Timeline of Kyoto
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, Honshu island, Japan.
Prior to 19th century
    
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- 794 CE - Kanmu relocates Japanese capital to Heian-kyō from Nagaoka-kyō.[1][2]
 - 947 - Kitano Shrine built.
 - 970 - Gion Festival begins.[3]
 - 1202 - Zen Buddhist Kennin-ji (temple) founded in Higashiyama by Eisai.
 - 1319 - Daitoku-ji Temple built.[4]
 - 1397 - Kinkaku-ji (Temple of the Golden Pavilion) founded.[5]
 - 1431 - Famine.[5]
 - 1444 - Political protest by merchants, at Kitano Shrine.[6]
 - 1467 - Ōnin War begins.[7]
 - 1480 - Ikkō-ikki unrest.[8]
 - 1560 - Aritsugu swordsmith in business.
 - 1586
- Jurakudai (palace) built.
 - Hōkō-ji (temple) founded.[9]
 - Tenshō earthquake brings destruction and kills many.[10]
 
 - 1788 - Great Kyoto Fire.[11]
 
19th century
    
- 1854 - Kyoto Imperial Palace rebuilt.[11]
 - 1869 - Japanese imperial capital relocated from Kyoto to Tokyo.[11]
 - 1871
- Tokyo-Osaka-Kyoto postal service begins.[12]
 - Kyoto Prefecture created.[13]
 
 - 1872 - Exhibition of Arts and Manufactures held.
 - 1875 - Protestant Doshisha English School established.[14]
 - 1877 - Kyōto Station opens.
 - 1879 - Kamigyō-ku and Shimogyō-ku ward established.
 - 1886 - Maruyama Park opens.
 - 1887 - Population: 264,559.[15]
 - 1888 - Takocho (eatery) in business.[16]
 - 1890 - Lake Biwa Canal built.[17]
 - 1893 - Population: 317,270.[18]
 - 1895
- Kyoto Electric Railway begins operating.
 - National Industrial Exposition (Japan) held in Kyoto;[19][20] Heian Shrine built.[14]
 
 - 1897
- Imperial University of Kyoto established.[13]
 - Chūgai Nippō religious newspaper begins publication.
 
 - 1899 - Kyoto Camera Club formed.[21]
 - 1900 - Miyako Hotel in business.[4]
 
20th century
    
- 1903
- Kyoto Municipal Zoo established.[22]
 - Population: 379,404.[17]
 
 - 1904 - Japan's first ekiben (boxed lunch) sold in Kyoto.[12]
 - 1909
 - 1913
 - 1918 - Population: 670,357.[18]
 - 1921 - Higashiyama-ku ward created.
 - 1922 - Kyoto Sanga Football Club formed.
 - 1924 - Kyoto Botanical Garden established.[26]
 - 1925
 - 1928 - Hirohito's imperial enthronement ceremony held in Kyoto.[14]
 - 1929
- Nakagyō-ku and Sakyō-ku wards created.
 - City hosts Institute of Pacific Relations conference.
 
 - 1930 - Population: 765,142
 - 1931 - Fushimi-ku and Ukyō-ku wards created.
 - 1934 - Salon de thé François (café) opens.
 - 1940 - Population: 1,089,726.[18]
 - 1942
- Kyoto Shimbun newspaper in publication.[3]
 - Nishikyogoku Athletic Stadium opens.
 
 - 1945 - Population: 866,153.[29]
 - 1946 - November: National Sports Festival of Japan held in Kyoto.[30]
 - 1950 - Population: 1,101,854.[18]
 - 1955 - Kita-ku and Minami-ku wards created.
 - 1956 - Kyoto designated a government ordinance city.[31]
 - 1960
- Kyoto Kaikan (concert hall) opens.
 - National Christian Council Center for the Study of Japanese Religions founded.[32]
 
 - 1964 - Kyoto Tower erected.
 - 1969 - Kyoto Computer Gakuin (school) established.
 - 1970 - October: Kyoto hosts World Conference of Religions for Peace.[33]
 - 1975 - Population: 1,460,000.[34]
 - 1976 - Nishikyō-ku and Yamashina-ku wards created.
 - 1981 - Kyoto Municipal Subway begins operating.
 - 1987 - City hosts World Conference of Historical Cities.[35]
 - 1988 - Nettowāku Kyōto (magazine) in publication.[36]
 - 1994 - Kyoto UNESCO World Heritage Site established.[37]
 - 1995 - Kyoto Concert Hall opens.
 - 1996 - Yorikane Masumoto elected mayor.
 - 1997
- Kyōto Station rebuilt.
 - City hosts signing of the Kyoto Protocol.
 
 - 2000
- Kyoto Art Center opens.
 - Population: 1,467,705.[38]
 
 
21st century
    
- 2001 - Movix Kyoto (cinema) opens.[39]
 - 2008 - February 17: 2008 Kyoto mayoral election held; Daisaku Kadokawa wins.[40]
 - 2011 - Population: 1,473,746.
 - 2012 - February 5: 2012 Kyoto mayoral election held.
 - 2019 – July 18: An arson fire burned down the original Kyoto Animation studio. 36 employees were killed.
 
See also
    
    
References
    
- Webster's Geographical Dictionary, US: G. & C. Merriam Co., 1960, p. 582, OL 5812502M
 - Kenneth Henshall (2014). "Chronology". Historical Dictionary of Japan to 1945. US: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-7872-3.
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 - Kozo Yamamura, ed. (1990). "Chronology of Medieval Period". Medieval Japan. Cambridge History of Japan. Vol. 3. Cambridge University Press. p. 31+. ISBN 0521223520.
 - Durston 2005.
 - Berry 1997.
 - Gay 2001.
 - Dougill 2006.
 - Utsu, Tokuji; Shima, Etsuzo; Yoshii, Toshiyoshi; Yamashina, Kenichiro (2001). 地震の事典. Asakura Shoten.
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 - W.N. Whitney, ed. (1889). "List of towns having population of over 10,000". Concise Dictionary of the Principal Roads, Chief Towns and Villages of Japan. Tokyo: Z.P. Maruya and Co.. hdl:2027/hvd.hnngzq.
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 - Britannica 1910.
 - Ayanori Okasaki (1957). "Growth of Urban Population in Japan". Genus. 13 (1/4): 132–152. JSTOR 29787368.
 - "Expositions: where the modern technology of the times was exhibited". Tokyo: National Diet Library. 2011.
 - F. Brinkley (1895), Kyoto Industrial Exhibition of 1895, Printed at the "Japan Mail" Office, OL 7125229M
 - "Chronology". History of Japanese Photography. US: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. 2003. ISBN 978-0-300-09925-6.
 - Vernon N. Kisling, ed. (2000). "Zoological Gardens of Japan (chronological list)". Zoo and Aquarium History. US: CRC Press. ISBN 978-1-4200-3924-5.
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 - Kuniko Fujita and Richard Child Hill, ed. (1993). Japanese Cities. US: Temple University Press. ISBN 978-1-4399-0092-5.
 -  Album of the Hirase Conchological Museum, Kyoto, 1915, OCLC 8607506, OL 23270621M
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - "Garden Search: Japan". London: Botanic Gardens Conservation International. Retrieved July 30, 2015.
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 -  Y. Takenobu (1928). "Population of the Cities". Japan Year Book 1929. Tokyo.
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 - Philip Shapira; et al., eds. (1994). Planning for Cities and Regions in Japan. Liverpool University Press. ISBN 978-0-85323-248-3.
 - "About". NCC Center for the Study of Japanese Religions. Retrieved May 30, 2014.
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{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - "About". League of Historical Cities. Retrieved May 30, 2014.
 - Nettowāku Kyōto. US: Online Computer Library Center. OCLC 835776001 – via WorldCat.
 - Brumann 2012.
 - "Japan". Europa World Year Book. Europa Publications. 2004. ISBN 978-1-85743-254-1.
 - "Movie Theaters in Kyoto". CinemaTreasures.org. Los Angeles: Cinema Treasures LLC. Retrieved May 30, 2014.
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This article incorporates information from the Japanese Wikipedia.
Bibliography
    
- Published in the 17th-19th centuries
 
- Kyo-habutae [Kyoto Brocade] (in Japanese). 1685. (guidebook)
 - Kaibara Ekiken (1706–1718). Keijo shoran [Excellent Views of Kyoto] (in Japanese). Kyoto: Ryugiken.
 - Hiroshige, Kyoto meisho no uchi [Famous Places of Kyoto] (in Japanese) c. 1835
 - M. Ichihara (1895), Official guide-book to Kyoto and the allied prefectures, Nara: Meishinsha, OCLC 2600346
 
- Published in the 20th century
 
- Kyoto City Council (1903). Kyōto, Japan. K. Azumae.
 - H. Hotta (1903). "City of Kyoto". Up-to-date guide for the land of the rising sun. Kobe: Z.P. Maruya & Co.
 - Basil Hall Chamberlain; W.B. Mason (1907), "Kyōto", Handbook for Travellers in Japan (8th ed.), London: J. Murray, OCLC 1329108
 - . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 15 (11th ed.). 1910. p. 825.
 - T. Philip Terry (1914), "Kyoto and its Environs", Terry's Japanese Empire, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, LCCN 14005129
 - Robert P. Porter (1915), "The Larger Cities: Kyoto", Japan, the new world-power (2nd ed.), London: Milford
 - Richard Ponsonby-Fane. (1956). Kyoto: The Old Capital of Japan, 794-1869. Kyoto: The Ponsonby Memorial Society.
 - Schellinger and Salkin, ed. (1996). "Kyoto". International Dictionary of Historic Places: Asia and Oceania. UK: Routledge. p. 515+. ISBN 9781884964046.
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- Published in the 21st century
 
- Suzanne Marie Gay (2001). The Moneylenders of Late Medieval Kyoto. University of Hawaii Press. ISBN 978-0-8248-2461-7.
 - Nicolas Fiévé and Paul Waley [in French], ed. (2003). Japanese Capitals in Historical Perspective: Place, Power and Memory in Kyoto, Edo and Tokyo. RoutledgeCurzon. ISBN 978-0-7007-1409-4.
 - Diane Durston (2005). "History". Old Kyoto: A Guide to Traditional Shops, Restaurants, and Inns. Kodansha International. ISBN 978-4-7700-2994-2.
 - John Dougill (2006). "City of Unification". Kyoto: A Cultural History. Cityscapes. Oxford University Press. p. 109+. ISBN 978-0-19-976046-6.
 - Matthew P. McKelway (2006). Capitalscapes: Folding Screens And Political Imagination in Late Medieval Kyoto. University of Hawaii Press. ISBN 978-0-8248-2900-1.
 - Christoph Brumann (2012). "Re-uniting a divided city: High-rises, conflict, and urban space in central Kyoto". In Christoph Brumann and Evelyn Schulz (ed.). Urban Spaces in Japan: Cultural and Social Perspectives. Japanese Studies Series. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-136-31883-2.
 - Christoph Brumann (2012). Tradition, Democracy and the Townscape of Kyoto: Claiming a Right to the Past. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-69070-6.
 
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