Date | Action | Place | Related Actors |
1861=09=26 | Birth | Kumamoto 熊本(Japan) | Shimomura Benji |
1873=00=00 to 1876-06-01 | Enters the Kumamoto Yōgakko 熊本洋学校 where he studies under Captain Leroy Janes | Kumamoto 京都 (Japan) | Janes , Captain Leroy Lansing |
1873=00=00 to 1876-06-01 | Enters where he studies under Captain Leroy Janes Kumamoto Yōgakko 熊本洋学校 | Kumamoto 熊本 (Japan) | Kumamoto School of Western Learning, Kumamoto, Kagoshima, Japan 熊本洋学校 |
1876=00=00 | Moves to Kyoto and enters Dōshisha English School 同志社英学校 | Kyoto 京都 (Japan) | |
1876=10=05 to 1879-06-30 | | Kyoto 京都 (Japan) | Dōshisha University Dôshisha English School 同志社大学 (同志社英学校) |
1879-06-30 | Graduates Dōshisha English School 同志社英学校 | Kyoto 京都 (Japan) | Dōshisha University Dôshisha English School 同志社大学 (同志社英学校) |
1880=06=30 to 1880=06=30 | Graduates from Worcester Technical Institute | Worcester, Mass. (USA) | Worcester Technical Insitute |
1885-07-01 to 1885<09<01 | Leaves Kyoto for Worcester, Massachesetts, US for study at Worcester Technical Institute Kyoto | Kyoto 京都 (Japan) | |
1885=09=01 to 1888=06=30 | Arrives in Worcester, Massachusetts, US to study at the Worcester Technical Institute | Worcester, Mass. (USA) | Worcester Technical Institute, Massachussetts, USA |
1886=07=01 to 1937=10=21 | Shimomura was a founding member | | Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Mission (SVM) |
1895=01=31 | Birth of Shimomura Akira 下村明, first child of Shimomura Kôtaro 下村孝太郎 | Kyoto 京都 (Japan) | Shimomura Kotaro 下村孝太郎 |
1895=05=18 | Resigns from the position of the teacher at Dôshisha and the head of Harris School of Schience at Dôshisha | Kyoto 京都 (Japan) | |
1897=07=06 to 1897=07=06 | Cecil Walton of Hardy Patent Pick - Sheffield writes to Shimomura Kôtaro 下村孝太郎 advising against the grinding of coal before washing it. | Sheffield (United Kingdom) | Shimomura Kôtaro 下村孝太郎 |
1897=08=13 | Birth of Simomura Kyôko, second child of Shimomura Kôtaro 下村孝太郎 | Kyoto 京都 (Japan) | Shimomura Kōtaro 下村孝太郎 |
1898=06=15 to 1898=06=15 | Shimomura Kôtaro explains to the Cecil Walton of Hardy Patent Pick - Sheffield that he wants to grind coal before washing; does not want to use their elevators in the washing plant but rather use human labor | Osaka 大阪 (Japan) | Cecil Walton (Hardy Patent Pick) |
1898=09=01 to 1898=09=01 | Cecil Walton of Hardy Patent Pick - Sheffield writes to Shimomura Kôtarou 下村孝太郎 declaring griding before washing as suicidal and threatening not to send the washing and griding plant if Shimomura insists on using it in invers order. | Sheffield (United Kingdom) | Shimomura Kôtaro 下村孝太郎 |
1898=09=06 to 1898=09=06 | Cecil Walton of Hardy Patent Pick - Sheffield writes to Shimomura Kôtarou 下村孝太郎 repeats the inadvisability of griding before washing and suggests to send the plans laid out as they think best before sending the plant. | Sheffield (United Kingdom) | Shimomura Kôtaro 下村孝太郎 |
1899=04=28 | Birth of Shimomura Kôji 下村孝次, third child of Shimomura Kôtaro 下村孝太郎 | Kyoto 京都 (Japan) | Shimomura Kôtaro 下村孝太郎 |
1905=00=00 to 1907=03=00 | Nakamura comissioned Shimomura to build Semet-Solvay coke ovens at Yawata Steel Plant 八幡製鉄所 | Kitakyushu 北九州 (Japan) | Shimomura Kotaro 下村孝太郎 |
1906=09=00 to 1909=00=00 | Kuroad Taizô, fresh out of university arrives at Imperial Yawata Steel works at the onset of the Solvay coking plant totaling 150 ovens lead by Shimomura Kôtaro | Kitakyûshi 北九州 (Japan) | Kuroda Taizô 黒田泰造 |
1906=11=00 to 1909=00=00 | Shimomura Kôtaro leads the building of six batteries of 25 ovens each at ImperialYawata Steel Works 八幡製鉄所 | Kitakyushu 北九州 (Japan) | ImperialYawata Steel Works 八幡製鉄所 |
1914=08=14 | In the course of an experiment related to dye stuffs production, an explosion occures in Shimomura private laboratory in Kyoto, he suffers burns to face and hands and loses his eyesight | Kyoto 京都 (Japan) | |
1915=00=00 | Tract written in English, contianing technical drawings from his personal notes, drafted after the laboratory accident in 1914. | Kyoto 京都 (Japan) | Rise and Development of Semt-Solvay Coke Ovens |
1931=00=00 | The autobiography of Shimomura Kôtaro published in Kyoto in 1931 | Kyoto 京都 (Japan) | Waga shûkyô kan 和が宗教観 |
1938=00=00 | Collection of speeches given at the first year anniversary of Shimomura Kôtaro's death. | Kyoto 京都 (Japan) | Shimomura Kōtaro 下村孝太郎 |