The Shogunate takes major steps towards the …
Years: 1865 - 1865
November
The Shogunate takes major steps towards the construction of a modern and powerful military: a navy with a core of eight steam warships has been built over several years and is already the strongest in Asia.
In 1865, Japan's first modern naval arsenal is built in Yokosuka by the French engineer Léonce Verny.
Locations
People
- Ernest Mason Satow
- Harry Smith Parkes
- Inoue Kaoru
- Itō Hirobumi
- Léonce Verny
- Napoleon III
- Saigō Takamori
- Thomas Blake Glover
Groups
- Japan, Tokugawa, or Edo, Period
- United States of America (US, USA) (Washington DC)
- Britain (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland)
- France, Second Empire of
