History of Komatsushima, Japan.

• Komatsushima was originally a small fishing village.
• 1899; A port facility is opened and commercial development begins.
• 1933; Regular ferry service begins connecting Shikoku Island with cities on Honshu.
• 1923; A large spinning mill opens in Komatsushima.
• 1951; Komatsushima is designated a city.

History of Japan ^{[2] [3]}

• 950 to 1250; Medieval Warm Period.

• 1300-1850: The Little Ice Age.

• 1914 - 1920 The First World War. [More Information]
  • 1917; Fort Jackson, SC, the nation's largest U.S. Army training facility, established to prepare soldiers for World War I.
  • 1917, February 3: US severs diplomatic ties with Germany.
  • 1917, April 6: The US declares war on Germany.
  • 1918, March 3: Russia and Germany sign an armistice at Brest-Litovsk.
  • 1918, May 28: US forces make their first offensive, at Cantigny, France.
  • 1918, November 11: Armistice Day. At the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, Germany signs an armistice with the Allies. The war is officially over. More than 8.5 million have been killed and over twice as many wounded from across the globe. New technology has been created, America has risen to prominence as an economic power and new countries are forming in Europe and the Middle East.
• 1923, September 1, Great Kantō earthquake .
• 1931, September 18, Japan invades Manchuria.
• 1935, October 3; The Second Italo-Abyssinian War. Italian armed forces from Eritrea invaded Ethiopia without a declaration of war. In response Ethiopia declares war on Italy. On October 7, the League of Nations declared Italy to be the aggressor, and started the slow process of imposing limited sanctions on Italy.
• 1937, December 13 – January 1938; The Nanking Massacre was a mass murder (50,000–300,000 dead) and mass rape committed by Japanese troops against the residents of Nanjing (Nanking), then the capital of the Republic of China, during the Second Sino-Japanese War. ^[Ref]
• 1939 - 1945 World War II. [More Information]
  • Axis powers (Germany, Italy, Japan, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria) versus Allies (U.S., Britain, France, USSR, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Denmark, Greece, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, South Africa, Yugoslavia).
  • 1939: Germany invades Poland.
    
  • 1941, December 7: Japan attacks Pearl Harbor.
  • 1942, April: American and Filipino prisoners of war are forced to endure World War II Bataan Death March in the Philippines.
  • 1945, April 12: President Franklin D. Roosevelt dies at Warm Springs, Georgia.
  • 1945, May 8: Victory in Europe, V-E Day.
  • 1945, September 2: Victory over Japan, V-J Day Japanese sign surrender terms aboard battleship Missouri (BB-63).
    
• 1945; The United Nations develops a plan for a trusteeship administration of the Korean Peninsula. The Soviet Union administering the peninsula north of the 38th parallel and the United States administering the south.
• 1950 - 1953; The Korean War is fought in Korea.
• 1954; U.S. Supreme Court decides in Brown v. Board of Education, Topeka that "separate" schools cannot be "equal." This paved the way for desegregation and the civil rights movement.