Meiji Restoration
1868
Japan restores imperial rule and begins rapid modernization.
- Type
- Event
- Date
- 1868
- Place
- Japan
Who was alive during Meiji Restoration
- Charles Babbage 1791–1871, mathematician
- Cornelius Vanderbilt 1794–1877, shipping and railroad tycoon
- Alexandre Dumas 1802–1870, writer
- Charles Darwin 1809–1882, naturalist
- Alfred Krupp 1812–1887, industrialist
- Charles Dickens 1812–1870, writer
- David Livingstone 1813–1873, explorer
- Baháʼu'lláh 1817–1892, religious leader
- Clara Barton 1821–1912, nurse
- Alfred Nobel 1833–1896, chemist
- Dmitri Mendeleev 1834–1907, chemist
- Andrew Carnegie 1835–1919, steel magnate
- Auguste Rodin 1840–1917, sculptor
- Claude Monet 1840–1926, painter
- Abdul Hamid II 1842–1918, sultan
- Alexander Graham Bell 1847–1922, inventor
- Antoni Gaudí 1852–1926, architect
- Calamity Jane 1852–1903, frontierswoman
- Abdolkarim Haeri Yazdi 1859–1937, ayatollah
- Arthur Conan Doyle 1859–1930, writer
- Billy the Kid 1859–1881, outlaw
- Annie Oakley 1860–1926, sharpshooter
- Anton Chekhov 1860–1904, playwright
- Claude Debussy 1862–1918, composer