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This Online Campaign is based, as accurate as possible, on real Japanese history. To enhance the historical efftect this history page have been made.
Contents:
1: A simple description of every participating clan.
2: A general description of the Sengoku Jidai.
3: Some of the greatest battles.
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MISC:
Until the site is finished some the most important event dates:
1467-77 A.D. The Onin War sees the decline of Shogun power and begins the Sengoku Jidai (The Age of the Country at War) which last 150 years.
1543 A.D. Portuguese guns are introduced into Japan.
1549 A.D. Jesuit Francis Xavier arrives and begins proselytizing.
1560 A.D. Oda Nobunaga begins the process of unifying Japan.
1568 A.D. Oda Nobunaga seizes Kyoto, Sengoku Jidai draws to a close.
1573 A.D. Last Ashikaga shogun is expelled from Kyoto.
1575 A.D. Nobunaga and Tokugawa Ieyasu win battle at Nagashino.
1582 A.D. After Nobunaga is assassinated, Toyotomi Hideyoshi seizes power.
1592 A.D. Hideyoshi invades Korea for the first time, a second invasion occurs in 1597.
1598 A.D. Troops are withdrawn from Korea after Hideyoshi dies.
1600 A.D. Ieyasu asserts military hegemony with a victory at Sekigahara, the first Dutch ship arrives.
1603 A.D. Tokugawa Ieyasu acquires title of shogun, Okuni's troupe perform first kabuki dances in Kyoto.
Sources:
www.Samurai-Archives.com.
http://www.kiku.com/electric_samurai/cobweb_castle/samurai_gallery.html
http://members.tripod.com/OniBushi/id38.htm
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