurian "Incident"
1933 --- Leaves League of Nations
1936 --- February 26th Uprising. GMD/CCP United Front
1937 --- Sino-Japanese War [Munich 1938]
1940 --- Tripartite Pact, North Vietnam (iron and steel embargo)
1941 --- South Vietnam (oil embargo)