1837 in Japan

Events in the year 1837 in Japan.

Incumbents

• Monarch: Ninkō

Events

• July – Morrison incident: A US ship is fired on by cannon when entering Tokyo Bay while attempting to repatriate castaway Japanese citizens.
• Tenpō famine which began in 1833 comes to an end.

Births

• 28 October – Tokugawa Yoshinobu, 15th and last Tokugawa shogunate (d. 1913)

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