1858 in Japan
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Events in the year 1858 in Japan.
Incumbents
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Events
- 9 April - 1858 Hietsu earthquake{{cite journal |author=Inoue K., Mizuyama T. & Sakatani Y. |year=2010 |title=The Catastrophic Tombi Landslide and Accompanying Landslide Dams Induced by the 1858 Hietsu Earthquake |url=http://www.fujipress.jp/finder/xslt.php?mode=present&inputfile=DSSTR000500030003.xml |journal=Journal of Disaster Research |volume=5 |issue=3 |pages=245–256 |doi=10.20965/jdr.2010.p0245 |doi-access=free}}
- Start of the Ansei Purge{{Cite book |last=Nussbaum |first=Louis-Frédéric |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p2QnPijAEmEC&pg=PA33 |title=Japan Encyclopedia |date=2002 |publisher=Harvard University Press |isbn=978-0-674-01753-5 |pages=33 |language=en}}
- Ichikawa Kumehachi make her stage debut as the first actress to appear on stage in Japan since actresses were banned in 1629.{{Cite book |last=Shiro |first=Okamoto |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-aUm6mBcwpkC |title=The Man Who Saved Kabuki: Faubion Bowers and Theatre Censorship in Occupied Japan |date=2001-04-01 |publisher=University of Hawaii Press |isbn=978-0-8248-2382-5 |pages=12–13 |language=en}}
Incumbents
Births
- January 25 - Mikimoto Kōkichi (d. 1954), businessman
Deaths
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References
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