Ainu

Ainu appears on the timeline as a people or culture of Japan (East Asia) from c. 1200 CE to the present, a span of 825 years. Its people spoke Isolates and ancient languages (Sumerian, Elamite, Hurrian, Urartian, Hattic, Kassite, Etruscan, Basque, Ainu).

The indigenous people of Hokkaido, Sakhalin and the Kurils, with bear ceremonies and the yukar oral epics. They fought the Japanese in Shakushain's revolt of 1669, and Japan recognized them as indigenous only in 2019.

See Ainu on the interactive timeline

Facts

Dates

c. 1200 CE to the present

Duration

825 years

Type

People or culture

Region

Japan, East Asia

Language family

Isolates and ancient

Came from

• Satsumon culture c. 700 to 1200 CE

Events in East Asia during its time

• 1281 Kamikaze wreck the Mongol fleet
• 1405 Zheng He's first voyage
• 1446 Hangul proclaimed
• 1592 Japanese invasion of Korea
• 1600 Battle of Sekigahara
• 1644 Fall of Beijing
• 1839 First Opium War
• 1853 Perry's black ships

Neighbours in East Asia

• Ming dynasty 1368 to 1644 CE
• Qing dynasty 1636 to 1912 CE
• Yuan dynasty 1271 to 1368 CE
• Empire of Japan 1868 to 1947 CE
• People's Republic of China 1949 CE to the present
• Joseon 1392 to 1897 CE
• Goryeo 918 to 1392 CE
• Ganden Phodrang (Dalai Lama government) 1642 to 1951 CE
• Edo period (Tokugawa shogunate) 1603 to 1868 CE
• Muromachi shogunate 1336 to 1573 CE

Elsewhere in the world at the same time

• Republic of Venice c. 697 to 1797 CE, Europe
• Byzantine Empire 395 to 1453 CE, Europe
• Byzantine Empire 395 to 1453 CE, Middle East
• Swahili city-states c. 800 to 1700 CE, Central and Southern Africa
• Ghana Empire (Wagadu) c. 300 to 1200 CE, North and West Africa
• Holy Roman Empire 962 to 1806 CE, Europe
• Srivijaya c. 650 to 1377 CE, Southeast Asia
• Ethiopian Empire (Solomonic dynasty) 1270 to 1974 CE, North and West Africa
• Khmer Empire 802 to 1431 CE, Southeast Asia
• Ottoman Empire 1299 to 1922 CE, Europe

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