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Yamaguchi
10 events
Nara
Early 8th – 11th century
Copper from the Naganobori mine is used for the Great Buddha of Tōdaiji
Muromachi
c. 1360
The Ōuchi clan makes Yamaguchi its base
Sengoku
1551
Francis Xavier is allowed to preach in Yamaguchi
Edo
1604
Mōri Terumoto moves to Hagi Castle, founding the Hagi domain
1673
Kikkawa Hiroyoshi builds the Kintai Bridge in Iwakuni
1719–1858
Hagi's schools train the domain's future leaders
1856–1860
Hagi experiments with a reverberatory furnace and Western-style ships
1863–1864
The Chōshū domain fights foreign fleets at Shimonoseki
1866
Chōshū defeats the shogunate's forces in the Shikyō War
Meiji
1895
The Treaty of Shimonoseki ends the First Sino-Japanese War
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