{"slug": "nagasaki", "label": "Nagasaki", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagasaki", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q38234", "qid": "Q38234", "description": "core city in Kyushu, Japan", "entries": 17, "years": 15, "span": [1578, 1982], "span_label": ["1578 CE", "1982 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 5}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 3}, {"title": "Disasters & Accidents", "count": 3}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 2}, {"title": "Technology & Infrastructure", "count": 2}, {"title": "Health & Medicine", "count": 1}, {"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "toyotomi-hideyoshi", "label": "Toyotomi Hideyoshi", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "kyoto", "label": "Kyoto", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "japan", "label": "Japan", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "september", "label": "September", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "netherlands", "label": "Netherlands", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "soviet-union", "label": "Soviet Union", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "nanjing", "label": "Nanjing", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "jesuit", "label": "Jesuit", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "portuguese-empire", "label": "Portuguese Empire", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "tokugawa-shogunate", "label": "Tokugawa shogunate", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1578, "year_label": "1578 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Portuguese assist Lord Ōmura Sumitada, the first Christian Japanese daimyo, in repulsing an assault on Nagasaki by the Ryūzōji clan.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1356931160#Date_unknown", "title": "1578", "revid": 1356931160, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1587, "year_label": "1587 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "January 14", "text": "January 14 – In Japan, Chancellor of the Realm Toyotomi Hideyoshi ends Portugal's control of the port of Nagasaki after six years. Omura Sumitada had leased the fishing village to Portuguese Jesuits on August 15, 1580.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362478812#January–March", "title": "1587", "revid": 1362478812, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1596, "year_label": "1596 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "December 8", "text": "December 8 – In Japan, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Chancellor of the Realm, orders the arrest of the 26 Roman Catholic Christians who had the misfortune of being shipwrecked in Kyoto on October 19; each of the ones arrested has a part of the left ear cut off, then sent on a forced march to Nagasaki on January 4, then has them killed on February 5.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369722581#October–December", "title": "1596", "revid": 1369722581, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1597, "year_label": "1597 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "February 5", "text": "February 5 – In Japan, 26 European Catholic Christians are executed in Nagasaki by crucifixion. They had the misfortune of being shipwrecked on the Japanese coast on October 19, 1596.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362801855#January–March", "title": "1597", "revid": 1362801855, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1597, "year_label": "1597 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "January 4", "text": "January 4 – Japan's Chancellor of the Realm, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, sends 26 European Christians, arrested on December 8, 1596, on a forced march from Kyoto to Nagasaki.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362801855#January–March", "title": "1597", "revid": 1362801855, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1616, "year_label": "1616 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Anti-Christian persecutions break out in Nanjing, China, and Nagasaki, Japan. The Jesuit-lead Christian community in Japan at this time is over 3,000,000 strong.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366307823#Date_unknown", "title": "1616", "revid": 1366307823, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1616, "year_label": "1616 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "August 8", "text": "August 8 – The Tokugawa shogunate (Bakufu) in Japan forbids foreigners other than Chinese from traveling freely, or trading outside of the ports of Nagasaki and Hirado.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366307823#July–August", "title": "1616", "revid": 1366307823, "section": "Events › July–August"}}, {"year": 1622, "year_label": "1622 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "September 10", "text": "September 10 – 55 Christians are executed in Nagasaki during the Great Genna Martyrdom.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366857889#July–September", "title": "1622", "revid": 1366857889, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1632, "year_label": "1632 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "September 3", "text": "September 3 – The last executions of Christians in Japan take place as four Spanish missionaries (including Augustinin friar Bartholomew Gutierrez) and two Japanese converts are burned alive in Nagasaki. They are beatified in 1867 as the last of the 205 Martyrs of Japan.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1358528035#July–September", "title": "1632", "revid": 1358528035, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1635, "year_label": "1635 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": null, "text": "In Edo period Japan, the Sakoku Edict of 1635 enforces isolationism. Japanese are forbidden to travel abroad and unauthorised Europeans forbidden to enter under penalty of death. Christianity (Catholicism) is absolutely prohibited. Foreign merchants – Chinese and those of the Dutch East India Company – are restricted to enclaves in Nagasaki and access by the Portuguese is completely forbidden: an imperial memorandum decrees, \"Hereafter entry by the Portuguese galeota is forbidden. If they insist on coming, the ships must be destroyed and anyone aboard those ships must be beheaded.\"", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360049087#Date_unknown", "title": "1635", "revid": 1360049087, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1639, "year_label": "1639 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Dejima, an island trading post off Nagasaki, becomes the only official port of trade allowed for Europeans, with the multi-national United East Indies Company (Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie) as the only European party officially allowed. Trading parties from China, India and other places are still officially allowed, though the VOC will become the usual broker for them.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360051116#Date_unknown", "title": "1639", "revid": 1360051116, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1640, "year_label": "1640 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "August 9", "text": "August 9 – Forty-one Spanish delegates to Japan at Nagasaki are beheaded.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361323300#July–September", "title": "1640", "revid": 1361323300, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1641, "year_label": "1641 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "The Dutch found a trading colony on Dejima, near Nagasaki, Japan.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1343658448#Date_unknown", "title": "1641", "revid": 1343658448, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1859, "year_label": "1859 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "September", "text": "September – British merchant Thomas Blake Glover begins business in Nagasaki, Japan.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371179353#July–September", "title": "1859", "revid": 1371179353, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1945, "year_label": "1945 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "August", "text": "Atomic bombing of Nagasaki: United States B-29 Bockscar drops a plutonium-239 atomic bomb, codenamed \"Fat Man\", on the Japanese city of Nagasaki at 11:02 a.m. local time, resulting in between 39,000 and 80,000 deaths.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371513862#August", "title": "1945", "revid": 1371513862, "section": "Events › August"}}, {"year": 1949, "year_label": "1949 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": "August 29", "text": "August 29 – The Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb, RDS-1 (\"Joe 1\"). Its design imitates the American plutonium bomb that was dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, in 1945.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370167995#August", "title": "1949", "revid": 1370167995, "section": "Events › August"}}, {"year": 1982, "year_label": "1982 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": "July 23", "text": "July 23 – Torrential rain and mudslides in Nagasaki, Japan, destroy bridges and kill 299.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373279023#July", "title": "1982", "revid": 1373279023, "section": "Events › July"}}]}