Timeline of Yokohama

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

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

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  [ de ] 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  [ ja ] established. ^[1]
• 1875 - Far East English-language newspaper begins publication. ^[2]
• 1876 - Kanagawa Normal School  [ ja ] founded.
• 1880 - Yokohama Specie Bank ^{[10] [11]} and Yokohama Chamber of Commerce ^[12] established.
• 1882 - Yokohama School of Commerce  [ ja ] established. ^[9]
• 1886 - Cholera outbreak. ^[1]
• 1888 - January 31: Fire in Noge-cho  [ ja ]. ^[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  [ ja ] built.
• 1918 - Population: 447,423. ^[13]
• 1920
  • Yokohama Institute of Technology  [ ja ] and Kanagawa Youth Normal School  [ ja ] founded.
  • Population: 579,310. ^[13]
• 1923
  • September 1: 1923 Great Kantō earthquake. ^[17]
  • Yokohama College of Economics  [ ja ] founded.^{[ citation needed ]}
• 1924 - Yokohama International School founded.
• 1926 - Yokohama No. 2 Joint Government Office Building  [ ja ] constructed.
• 1928
  • Yokohama City College of Commerce  [ ja ] founded.
  • Kanagawa Prefectural Office  [ ja ] built.
• 1930
  • Yamashita Park opens.
  • Population: 704,236. ^[13]
• 1934 - Nissan Motor Co. factory begins operating.
• 1938 - Yokohama Customs building  [ ja ] constructed.
• 1940 - Population: 968,091. ^[13]
• 1942
  • Kanagawa Shimbun (newspaper) in publication.
  • Bombed in the Doolittle Raid.
• 1944 - Yokohama Municipal Medical College  [ ja ] founded. ^[9]
• 1945
  • Bombing of Yokohama during World War II.
  • Population: 624,994. ^[18]
• 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. ^[19]
• 1952 - Nagahama Hall (concert hall) built.
• 1956 - Yokohama designated a government ordinance city. ^[20]
• 1957 - Sister city relationship established with San Diego, USA. ^[21]
• 1960 - Population: 1,375,710.
• 1961 - Yokohama Marine Tower erected.
• 1963
  • November 9: Tsurumi rail accident. ^[17]
  • Ichio Asukata becomes mayor.
• 1972
  • Yokohama Municipal Subway begins operating.
  • Nissan Motors F.C.  [ ja ], one of the predecessors of J1 League soccer club Yokohama F. Marinos, formed.
• 1975 - Population: 2,620,000. ^[22]
• 1978
  • Yokohama Stadium opens.
  • Michikazu Saigō  [ ja ] becomes mayor.
• 1979 - Yokohama Municipal Children's Botanical Garden established. ^[23]
• 1980 - Yokohama Film Festival begins.
• 1981
  • Yokohama Archives of History established. ^[24]
  • Yokohama Jazz Festival begins.
• 1986 - Shinasobaya ramen eatery in business. ^[25]
• 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. ^[26]
• 1993 - Yokohama Flügels football team active.^{[ citation needed ]}
• 1994
  • Tsurumi Tsubasa Bridge built.
  • Shin-Yokohama Raumen Museum opens. ^[27]
• 1998 - International Stadium Yokohama opens.
• 1999 - Yokohama F. Marinos football team formed.

21st century

• 2002
  • Hiroshi Nakada becomes mayor.
  • 2002 FIFA World Cup final helds in International Stadium Yokohama.
• 2009 - Fumiko Hayashi elected mayor. ^[28]
• 2010 - Population: 3,688,773. ^[29]
• 2021
  • 2020 Summer Olympics football final helds in International Stadium Yokohama.
  • 2020 Summer Olympics baseball and softball final helds in Yokohama Stadium

See also

• Yokohama history
• Timeline of Yokohama (in Japanese)
• List of mayors of Yokohama  [ ja ]

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 30, 2015.
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 (1/4): 132–152. JSTOR   29787368.
14. Benjamin Vincent (1910), "Japan", Haydn's Dictionary of Dates (25th ed.), London: Ward, Lock & Co., hdl:2027/loc.ark:/13960/t89g6g776 – 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. "Population of capital city and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 1955. New York: Statistical Office of the United Nations.
19. Vernon N. Kisling, ed. (2000). "Zoological Gardens of Japan (chronological list)". Zoo and Aquarium History. USA: CRC Press. ISBN   978-1-4200-3924-5.
20. Philip Shapira; et al., eds. (1994). Planning for Cities and Regions in Japan. Liverpool University Press. ISBN   978-0-85323-248-3.
21. "Sister Cities". USA: City of San Diego. Retrieved December 1, 2015.
22. United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Statistical Office (1976). "Population of capital city and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 1975. New York. pp. 253–279.
23. "Garden Search: Japan". London: Botanic Gardens Conservation International . Retrieved July 30, 2015.
24. "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 30, 2015.
25. "Timeline of Ramen Development", Lucky Peach , January 2015
26. Richard Worth (2013). Baseball Team Names: A Worldwide Dictionary, 1869-2011. USA: McFarland & Company. ISBN   978-0-7864-9124-7.
27. Eric C. Rath and Stephanie Assmann, ed. (2010). Japanese Foodways, Past and Present. University of Illinois Press. ISBN   978-0-252-07752-4.
28. "Japanese Mayors". City Mayors.com. London: City Mayors Foundation . Retrieved July 30, 2015.
29. "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. hdl:2027/uc2.ark:/13960/t9m32q949.
• John R. Black (1883), Young Japan: Yokohama and Yedo, New York: Baker, Pratt & Co., OL   7199472M (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"  . Encyclopædia Britannica . Vol. 28 (11th ed.). 1910. p. 921.
• "Yokohama (Musashi)", Handbook for Travellers in Japan (9th ed.), London: J. Murray, 1913, hdl:2027/nnc1.50290956
• 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, Yokohama City Office, 1920, hdl:2027/umn.31951t00084131s (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   978-1-60384-906-7.

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).