Timeline Monday 15 August 1549

Events on Monday 15 August 1549 1

• 1549 St. Francis Xavier arrives in Japan Jesuit missionary lands at Kagoshima Francis Xavier landed at Kagoshima on 15 August 1549, becoming the first Christian missionary to preach in Japan. His mission, sponsored by the Society of Jesus, opened a period of Portuguese-Japanese contact and Christian conversion that lasted until Japan later restricted foreign religion.