Okinawa Prefecture

prefecture of Japan

9 dated entries naming Okinawa Prefecture, drawn from 9 separate years between 1398 CE and 2024 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

Also written as Okinawa prefecture in the source articles; Wikipedia redirects those to the same subject, so their entries are on this page.

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14th century

1398Bunei succeeds his father, Satto, as King of Chūzan (modern-day central Okinawa, Japan).source
1400Hananchi succeeds Min as King of Hokuzan, in modern-day north Okinawa, Japan.source

15th century

1403probable – Ououso becomes King of Nanzan, in present-day south Okinawa, Japan.source

19th century

1879March 11 – The Ryukyu Domain is incorporated into the Okinawa Prefecture of Japan and the last ruler, Shō Tai, exiled to Tokyo.source

20th century

1944October 10 – WWII: 10/10 Air Raid: Allied forces inflict significant losses upon Imperial Japanese Navy ships moored in Naha Harbor, destroying much of the city of Naha, Okinawa as well.source
1945April 18 – American war correspondent Ernie Pyle is killed by Japanese machine gun fire on the island of Ie Shima off Okinawa.source
1969November 21 – U.S. President Richard Nixon and Japanese Premier Eisaku Satō agree in Washington, D.C. to the return of Okinawa to Japanese control in 1972. Under the terms of the agreement, the U.S. retains rights to military bases on the island, but they must be nuclear-free.source
1975July 20 – opening of Expo '75 in Okinawa.source

21st century

2024April 3 – A powerful earthquake with a magnitude of 7.4 strikes off the eastern coast of Taiwan, with small tsunamis reaching heights of 20 – 30 cm hitting Okinawa Prefecture, Japan.source