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Tokyo
9 events · 1456 to 2021
Medieval
1456–1457
Ota Dokan completes a castle at Edo
Early modern
1603
Tokugawa Ieyasu establishes the shogunate centered on Edo
1657
The Great Fire of Meireki devastates Edo
18th–19th centuries
Commercial publishing expands Edo popular culture
Modern
1868
Edo is renamed Tokyo and Tokyo-fu is established
1923
The Great Kanto Earthquake devastates Tokyo
1942–1945
Repeated air raids devastate Tokyo
Contemporary
1964
Tokyo hosts the 1964 Summer Olympics
2021
The postponed Tokyo 2020 Games are held in 2021
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