Editing Dejima (section)

==Chronology==
* 1550: Portuguese ships visit [[Hirado]].
* 1561: Following the murder of foreigners in the area of the Hirado clan, the Portuguese began to look for other ports to trade.
* 1570: Christian ''daimyō'' [[Ōmura Sumitada]] make a deal with the Portuguese to develop [[Nagasaki]], six town blocks are built.
* 1571: Nagasaki Harbor is opened for trade, the first Portuguese ships enter.
* 1580: [[Ōmura Sumitada]] cedes jurisdiction over Nagasaki and Mogi to the [[Society of Jesus|Jesuits]].
* 1588: [[Toyotomi Hideyoshi]] exerts direct control over Nagasaki, Mogi, and Urakami from the Jesuits.
* 1609: The [[Dutch East India Company]] opens a factory in Hirado. It closes in 1641 when it is moved to Dejima.
* 1612: Japan's feudal government decrees that Christian proselytizing on Bakufu lands is forbidden.
* 1616: All trade with foreigners except that with China is confined to Hirado and Nagasaki.
* 1634: The construction of Dejima begins.
* 1636: Dejima is completed; the Portuguese are interned on Dejima ([[Closed Country Edict of 1635|Fourth National Isolation Edict]]).
* 1638: [[Shimabara Rebellion]] of Christian peasants is repressed with Dutch support, [[Kakure Kirishitan|Christianity in Japan is repressed]].
* 1639: Portuguese ships are prohibited from entering Japan. Consequently, the Portuguese are banished from Dejima.
* 1641: The Dutch East India Company Trading Post in Hirado is moved to Nagasaki.
* 1649: German surgeon [[Caspar Schamberger]] comes to Japan. Beginning of a lasting interest in Western style medicine.
* 1662: A shop is opened on Dejima to sell [[Imari porcelain]].
* 1673: The English ship ''Return'' enters Nagasaki, but the shogunate refuses its request for trade.
* 1678: A bridge connecting Dejima with the shore is replaced with a stone bridge.
* 1690: German physician [[Engelbert Kaempfer]] comes to Dejima.
* 1696: Warehouses for secondary cargo reach completion on Dejima.
* 1698: The Nagasaki Kaisho (trade association) is founded.
* 1699: The Sea Gate is built at Dejima.
* 1707: Water pipes are installed on Dejima.
* 1775: [[Carl Thunberg]] starts his term as physician on Dejima.
* 1779: Surgeon [[Isaac Titsingh]] arrives for his first tour of duty as ''"[[Opperhoofd]]".''
* 1798: Many buildings, including the Chief Factor's Residence, are destroyed by the Great ''Kansei'' Fire of Dejima.
* 1804: Russian Ambassador [[Nikolai Rezanov]] visits Nagasaki to request an exchange of trade between Japan and Imperial Russia.
* 1808: The [[Phaeton Incident|''Phaeton'' Incident]] occurs.
* 1823: German physician [[Philipp Franz von Siebold]] posted to Dejima.