Yokohama
designated city in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
9 dated entries naming Yokohama, drawn from 9 separate years between 1885 CE and 1965 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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19th century
- 1885July – Japan Brewery, predecessor of Kirin Holdings, is founded in Yokohama, Japan.source
- 1886December 17 – English adventurer Thomas Stevens concludes the first circumnavigation by bicycle in Yokohama, having set out on his penny-farthing from San Francisco in 1884.source
- 1899February 27 – Japanese immigration to South America, primarily Peru, begins as the ship Sakura Maru departs from Yokohama with 790 men employed by the Morioka-shokai Sugar Company. The group arrives in Callao on April 3.source
20th century
- 1923September 1 – The Great Kantō earthquake devastates Tokyo and Yokohama, killing more than 100,000 people.source
- 1945September 5 – Iva Toguri D'Aquino, a Japanese American suspected of being wartime radio propagandist "Tokyo Rose", is arrested in Yokohama.source
- 1951April 24 – Sakuragichō train fire: in Yokohama, Japan, a fire on a train kills more than 100.source
- 1955February 16 – Nearly 100 die in a fire at a home for the elderly in Yokohama, Japan.source
- 1963Tsurumi rail accident: A triple train disaster in Yokohama kills 161.source
- 1965September 27 – The largest tanker ship at this time, Tokyo Maru, is launched in Yokohama, Japan.source
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