Timeline of Hiroshima
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Hiroshima, Japan.
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Prior to 20th century
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- 1599 - Hiroshima Castle built.
- 1871 - City becomes seat of Hiroshima Prefecture.[1]
- 1874 - Hakushima School founded.[2]
- 1887
- 1889 - Hiroshima becomes a municipality.[1]
- 1892 - Chugoku Shimbun (newspaper) begins publication.[4]
- 1894 - San'yō Railway begins operating.[1]
20th century
- 1902 - Hiroshima Higher Normal School founded.[2]
- 1909 - Population: 142,763.[5]
- 1912 - Hiroshima Electric Railway begins operating.
- 1918 - Rice riot occurs.[6]
- 1920 - Toyo Cork Kogyo Co. (later Mazda) in business.[7]
- 1929 - Hiroshima University of Literature and Science established.[2]
- 1945 - August 6: Atomic bombing of Hiroshima by US forces.[8]
- 1947
- Hiroshima Peace Memorial Ceremony begins.
- Shinzo Hamai becomes mayor.
- 1949 - Hiroshima University[2] and Hiroshima Stock Exchange[4] established.
- 1950 - Hiroshima Toyo Carp baseball team formed.[9]
- 1951 - Chugoku Electric Power Company headquartered in city.[4]
- 1954 - Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park established.
- 1955
- 1971 - Hiroshima City Asa Zoological Park founded.[11]
- 1975 - Takeshi Araki becomes mayor.
- 1976 - Hiroshima Botanical Garden opens.[12]
- 1978 - Hiroshima Museum of Art established.
- 1980 - Hiroshima designated a government ordinance city.[13]
- 1985 - Hiroshima International Animation Festival begins.[14]
- 1991 - Takashi Hiraoka becomes mayor.
- 1992 - Hiroshima Big Arch (stadium) opens.
- 1994
- August: Astram Line (public transit) begins operating.
- October: 1994 Asian Games held in Hiroshima.
- 1999 - Tadatoshi Akiba becomes mayor.
21st century
- 2000 - Population: 1,126,282.[4]
- 2010 - Population: 1,173,843.[15]
- 2011 - Kazumi Matsui elected mayor.[16]
See also
References
- 1 2 3 Schellinger 1996.
- 1 2 3 4 5 "University History". Hiroshima University. Retrieved July 2015.
- ↑ W.N. Whitney, ed. (1889). "List of towns having population of over 10,000". Concise Dictionary of the Principal Roads, Chief Towns and Villages of Japan. Tokyo: Z.P. Maruya and Co..
- 1 2 3 4 "Japan". Europa World Year Book. Europa Publications. 2004. ISBN 978-1-85743-254-1.
- ↑ Kuniko Fujita and Richard Child Hill, ed. (1993). Japanese Cities. USA: Temple University Press. ISBN 978-1-4399-0092-5.
- ↑ Michael Lewis (1990). Rioters and Citizens: Mass Protest in Imperial Japan. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-06642-7.
- 1 2 William D. Hoover (2011). Historical Dictionary of Postwar Japan. USA: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-7539-5.
- ↑ BBC News. "Japan Profile: Timeline". Retrieved July 2015.
- ↑ Richard Worth (2013). Baseball Team Names: A Worldwide Dictionary, 1869-2011. USA: McFarland & Company. ISBN 978-0-7864-9124-7.
- ↑ 市史等の販売 [City history bookstore] (in Japanese), City of Hiroshima, retrieved July 2015
- ↑ Vernon N. Kisling, ed. (2000). "Zoological Gardens of Japan (chronological list)". Zoo and Aquarium History. USA: CRC Press. ISBN 978-1-4200-3924-5.
- ↑ "Garden Search: Japan". London: Botanic Gardens Conservation International. Retrieved July 2015.
- ↑ Philip Shapira; et al., eds. (1994). Planning for Cities and Regions in Japan. Liverpool University Press. ISBN 978-0-85323-248-3.
- ↑ Jasper Sharp (2011). Historical Dictionary of Japanese Cinema. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-7541-8.
- ↑ "Population of Capital Cities and Cities of 100,000 or More Inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 2013. United Nations Statistics Division.
- ↑ "Japanese Mayors". City Mayors.com. London: City Mayors Foundation. Retrieved July 2015.
This article incorporates information from the Japanese Wikipedia.
Bibliography
- "Hiroshima", Encyclopaedia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424
- "Hiroshima", Handbook for Travellers in Japan (9th ed.), London: J. Murray, 1913
- Schellinger and Salkin, ed. (1996). "Hiroshima". International Dictionary of Historic Places: Asia and Oceania. UK: Routledge. p. 349+. ISBN 9781884964046.
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- "History of Hiroshima". City of Hiroshima.
- Hiroshima University Library. "Digital Hiroshima Library". Special Collections (in Japanese).
- Map of Hiroshima, 1945
- Items related to Hiroshima, various dates (via Europeana).
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