The Republic of Ezo was a short-lived separatist state established in 1869 on the island of Ezo, now Hokkaido, by a part of the former military of the Tokugawa shogunate at the end of the Bakumatsu period in Japan. It was the first government to attempt to institute democracy in Japan, though…
19th Century · 27th January
Boshin War: Tokugawa rebels establish the Ezo Republic in Hokkaidō.
1869
Year of Event
157
Years Ago