1837 in Japan

Events in the year 1837 in Japan.

← 1836 1835 1834 1837 in Japan → 1838 1839 1840
Decades:	1810s 1820s 1830s 1840s 1850s
See also:	Other events of 1837 History of Japan  • Timeline  • Years

Incumbents

• Monarch: Ninkō^[1]

Events

• July – Morrison incident: A US ship is fired on by cannon when entering Tokyo Bay while attempting to repatriate castaway Japanese citizens.^[2]
• Tenpō famine which began in 1833 comes to an end.^[3]

Births

• 28 October – Tokugawa Yoshinobu, 15th and last Tokugawa shogunate (d. 1913)^[4]