710 (the Nara period): The capital city is moved from Asuka to Nara and the administration begins to try to enforce the land tax that was applied in the Taika reforms (a set of beliefs created by Emporer Kōtoku).
793 (the Nara period): The emperor Kammu decides to move the capital to Heiankyō (also called Kyōto) which is roughly 16 km away.
1156 (the Heian period): Taira Kiyomori, who takes power, thereby ending the ‘Insei’ era, defeats The Minamoto clan.
1185 (the end of the Heian period): Taira is defeated in the Gempei War, which resulted in Minamoto Yoritomo from the Hojo clan to seize power and become the first shogun of Japan, and the emperor just becomes a figurehead.
1221 (the Kamakura period): The imperial army is defeated by the Kamakura army and thereby declaring the power of the Kamakura shogunate (who are also called the Hojo regents) over the emperor.
1333 (end of the Kamakura period): Go-Daigo (emperor) reinstates imperial power by defeating the Kamakura shogunate and then moves the capital to Muromachi, which is close to Kyōto.
1467 (the Muromachi period): A civil war called the Onin war erupts and Japan is split among the daimyo, who were powerful feudal lords from the 10th century to the mid 19th century.
1560 (the Muromachi period): Oda Nobunaga who is one of the daimyo ends the civil war by unifying half the provinces in Japan.
1603 (the Edo period): The Tokugawa Shogunate splits the citizens of Japan into hereditary classes based on how important they are. The classes are lords, samurai, farmers, artisans and merchants.
1633 (the Edo period): Iemitsu, who is a shogun, declares that travelling abroad and reading books that are foreign are forbidden.
Tokugawa Iemitsu