<info>During this time Japan lived in a self-isolation called "sakoku," or national seclusion. This period ended when Commodore Matthew C. Perry sailed to Japan with a fleet of U.S. warships.
#e <t>battle<n>Battle of the Boyne<d>1690 Jul 1<c>/*Boyne River*/Ireland<info>William II defeats James II
#e <t>period<n>The Classical Period<d>1700(25)<e>1800(25)<c>Europe<aka>the Enlightenment<info>Europe's Classical period is nominally the 18th century. The Romantic period is nominally the 19th century, and the Modern period is the 20th century.
#e <t>war<n>War of the Spanish Succession<d>1701<e>1714<c>Europe
#e <t>treaty<n>Treaty of Utrecht<d>1713<c>Utrecht
#e <t>war<n>War of the Austrian Succession<d>1740<e>1748<c>Europe
#p <nat>North Vietnamese<o>president<n>Ho Chi Minh<sur>Ho Chi Minh<b>1890<d>1969
#p <nat>Ethiopian<o>emperor<n>Haile Selassie<aka>Tafari Makonnen<b>1892 Jul 23<ac>1930<depo>1935<ac>1941<depo>1974<d>1975 Aug 27<c>Addis Ababa
<info>Haile Selassie was exiled from 1935 to 1941 during the Italian Fascist occupation of Ethiopia.
#p <nat>Chinese<o>ruler<n>Mao Zedong<b>1893 Dec 26<pow>1949<d>1976 Sep 9
/*<c>Hunan<mov>1918<c>Beijing<mov>1919<c>Hunan<mov>1927<c>Jiangsu (Kiangsi) province<c>Ruijin<dep>1934 Oct<c>Zunyi (Tsun-i) in Guizhou (Kweichow)<arr>1935 Oct<c>Shaanxi (Shensi)<c>Yenan*/
<c>Beijing<info>Mao Zedong was one of the founders of the Chinese Communist party in 1921, and founded the People's Republic of China in 1949. He is regarded, along with Karl Marx and V. I. Lenin, as one of the three great theorists of Marxian communism. Along with the founders of the Han and Ming dynasties, Mao Zedong was one of only three peasants who rose to rule all of China in a single lifetime.<ref>Grolier
#e <t>decree<n>Sweden cedes Finland to Russia<c>Finland<d>1809
#e <t>war<n>War of 1812<d>1812<e>1815<c>North America
#e <t>coin<d>1830<n>"scientist"<au>Whewell
#e <t>coin<d>1840<n>"consilience"<au>Whewell
#e <t>decree<d>1844<n>Dominican Republic secedes from Haiti<c>Dominican Republic
#e <d>1845<e>1847<n>Potato Famine<c>Ireland<info>About one million people perished in Ireland, and an equal number emigrated, when the potato crop failed.