Ito Sukeyuki and the Combined Fleet

Ito Sukeyuki

As the first Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet, Satsuma native Ito Sukeyuki led the Imperial Japanese Navy to a crucial triumph over the Qing Beiyang Fleet during the Yellow Sea battle in the First Sino-Japanese War. His naval leadership secured vital maritime supremacy and accelerated Japan's emergence as a formidable maritime power.

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1843	Birth of Ito Sukeyuki (Period: June 9, 1843 (Tempo 14, May 12). Note that different sources, such as English Wikipedia, record it as May 20, 1843., Location: Kagoshima City, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan (formerly Kagoshima Castle Town, Satsuma Province).)
1860	Learning Navigation at the Kobe Naval Training Center (Sukeyuki Ito, Age: 16 years old, Period: Late Edo Period, 1860s, Location: Kobe City, Hyogo Prefecture)
1868	Burning of the Satsuma Domain Residence in Edo (Age: 24 years old, Period: 1868, Early Stage of the Boshin War, Location: Satsuma Domain Residence in Edo (Present-day Tokyo))
1870	Enlistment in the Meiji Government Navy (Sukeyuki Ito, Age: 26 years old, Period: Post-Meiji Restoration, Early 1870s, Location: Naval Facilities and Vessels Within Japan)
1885	Management of Yokosuka Naval Arsenal (Age: 41 years old, Period: 1885, Location: Yokosuka City, Kanagawa Prefecture)
1893	Appointment as Commander-in-Chief of the Standing Fleet (Sukeyuki Ito, Age: 49 years old, Period: May 20, 1893, Location: Fleet Headquarters of the Imperial Japanese Navy)
1894	First Sino-Japanese War (Age: 51 years old, Period: 1894–1895, Location: Korean Peninsula, Yellow Sea, Liaodong Peninsula, Shandong Peninsula, Taiwan, etc.) Command of the Combined Fleet in the Battle of the Yalu River (Sukeyuki Ito, Age: 51 years old, Period: September 17, 1894, Location: Off the Estuary of the Yalu River, Yellow Sea)
1895	Battle of Weihaiwei and Surrender of the Qing Fleet (Age: 51 years old, Period: January – February 1895, Location: Weihaiwei, Shandong Peninsula, China) Appointment as Chief of the Naval General Staff (Sukeyuki Ito, Age: 51 years old, Period: May 11, 1895, Location: Naval General Staff in Tokyo)
1898	Elevation to Viscount (Age: 55 years old, Period: August 5, 1898, Location: Japan)
1907	Elevation to Count (Age: 63 years old, Period: 1907, Location: Japan)
1914	Death of Ito Sukeyuki (Age: 70 years old, Period: January 16, 1914 (Taisho 3). Died in Tokyo.) Death and Burial (Age: 70 years old, Period: January 2, 1927, Location: Death in Tel Aviv, burial at Trumpeldor Cemetery in the same city)
Unknown	Marriage (Sukeyuki Ito, Unidentifiable from Reliable Sources, Period: Unknown, Location: Unknown)

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The Qing Dynasty Court	Qianlong Emperor Jiaqing Emperor Daoguang Emperor Xianfeng Emperor Tongzhi Emperor Guangxu Emperor Xuantong Emperor Puyi Empress Dowager Cixi Prince Gong Prince Chun Zaifeng
First Sino-Japanese War	Yamagata Aritomo Oyama Iwao Togo Heihachiro Nogi Maresuke Kodama Gentaro Ito Sukeyuki Kabayama Sukenori Komura Jutaro Katsura Taro Terauchi Masatake Emperor Meiji

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