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Events on Thursday 30 January 1868 1
1868Battle of Toba-FushimiOpening battle of the Boshin WarForces loyal to the new Meiji government defeated troops of the Tokugawa shogunate near Kyoto. The battle marked the start of the Boshin War, a civil conflict that ended shogunate rule entirely by 1869. It confirmed the imperial court's military superiority over the old regime.