22 December 1847
Birth of Heihachiro Togo
Birth of Heihachiro Togo
Historical place archive
Browse historical events and people recorded at Kagoshima in Japan. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.
Birth of Heihachiro Togo
Kagoshima is bombarded by the British Royal Navy to punish the Satsuma daimyo for the murder of Charles Lennox Richardson on the Tokaido highway
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