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Osaka

designated city in Osaka Prefecture, Japan

39 dated entries naming Osaka, drawn from 32 separate years between 578 CE and 2025 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.

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6th century

  • 578Kongō Gumi, the world's oldest construction company (578–2006), is founded in Osaka (Japan).source
  • 593The Shitennō-ji monastery is founded at Osaka (Japan) by Shōtoku.source

7th century

  • 645Kōtoku creates a new city at Naniwa, and moves the capital from Yamato Province. The capital has a sea port, establishing foreign trade and diplomatic relations.source
  • 646A Great Reform edict changes Japan's political order. It will lead to the establishment of a centralized government with Kōtoku ruling from his palace, Naniwa Nagara-Toyosaki Palace, in Osaka.source
  • 653Prince Tenji of Japan changes his residence to Asuka (Nara Prefecture), with other imperial family members and ministers. Only Emperor Kōtoku stays in the Naniwa Palace (approximate date).source

16th century

  • 1549July 18 – (Tenbun 18, 24th day of the 7th month) In the Battle of Eguchi, fought in Japan's Settsu Province near Osaka, General Miyoshi Nagayoshi defies the Governor, Hosokawa Harumoto, to attack the Eguchi Castle of Nagayoshi's cousin, Miyoshi Masanaga. After a 12-day battle, Miyoshi Masanaga is killed along with several of Hosokawa's other generals. Governor Hosokawa, fearing a reprisal, flees and eventually loses his authority over Settsu Province.source
  • 1570September 25 (26th day of 8th month of Genki 1) – The 10-year-long Ishiyama Hongan-ji War begins in Japan as Oda Nobunaga stages simultaneous attacks on two fortresses (Ishiyama Hongan-ji and Nagashima) of the Ikkō-ikki faction near Osaka.source
  • 1584April 28 – (Tenshō 12, 18th day of the 3rd month) In Japan, the Battle of Komaki begins as fight between Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Tokugawa Ieyasu when Ieyasu, commander of 100,000 men, begins the occupation of the Komakiyama Castle, prompting Hideyoshi to advance from Osaka with 30,000 troops.source

17th century

  • 1615Konoike Shinroku opens an office in Osaka, and begins shipping tax-rice from western Japan to Osaka.source
  • 1616February – English merchants of the East India Company complain that the great troubles and wars in Japan since their arrival have put them to much pains and charges. Two great cities, Osaka and Sakaii, have been burned to the ground, each one almost as big as London, and not one house left standing, and it is reported above 300,000 men have lost their lives, “yet the old Emperor Ogusho Same hath prevailed and Fidaia Same either been slain or fled secretly away, that no news is to be heard of him.” Jesuits, priests, and friars are banished by the emperor and their churches and monasteries pulled down; they put the fault on the arrival of the English; it is said if Fidaia Same had prevailed against the emperor, he promised them entrance again, when without doubt all the English would have been driven out of Japan.source
  • 1656Konoike Zen'amon (son of Konoike Shinroku) founds a baking and money-changing business in Osaka, Japan.source
  • 1684Japanese poet Ihara Saikaku composes 23,500 verses in 24 hours at the Sumiyoshi-taisha (shrine) at Osaka; the scribes cannot keep pace with his dictation and just count the verses.source

18th century

  • 1705The Shogunate confiscates the property of a merchant in Osaka "for conduct unbecoming a member of the commercial class". The government seizes 50 pairs of gold screens, 360 carpets, several mansions, 48 granaries and warehouses scattered around the country, and hundreds of thousands of gold pieces.source
  • 1781June 12 – Ohmiya (近江屋), as predecessor for Takeda, a major worldwide pharmaceutical brand, is founded in Doshomachi (道修町), Osaka, Japan.source

19th century

  • 1830Sogo, a Japanese department store brand founded in Osaka, Japan, as predecessor part of Seven & I Retail Group.source
  • 1862Iwai Fumisuke Shoten (岩井文助商店), predecessor of Japanese conglomerate Sojitz, is founded in Osaka.source
  • 1890Japanese tractor and iron pipe brand, Kubota founded in Osaka, Japan.source
  • 1890February unknown date – Kubota founded in Nishi-ku, Osaka.source
  • 1899February 1 – The Suntory whisky distiller and worldwide alcoholic and soft drink brand of Japan is established by Shinjiro Torii in Osaka as a store selling imported wines.source
  • 1899February 1 – Telephone service begins between Tokyo and Osaka.source

20th century

  • 1902May 1 – Daiwa Securities founded, as predecessor name was Fujimoto Bill Broker Banking in Kitaiama, Osaka.source
  • 1916January 22 – Japan launches its first domestically manufactured blimp. The blimp left Tokorozawa at 1:30 p.m. and, after landing and refueling at Toyohashi, landed in Osaka at 5:10 p.m. the next day.source
  • 1923May 21–25 – 1923 Far Eastern Games held in Osaka.source
  • 1925March – A nation's first license radio station, NHK Radio One, an official broadcasting service start in Tokyo, following start on June 1 in Osaka and July 15 in Nagoya.source
  • 1934September 21 – The Muroto typhoon in Honshū, Japan kills 3,036 people, and destroys the temple, schools, and other buildings in Osaka.source
  • 1934October 2 – A typhoon in Osaka and Kyoto, Japan, kills 1,660, injures 5,400, and destroys the rice harvest.source
  • 1935December 10 – Hanshin Tigers, a well known professional baseball club of Japan, is founded in Osaka.source
  • 1939March 1 – An Imperial Japanese Army ammunition dump explosion on the outskirts of Osaka kills 94.source
  • 1940January 29 – According to Japanese government official confirmed report, a three-passenger locomotive commuter train derail and caught fire nearby Ajikawaguchi Station, Osaka, resulting to 189 person (181 were instantly, 8 were hospital) were death and 69 persons injures.source
  • 1940January 29 – Three gasoline-powered trains carrying factory workers crash and explode while approaching Ajikawaguchi Station, Yumesaki Line (Nishinari Line), Osaka, Japan, killing at least 181 people and injuring at least 92.source
  • 1948January 27 – According to Japan Coast Guard official confirmed report, a passenger ship Joou Maru toward from Osaka to Tadotsu, Kagawa Prefecture route, capsized by touch on landmine off north of Shōdo Island, Seto Inland Sea, 154 persons were official rescue confirmed, 199 passenger and crew were perished.source
  • 1964April 17 – Orient Lease, as predecessor of Orix Group founded in Osaka.source
  • 1964October 1 – The Shinkansen high-speed rail system, the world's first such system, is inaugurated in Japan, for the first sector between Tokyo and Osaka.source
  • 1970March 15 – September 13 – Expo '70 in Osaka.source
  • 1970April 8 – A huge gas explosion at a subway construction site in Osaka, Japan, kills 79 and injures over 400.source
  • 1972May 13 – A fire in a nightclub atop the Sennichi department store in Osaka, Japan, kills 115.source
  • 1972May 13 - A fire at the Sennichi Department Store in Osaka kills 118, injures 78.source
  • 1994September 4 – Kansai International Airport in Osaka, Japan opens. All international services are transferred from Itami to Kansai.source

21st century

  • 2025April 13 – October 13 – Expo 2025 is held in Osaka, Japan.source

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