Individual itineraries and the circulation of scientific and technical knowledge in East Asia (16th–20th centuries)

Moves to Kyoto and enters Dōshisha English School 同志社英学校

Graduates Dōshisha English School 同志社英学校

Leaves Kyoto for Worcester, Massachesetts, US for study at Worcester Technical Institute Kyoto

Fuaki Eigō 深井英五 enrolled to Dōshisha on a scholarship arranged by Niijima with the financial support of a wife of an American missionary.

Fukai Eigō 深井英五 graduated from Dōshisha

Birth of Shimomura Akira 下村明, first child of Shimomura Kôtaro 下村孝太郎

Resigns from the position of the teacher at Dôshisha and the head of Harris School of Schience at Dôshisha

Birth of Simomura Kyôko, second child of Shimomura Kôtaro 下村孝太郎

Birth of Shimomura Kôji 下村孝次、third child of Shimomura Kôtaro

Birth of Shimomura Kôji 下村孝次, third child of Shimomura Kôtaro 下村孝太郎

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

Tract written in English, contianing technical drawings from his personal notes, drafted after the laboratory accident in 1914.

The autobiography of Shimomura Kôtaro published in Kyoto in 1931

Collection of speeches given at the first year anniversary of Shimomura Kôtaro's death.