|
DATE |
PLACE |
HISTORICAL EVENT |
|
800 B.C. |
China |
Boxing can be traced back reliable
to the Choe Dynasty |
|
700 B.C. |
China |
Wrestling in China |
|
23 B.C. |
Japan |
First Sumo-match took place in front
of Emperor Suinin of Japan |
|
220 A.D. |
|
Hua To, "five animals play"-tiger,
deer, monkey, bear and bird-were developed |
|
470 |
India |
Bodhidarma was born as the Prince
of Kanchipura in the South of India |
|
516 |
China |
The Shaolin Temple was built |
|
527 |
China |
Bodhidarma arrived at the Shaolin
Temple |
|
547 |
China |
The first reference to Bodhidarma
was written in "The History of the temples Lo-Yang" by Yang Hsu |
|
552-710 |
Japan |
The Asuka Period: Buddhism
introduced during this time period |
|
552 |
Korea |
Buddhism was introduced to the kingdom
of Paekche |
|
594 |
Korea |
Prince Shotoku of Paekche proclaimed
buddhism the religion of the state |
|
604 |
Japan |
The Chinese calendar was adopted |
|
663 |
Korea |
Paekche was destroyed by the Chinese
loosening the grip of Japan from the mainland, who was Korea's ally |
|
670 |
|
Shaolin monks saves the emperor
of China |
|
672 |
Japan |
"The Chronicle of Japan", "Nihongi"
in Japanese was written, and the word "bugei" was used for the first time |
|
710-794 |
Japan |
The Nara Period: During this
period the Japanese people take up a primitive use of the sword |
|
720 |
Japan |
The "Nihom Shoki" first chronicle
concerning Japanese wrestling, complied |
|
780 |
|
Butokukai was founded by Emperor
Kamu |
|
794-1185 |
Japan |
The Heian Period: This time
period the emperor ruled like a god. Political classes were being implemented. Sumo wrestling and Daito-ryu jujitsu
(which heavily influenced Aikido) were developed. |
|
800 |
Japan |
Kenjutsu schools proliferate |
|
900-1200 |
Indonesia |
Silat transmitted from China |
|
900 |
Japan |
Ch'in-na transmitted from China;
becomes the basis for aiki-jutsu |
|
c. 900 |
Philippines |
Kali founded |
|
1100-1300 |
|
Shaolin heroic period |
|
1147-1170 |
Korea |
Subak reached its peak in popularity |
|
1185-1333 |
Japan |
The Kamakura Period: The Chinese
invade and introduce Zen Buddhism to Japan |
|
1185-1336 |
Japan |
Aiki-jutsu founded by Shinra Saburo
Yoshimitsu |
|
1192 |
Japan |
Bushido emerges |
|
1271-1368 |
China |
Kung-fu used by anti-government
resistance groups |
|
1274 |
|
The first mongolian attempt to invade
Japan was stopped by the Samurai |
|
1279-1368 |
China |
Yuan Dynasty |
|
1281 |
|
The second mongolian army (150,000
men) were destroyed by the typhoon "Kamikaze" after 49 days |
|
13th century |
Japan |
Zen transmitte by Chinese Buddhist
monks |
|
|
|
Chuan'fa reached its zenith during
the Ming dynasty |
|
c. 1300 |
China |
Chang San-Feng introduces soft elements
to Shao-lin kung-fu and reputedly founds t'ai-chi-ch-uan |
|
1300-1333 |
Japan |
Modern Iado, kenjutsu, were being
developed by Shigenobu Hayashizaki in a school format |
|
1300 |
China |
Empty hand styles were being codified
into five animal classifications. Some of these would later be introduced to Japan as Karate |
|
1300 |
Japan |
The Samurai caste came into existence
on the northside of Mt. Fuji |
|
1333-1568 |
Japan |
The Muromachi Period |
|
1336 |
Japan |
The Emperor Go-Daigo was forced
to flee the throne and a rival emperor sat in Kyoto. Feudalism arrived |
|
1350 |
Okinawa |
Okinawa in trading with China, Korea
and Japan introduces foreign fighting systems to the Ryu-Kyus (Okinawa Isles) |
|
|
Japan |
Nen-ryu, earliest recorded school
of swardsmanship, founded |
|
|
Japan |
Sword techniques systematized for
the first time by Choisai and Jion |
|
1368-1644 |
China |
Ming Dynasty |
|
|
China |
Ch'in-na recorded as a self-defense
system |
|
1372 |
Japan |
Takenouchi took sumai and kumiuchi
tactics combining them to make a new fighting system of jujutsu |
|
|
Okinawa |
King Satto officialy opens a dialogue
with the Emperor Ming of China thereby establishing trade between the Ryukyu Islands and mixing kung-fu with traditional Okinawan
styles |
|
1392 |
Okinawa |
36 Chinese families immigrate and
teach Chinese boxing to Okinawans |
|
1393 |
Okinawa |
Chinese officials were assigned
to Okinawa, several of these were experts in Chuan'fa |
|
c. 1400 |
Japan |
Ninjutsu emerges, flourishing for
four centuries |
|
15th century |
Malaya |
Huan Tuah purportedly founds bersilat |
|
|
Japan |
Atemi becomes popular |
|
1447 |
Japan |
Tenshin Shoden Katori Shinto-ryu
was founded; the oldest existing martial arts school |
|
1470 |
Okinawa |
King Hashi unites all of Okinawa
and bans all weapons |
|
1477 |
Okinawa |
Sho Shin bans all weapons, which
stimulates underground training in unarmed combat |
|
late 1400's |
Tibet |
Pai Ho chuan (white crane Gung Fu)
is developed in Tibet |
|
16th century |
China |
Win chun founded by Yim Wing Chun,
a Buddhist nun |
|
|
Brazil |
African slaves develop capoeira |
|
|
|
Dragon style chuan'fa, T'ang Lang
chuan'fa (praying mantis) was developed in the Shaolin temples |
|
1542 |
Japan |
The Portuguese introduced firearms
in Japan reducing the status of skill in unarmed battle |
|
1543 |
Japan |
Portuguese traders land in Japan
spreading Christianity, and the use of their guns |
|
c. 1550 |
Japan |
Jojutsu founded by Muso Gunnosuke |
|
1568-1600 |
Japan |
The Momoyama Period: though
guns have come to Japan, swardsmanship reigns supreme. Famous Duelists came to light such as Musashi Miyamoto, Gonosuke
Muso, and Tsunenaga Gasekura |
|
1570 |
Japan |
Sumo emerges |
|
1582 |
Japan |
Hideyoshi Toyotomi succeeded Nobunaga
Oda bringing relative peace and unifying Japan |
|
1600-1853 |
Japan |
The Edo (Tokugawa) Period:
shogunate Era which divided once again the classes in Japan |
|
1600-1650 |
Japan |
Jujutsu emerges |
|
17th century |
China |
Wong Long found praying manits kung-fu |
|
|
|
Hsing-I (mind form), wu shu style,
developed in the Shaolin temple at Wu-tang Mountain |
|
1600 |
Japan |
Will Adams an English seaman arrives
in Japan on board a Dutch trading ship. Ieyasu makes Adams a samurai and improves his navy |
|
1609 |
Japan |
The Satsuma clan fails to unseat
the Shogun. The clan is given Okinawa to oversee. |
|
|
Okinawa |
Japan's Satsuma clan bans the use
of weapons. Okinawan improve weaponless fighting methods and create kobu-jutsu from farm tools |
|
|
Okinawa |
With the invasion of the Satsuma
clan of Japan, weapons are outlawed throughout the islands. To-de (Chinese hands) was taken underground and split into
three distinct groups, Naha, Shuri, and tomari, although not true styles (or ryu) each had its own system of self-defense |
|
1624 |
Japan |
Spaniards were expelled from Japan
for fear of military uprising |
|
1629 |
Okinawa |
Tode and ch'uan fa synthesized into
a new art called te |
|
1644-1648 |
Japan |
China's Ch'en Yuanpin reputedly
introduces a form of jujutsu and the sai |
|
1644-1912 |
China |
Ching Dynasty |
|
1645 |
Japan |
Miyamoto Musashi one of Japan's
greatest samurai, dies |
|
1648 |
China |
Practitioners of Chuan fa retreat
to the temples in south China to avoid the Manchu |
|
|
Japan |
Chen Yuan-ping (Chin Gempin in Japanese)
fled his homeland of China to avoid the Manchus and become a naturalized Japanese |
|
1662-1723 |
China |
The Triads, a secret society which
perpetuates kung-fu emerges |
|
1674 |
|
128 monks of Shaolin assisted Emperor
K'ang His in beating down a rebellion |
|
1692 |
Okinawa |
Ko Sokun, a shipwrecked Chinese
boxer, introduces kumiai-jutsu |
|
18th century |
|
Pa Kua chuan'fa (eight trigram palm
fist way) was founded |
|
c. 1700 |
Okinawa |
Modern characteristics of Okinawan
karate begin to emerge |
|
1703-1709 |
Thailand |
Muay Thai, in its early form, reaches
its peak in popularity |
|
1710 |
Japan |
"Hagakure Bushido" classic work
on samurai ethics and conduct, written by Tsunetomo Yamamoto |
|
1730 |
China |
Ching Edict drives kung-fu underground
where it propagates secretly from generation to generation |
|
1750 |
Japan |
Budo disciplines emerge from bujutsu |
|
|
Japan |
Edo, Japan: shinai invented by Chuzo
Nakanishi. He also invents the body armor (dohontai) paving the way for Kendo |
|
1761 |
Okinawa |
China's Kusanku begins teaching
a form of kung-fu |
|
1764 |
Philippines |
Spanish authorities ban kali |
|
1776 |
|
Wing Chun Gung Fu was founded |
|
c. 1800 |
France |
Paris; savate emerges |
|
1804 |
Japan |
Russian envoy, Rezanove, arrives
in Japan, initiating modern contact with the west |
|
1815 |
Okinawa |
"Tode" Sakugawa dies; he is believed
to have been the first to combine ch'uan fa and tode to form Okinawa-te |
|
c. 1830 |
Okinawa |
Sokon Matsumura is first master
to systemize karate and to call his tyle by a name (Shuri-te) other than his own |
|
|
Italy |
Genoa; first savate club founded |
|
1831 |
|
Choy Li Fut Gung Fu was founded
by Chan Heung |
|
1832 |
France |
Paris; Charles Lecour synthesizes
English boxing and savate to create French boxing |
|
1842 |
|
Huo chuan chuan'fa (monkey style
Gung Fu) was developed |
|
1848 |
U.S. |
California; kung-fu secretly transmitted
to the U.S. by Chinese laborers imported for the Gold Rush |
|
1853-1868 |
Japan |
The Transition Period: During
this period the Shogun is forced to resign his office and the emperor is the established leader. Major earthquakes rock
Japan further enhancing trade amoung the Westerners |
|
1853 |
Japan |
Commodore Matthew C. Perry arrives
openig up more trade with Japan |
|
1868-1912 |
Japan |
The Meiji Period: The end
of Feudalism and the origin of modern Budo |
|
1868 |
Okinawa |
Gichin Funakoshi is born to Gisu
Funakoshi |
|
|
Japan |
Samurai prohibited from wearing
swords; end of samurai era |
|
1877 |
Okinawa |
The Satsuma clan rebels against
the Meiji Government that it had helped found |
|
1882 |
Japan |
Tokyo; Jigoro Kano founds judo and
established his first school, the Kodokan, at the Eisho-Ji Temple |
|
1883 |
Japan |
Morihie Uyeshiba, the founder of
Aikido, was born in Tanabe |
|
1884 |
Japan |
Judo contest conducted for the first
time, within jujutsu dojo |
|
c. 1887-1889 |
Okinawa |
The word "karate" (T'ang hand) replaces
te |
|
1887 |
Japan |
Tokyo; Technical formulation of
Kodokan judo completed |
|
1888 |
Okinawa |
Gichin Funakoshi becomes a school
teacher in the province of Shuri |
|
|
|
Chojun Miyagi, founder of gojo-ryu
karate, was born on the 25th of April |
|
1889 |
Japan |
Tokyo; Prof. Ladd of Yale University
becomes first american to study judo at the Kodokan |
|
1890 |
Japan |
Sumo, Kendo and Judo become part
of the curriculum in the Japanese school system for boys; naginata-do for girls |
|
c. 1890 |
Okinawa |
Kanryo Higshionna introduces Naha-te
and a breathing exercise called Sanchin |
|
1892 |
England |
Jujutsu introduced |
|
1893 |
|
Hironori Ohtsuka, founder of Wado-ryu
karate, was born |
|
1894 |
Japan |
Sino-Japanese war over Korea begins |
|
|
Korea |
Sino-Japanese war over Korea begins |
|
1895 |
Japan |
Kyoto; Dai Nippon Butokukai founded |
|
1896 |
Japan |
Tokyo; Jigoro Kano devises the go-kyo-no-waza,
a systemized approach for teaching judo |
|
1899 |
Japan |
Kyoto; Butokuden established |
|
|
|
Kenwa Mabuni, the founder of shito-ryu
karate, was born |
|
1900 |
China |
During the Boxer Rebellion, the
martial arts are vitually eliminated from the mainland |
