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Yokohama

designated city in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan

18 dated entries naming Yokohama, drawn from 16 separate years between 1865 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

  • 186516 December – Leopold I of Belgium buried in Laken, despite his wish to be buried in Windsor; Auguste t'Kint arrives in Yokohama as the first Belgian diplomat in Japan.source
  • 1871January 28 - Japan's first Japanese-language daily newspaper, the Yokohama Mainichi Shinbun, is printed in Yokohama. (Traditional Japanese Date: Eighth Day of the Twelfth Month, Meiji 3)source
  • 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
  • 188717 December – 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
  • 1898March 15 – After two months of production, Ang Kalayaan gets published, bearing a false masthead stating that the printing was done in Yokohama when it was in fact done in Lavezares Street, Binondo, Manila. Marcelo H. del Pilar was stated as the editor, but it was Emilio Jacinto who made the final changes before printing, writing under a penname. Dimas-Ilaw, Aguedo del Rosario, and Apolinario de la Cruz subsidised types free of charge but the publisher, Pio Valenzuela, had to secure more, paying a peso for each type sold by four workforces of the Diario de Manila who stole them from the paper's production press.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
  • 1899March 1 – Sankyo Pharmaceutical established in Yokohama, as predecessor of Daiichi Sankyo.source

20th century

  • 1910November – A confectionery brand Fujiya founded in Yokohama.source
  • 1923September 1 – The Great Kantō earthquake devastates Tokyo and Yokohama, killing more than 100,000 people.source
  • 1923September 1 – The Great Kantō earthquake devastates Tokyo and Yokohama, killing an estimated 142,807 people, but according to a Japanese construction research center report in 2005, 105,000 are confirmed dead. Varied accounts indicate the duration of the earthquake was between four and ten minutes.source
  • 1931A time recorder and robot brand, Amano was founded in Yokohama, as predecessor name of Amano Manufacturing.source
  • 1942April 18 – WWII: Doolittle Raid – Lieutenant Colonel Jimmy Doolittle leads a bombing mission against Japan, along with 79 other airmen of the U.S. Air Force, flying 16 North American B-25 Mitchell land-based bombers. They take off from the USS Hornet in the Pacific Ocean, some 700 miles (1,126 km) east of Tokyo. Thirteen of the B-25 bombers fly over Tokyo and drop their bombs on oil storage facilities, factories and military targets. The other three B-25s drop their bombs over Yokohama, Nagoya and Kobe. All but one of the B-25s run out of fuel before reaching friendly forces in western China and are forced to land in Japanese-occupied China. With the support of Chinese farmers, 71 airmen reach free China. Eight airmen are captured by the Japanese, who execute four of them in retaliation for the raid.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
  • 1963November 9 – Tsurumi 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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