Chronological Table

Chronological Table
Event			Japan											The West
														1540
Diffusion of the Japanese abacus (soroban), in these days														$Viete France$

Introduction of the tian yuan shu (tengenjutsu) with Suanxue qimeng from China, in these days	1592?
			1598
Establishment of the Edo Shogunate	1603	1600	$Yoshida Mitsuyoshi$											1603	1601
															$Fermat France$
Introduction of Western mathematics to China by the Jesuits	17th century
																1616
																$Wallis England$
First edition of Jinkoki by Yoshida Mitsuyoshi	1627

Full implementation of the seclusion policy	1639
Publication of Shinpen jinkoki (Idaibon (book that includes unresolved problems left for its readers)) by Yoshida Mitsuyoshi	1641			?	?												1642
				?	?												$Newton England$	1646
		1650		$Seki Takakazu$	$Araki Murahide$													$Leibniz Germany$

							1664	1662
							$Takebe Katahiro$	$Nakane Genkei$							1665
Hatsubisanpo by Seki Takakazu	1674		1673
						?
First calendar reform in several centuries (Jokyo calendar by Shibukawa Harumi)	1685					?
Edicts on Compassion for Living Things	1687					$Matsunaga Yoshisuke$

Establishment of the Shimizu school of surveying by Shimizu Sadanori	1694
		1700							1701	1704						1703
Completion of Taiseisankei compiled by Seki and the Takebe brothers	1710			1708					$Nakane Genjun$	$Yamaji Nushizumi$	1708								1707
Katsuyosanpo (Seki’s posthumous manuscript) by Araki Murahide	1712				?						$Toita Yasusuke$	1714							$Euler Switzerland$
Kyoho reform (by Tokugawa Yoshimune), including eased embargo	1716				?							$Arima Yoriyuki$						1716

Introduction of Lisuan quanshu (on Western astronomical mathematics) from China	1726																1727
Completion of the translation-by-Japanese-reading version of Lisuan quanshu ordered by Tokugawa Yoshimune	1733							1733					1734
						?	1739						$Fujita Sadasuke$
						?
			1747
		1750	$Aida Yasuaki$
Horeki calendar reform (in which Toita Yasusuke participated)	1755
									1761
Publication of Shukisanpo by Arima Yoriyuki, the feudal lord of the Kurume Domain	1769
Kaitaishinsho by Maeno Ryotaku, Sugita Genpaku, etc.	1774									1772
Sanposhojo by Chiba Tozo and his daughter, Akiko	1775						1775													1777
Dispute between Aida Yasuaki (Saijo school) and the Seki school	1785				1782		$Chiba Tanehide$				1784	1783							1783	$Gauss Germany$
Kansei reform (by Matsudaira Sadanobu)	1787			1787	$Hasegawa Hiroshi$																1786
				$Wada Yasushi$																	$Horner England$
Kansei calendar reform	1798
Start of surveying by Ino Tadataka	1800	1800
													1807
						1810
Completion of Enrikatsujutsu by Wada Yasushi	1817		1817			$Hasegawa Hiromu$

Siebold Incident	1828
Publication of Sanposhinsho by Chiba Tanehide, which went through several impressions	1830
Bansha no goku (Indictment of the society for Western (or barbarian) study)	1839				1838																1837
Tenpo reform (by Mizuno Tadakuni)	1841			1840
Tenpo calendar reform	1844						1849															1845
Perry’s visit	1853	1850																				$Cantor Germany$
									1855											1855
									$Kikuchi Dairoku$
Restoration of imperial rule, and change of the name of the era to Meiji in the following year	1867
Kikuchi Dairoku’s study in Britain	1870	1868
Administrative order issued to use Yosan (Western arithmetic)	1872

						1887
									1917													1918

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