<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meiji_Restoration" id="mwiA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Meiji Restoration">Meiji Restoration</a>: Having taken the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokugawa_shogunate" id="mwiQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Tokugawa shogunate">shogunate’s</a> seat of power at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edo" id="mwig" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Edo">Edo</a> and declared it his new capital as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo" id="mwiw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Tokyo">Tokyo</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Meiji" id="mwjA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Emperor Meiji">Mutsuhito</a> proclaims the start of the new <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meiji_era" id="mwjQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Meiji era">Meiji era</a>.<sup about="#mwt40" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-6"}}' id="cite_ref-6" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./October_23#cite_note-6" id="mwjg" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 6;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwjw">[6]</span></a></sup>
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