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William Adams Timeline (((((William Adams and the other survivors were…

- - - - In April 1600, the Dutch ships were scattered by storms. And in Williams ship, the crew were sick and dying. They were anchored off the island of Kyushu, in southern Japan. They were the first Northern European ship to reach Japan.
      - 1600
      - 1600
        
        William Adams and the other survivors were taken to Ōsaka, (Second largest urban city). Where Tokugawa Ieyasu interrogated mainly Adams about various religious, political and technological topics.
        
        Tokugawa Ieyasu was so impressed by his knowledge, and most especially of ships and shipbuilding, that Ieyasu made William one of his close associates.
        
        William Had been awarded an estate at Miura, on the Miura Peninsula south of Edo (now Tokyo!). Even though he had been given many honours, William still expressed desires to go back to England (this was where he had family and a wife, whom he missed. But he was refused permission to go back. He thus permanently settled in Japan, married a Japanese woman, and eventually came to be known by the name Anjin.
        
        In 1613, Adams helped to build an English post trading factory. This was for the East India Company. During 1614 and 1619, he was allowed to take some overseas travels, but only as far as Southern East Asia.
        
        1613
        
        1616
        
        1620
        
        By 1620, William was ill, and while, he was still in Hirado, he died, and was buried there. The English Post Trading Factory was shut down soon after his death.
        
        However, in 1616, Tokugawa Ieyasu died. The English traders were reduced, and eventually, only the Dutch were the only Europeans that were allowed to trade with Japan.