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Kagoshima
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Kagoshima
12 events
Prehistoric
Initial Jōmon period
An Initial Jōmon village forms at Uenohara
Nara
713–720
Ōsumi Province is created, and the Hayato rise against the court
Medieval
1197
Shimazu Tadahisa is appointed military governor of Satsuma and Ōsumi
Sengoku
1543
Firearms arrive on Tanegashima
1549
Francis Xavier lands in Kagoshima
Edo
1609
Satsuma invades the Ryukyu Kingdom
1745
Satsuma makes Amami pay taxes in brown sugar
1851
Shimazu Nariakira launches the Shūseikan industrial project
1865
Satsuma sends students to Britain
Meiji
1877
The Satsuma Rebellion
Modern
1914
The Taishō eruption of Sakurajima
Contemporary
1953
The Amami Islands return to Japan
Nearby
Kumamoto
Miyazaki
Okinawa