Timeline of Yokohama

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Yokohama, Japan.

Prior to 20th century

• 1859
  • July: Port of Yokohama opens.^[1]
  • Noge Bridge constructed.^[1]
• 1860 - Orrin Freeman's photography studio begins operating.^[2]
• 1861 - Japan Herald English-language newspaper in publication.^[3]
• 1862 - September 14: Namamugi Incident.^[4]
• 1866 - 26 November: Fire.^[5]
• 1867 - Japan Gazette English-language newspaper begins publication.^[3]
• 1868
  • Yoshida Bashi (bridge) built.^[1]
  • Yokohama Military Hospital and Yokohama Cricket Club founded.
  • First barber's pole in Japan installed.^[6]
• 1869
  • Tokyo-Yokohama telegraph begins operating.^[7]
  • Maruzen publisher in business.^[4]
• 1871 - Yokohama Mainichi Shinbun (newspaper) begins publication.
• 1872
  • May: Sinagawa-Yokohama railway begins operating;^[4][8] Yokohama Station built.
  • Yokohama Central Hospital established.^[9]
• 1873 - Suzuki Shin'ichi I's photography studio begins operating.^[2]
• 1874 - Kuboyama Cemetery established.^[1]
• 1875 - Far East English-language newspaper begins publication.^[2]
• 1876 - Kanagawa Normal School founded.
• 1880 - Yokohama Specie Bank^[10][11] and Yokohama Chamber of Commerce^[12] established.
• 1882 - Yokohama School of Commerce established.^[9]
• 1886 - Cholera outbreak.^[1]
• 1888 - January 31: Fire in Noge-cho.^[1]
• 1889 - Yokohama incorporated as a city; municipal election held.^[1]
• 1890
  • Tokyo-Yokohama telephone begins operating.^[7]
  • Kanagawa Shimbun (newspaper) begins publication.^[12]
  • Population: 127,987.^[13]
• 1894 - 20 June: Earthquake/fire.^[14]
• 1897 - 9 September: Typhoon.^[14]
• 1898 - Population: 193,762.^[13]

20th century

• 1902 - 29 September: Typhoon.^[14]
• 1906 - Golf course built.^[15]
• 1909 - Population: 394,303.^[16]
• 1917 - Yokohama Port Opening Memorial Hall built.
• 1918 - Population: 447,423.^[13]
• 1920
  • Yokohama Institute of Technology and Kanagawa Youth Normal School founded.
  • Population: 579,310.^[13]
• 1923
  • September 1: 1923 Great Kantō earthquake.^[17]
  • Yokohama College of Economics founded.
• 1924 - Yokohama International School founded.
• 1926 - Yokohama No. 2 Joint Government Office Building constructed.
• 1928
  • Yokohama City College of Commerce founded.
  • Kanagawa Prefectural Office built.
• 1930
  • Yamashita Park opens.
  • Population: 704,236.^[13]
• 1934 - Nissan Motor Co. factory begins operating.
• 1938 - Yokohama Customs building constructed.
• 1940 - Population: 968,091.^[13]
• 1942 - Kanagawa Shimbun (newspaper) in publication.
• 1944 - Yokohama Municipal Medical College founded.^[9]
• 1945
  • Bombing of Yokohama during World War II.
  • Population: 624,994.^[13]
• 1949 - Yokohama City University^[9] and Yokohama National University active.
• 1950 - Population: 951,189.^[13]
• 1951
  • April 24: Sakuragichō train fire.
  • Nogeyama Zoological Gardens founded.^[18]
• 1952 - Nagahama Hall (concert hall) built.
• 1956 - Yokohama designated a government ordinance city.^[19]
• 1957 - Sister city relationship established with San Diego, USA.^[20]
• 1960 - Population: 1,375,710.
• 1961 - Yokohama Marine Tower erected.
• 1963
  • November 9: Tsurumi rail accident.^[17]
  • Ichio Asukata becomes mayor.
• 1970 - Population: 2,238,264.
• 1972
  • Yokohama Municipal Subway begins operating.
  • Nissan Motors football club formed.
• 1978
  • Yokohama Stadium opens.
  • Michikazu Saigō becomes mayor.
• 1979 - Yokohama Municipal Children's Botanical Garden established.^[21]
• 1980 - Yokohama Film Festival begins.
• 1981
  • Yokohama Archives of History established.^[22]
  • Yokohama Jazz Festival begins.
• 1986 - Shinasobaya ramen eatery in business.^[23]
• 1989 - Yokohama Bay Bridge and Cosmo Clock 21 (ferris wheel) open.
• 1990
  • Hidenobu Takahide becomes mayor.
  • Population: 3,220,331.
• 1992 - Yokohama Bay Stars baseball team active.^[24]
• 1993 - Yokohama Flügels football team active.
• 1994
  • Tsurumi Tsubasa Bridge built.
  • Shin-Yokohama Raumen Museum opens.^[25]
• 1999 - Yokohama F. Marinos football team formed.

21st century

• 2002 - Hiroshi Nakada becomes mayor.
• 2009 - Fumiko Hayashi elected mayor.^[26]
• 2010 - Population: 3,688,773.^[27]

See also

• Yokohama history
• Timeline of Yokohama (in Japanese)
• List of mayors of Yokohama

References

1. City Office 1920.
2. "Chronology". History of Japanese Photography. USA: Museum of Fine Arts Houston. 2003. ISBN 978-0-300-09925-6.
3. Joseph Rogala (2001). Collector's Guide to Books on Japan in English. Japan Library. ISBN 978-1-136-63923-4.
4. Kenneth Henshall (2014). Historical Dictionary of Japan to 1945. USA: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-7872-3.
5. Overall 1870.
6. Brian Moeran (1996). "Chronology of Japanese Advertising and Media from 1862 to 1991". A Japanese Advertising Agency: An Anthropology of Media and Markets. University of Hawaii Press. ISBN 978-1-136-79533-6.
7. "Timeline of Modern Japan (1868-1945)". About Japan: A Teacher’s Resource. New York: Japan Society.
8. André Sorensen (2002). The Making of Urban Japan: Cities and Planning from Edo to the Twenty First Century. Japanese Studies Series. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-134-73657-7.
9. "About YCU: Chronological table". Yokohama City University. Retrieved July 2015. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
10. Glyn Davies; Roy Davies (2002). "Comparative Chronology of Money" – via University of Exeter.
11. Norio Tamaki (1995). "Genealogy of leading Japanese banks, 1859-1959". Japanese Banking: A History, 1859-1959. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-02233-0.
12. "Japan". Europa World Year Book. Europa Publications. 2004. ISBN 978-1-85743-254-1.
13. Ayanori Okasaki (1957). "Growth of Urban Population in Japan". Genus. 13. JSTOR 29787368.
14. Benjamin Vincent (1910), "Japan", Haydn's Dictionary of Dates (25th ed.), London: Ward, Lock & Co. – via Hathi Trust
15. Allen Guttmann; Lee Austin Thompson (2001). Japanese Sports: A History. University of Hawaii Press. ISBN 978-0-8248-2464-8.
16. Kuniko Fujita and Richard Child Hill, ed. (1993). Japanese Cities. USA: Temple University Press. ISBN 978-1-4399-0092-5.
17. Bruce Wetterau (1990), New York Public Library Book of Chronologies, New York: Prentice Hall, OL 1885709M
18. Vernon N. Kisling, ed. (2000). "Zoological Gardens of Japan (chronological list)". Zoo and Aquarium History. USA: CRC Press. ISBN 978-1-4200-3924-5.
19. Philip Shapira; et al., eds. (1994). Planning for Cities and Regions in Japan. Liverpool University Press. ISBN 978-0-85323-248-3.
20. "Sister Cities". USA: City of San Diego. Retrieved December 2015. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
21. "Garden Search: Japan". London: Botanic Gardens Conservation International. Retrieved July 2015. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
22. "Institutions in Japan: Browse by Region (Kanto)". Research Access in Japanese Museums, Libraries, and Archives Resources. North American Coordinating Council on Japanese Library Resources. Retrieved July 2015. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
23. "Timeline of Ramen Development", Lucky Peach, January 2015
24. Richard Worth (2013). Baseball Team Names: A Worldwide Dictionary, 1869-2011. USA: McFarland & Company. ISBN 978-0-7864-9124-7.
25. Eric C. Rath and Stephanie Assmann, ed. (2010). Japanese Foodways, Past and Present. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0-252-07752-4.
26. "Japanese Mayors". City Mayors.com. London: City Mayors Foundation. Retrieved July 2015. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
27. "Population of Capital Cities and Cities of 100,000 or More Inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 2013. United Nations Statistics Division.

This article incorporates information from the Japanese Wikipedia and German Wikipedia.

Bibliography

Published in the 19th century

• William Henry Overall, ed. (1870). "Yokohama". Dictionary of Chronology. London: William Tegg.
• John R. Black (1883), Young Japan: Yokohama and Yedo, New York: Baker, Pratt & Co. (describes 1858-1879 from expat perspective)
• Boston Public Library (1895). "Japan: Yokohama". List of Works on Corea, Japan, and China. USA.

Published in the 20th century

• "Yokohama". Guide Book for Tourists in Japan. Yokohama: Obun Printing Co. 1903.
• Matsutaro Nakada (ed.). City of Yokohama, Past and Present. Yokohama Publishing.
• "Yokohama", Encyclopaedia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424
• "Yokohama (Musashi)", Handbook for Travellers in Japan (9th ed.), London: J. Murray, 1913
• T. Philip Terry (1914), "Yokohama and its Environs", Terry's Japanese Empire, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, LCCN 14005129
• Robert P. Porter (1915), "Ports and Other Cities: (Yokohama)", Japan, the New World-Power (2nd ed.), London: Oxford University Press
• "Short History of the City of Yokohama", Summary of the Yokohama City Annual Statistics (9), Yokohama City Office, 1920 (includes timeline)
• Yūzō Katō; Yokohama Shiritsu Daigaku (1990). Yokohama, past and present: 100th anniversary of Yokohama's incorporation 130th anniversary of the Port of Yokohama. Yokohama City University.

Published in the 21st century

• Hugh Cortazzi, ed. (2012). "Yokohama". Victorians in Japan: In and Around the Treaty Ports. Bloomsbury. pp. 54–92. ISBN 978-1-78093-977-3. (first published in 1987)
• Cornelis Theodoor van Assendelft de Coningh (2012). Martha Chaiklin, ed. A Pioneer in Yokohama: a Dutchman's Adventures in the New Treaty Port. Hackett Publishing. ISBN 1-60384-906-8.

External links

• Map of Yokohama, circa 1945
• Items related to Yokohama, various dates (via Europeana).
• Items related to Yokohama, various dates (via Digital Public Library of America).