* 1854 – Commodore Matthew Perry signs the Treaty of Kanagawa with the Japanese government, opening the ports of Shimoda and Hakodate to American trade.

* March 31 – Commodore Matthew Perry of the U. S. Navy signs the Treaty / Convention of Kanagawa with the Japanese government ( the Tokugawa Shogunate ), opening the ports of Shimoda and Hakodate to American trade ( see History of Japan ).

Hakodate was Japan's first city whose port was opened to foreign trade in 1854 as a result of Convention of Kanagawa, and used to be the most important port in northern Japan.

The port of Hakodate was surveyed by a fleet of five U. S. ships in 1854 under the conditions of the Convention of Kanagawa, as negotiated by Commodore Matthew Perry.

* Kanagawa, Kobe, Nagasaki, Niigata, and Hakodate ’ s opening to foreign trade as ports

* March 31, 1853: Convention of Kanagawa signed with the Japanese government, opening the ports of Shimoda and Hakodate to American trade

The Marine Observatories are seated in Hakodate, Maizuru, Kobe and Nagasaki.

Yaohua High School has friendly and cooperative relations with many schools abroad, such as a women's college in Hakodate, Japan, as well as high schools in Taiwan, Melbourne, Australia and Nagasaki, Japan.

Article V stipulated that trade would be performed through the harbors of Hakodate, Nagasaki, and Shimoda.

Both China Airlines and Uni Air operate charter flights from Kaohsiung to many Japanese cities including Asahigawa, Hakodate, Sapporo, Hanamaki, Obihiro, Nagasaki and Kumamoto, mostly during long vacations.

in Japan are chiefly located in Tokyo and at the former treaty ports of Nagasaki, Kobe, Yokohama, and Hakodate.

The two trunk lines of the Tōhoku region, the Tōhoku Main Line ( now Aoimori Railway ) and the Ōu Main Line, terminated at Aomori Station and were continued to Hakodate by the Seikan Ferry.

After his death, Masamichi's son, Kono Suemichi, and family were driven out of Hakodate into nearby Kameda during Ainu rebellion in 1512 and little history was recorded for the area during the next 100 years.

Hakodate flourished during the Hoei period ( 1704 – 11 ) and many new temples were founded in the area.

Government forces defeated the secessionists in the Battle of Hakodate in 1869 and the city and fort were surrendered to emperor.

Many prisoners of war were interned in Hakodate and historians record a total of 10 camps.

By the time of Takuro and Teru's graduation, Glay were enjoying some popularity in their hometown of Hakodate and were playing full live houses.

All members were born in Hakodate, Hokkaidō except Hisashi, who was born in Hirosaki, Aomori before moving to Hakodate in elementary school.

The city is overlooked by Mount Hakodate, a lumpy, forested mountain whose summit can be reached by hiking trail, cable car, or car.

There are five JR Hokkaido stations in Muroran, starting from Higashi Muroran and ending in downtown Muroran, which can be used to access both Hakodate to the South West, and Sapporo to the North East.

When Shinkansen trains can traverse the tunnel to Hakodate ( scheduled for 2015 ), the journey time will be cut to 50 minutes.

The treaty opened the Japanese ports of Shimoda and Hakodate to United States trade and guaranteed the safety of shipwrecked U. S. sailors ; however, the treaty did not create a basis for establishing a permanent residence in these locations.

Hakodate port partially opened to foreign ships for provisioning in the following year and then completely to foreign trade on 2 June 1859 as one of five Japanese open ports designated in the 1858 Treaty of Amity and Commerce signed with the U. S.

In 1892, the Port of Muroran was opened for the wooden bridge construction at Kaigan ( former Tokikaramoi ); at the same time, the main road began construction from Hakodate to Sapporo as the first step of Hokkaido Colonization Plan.

Hakodate airport opened in 1961 and is located by the seas around from the city centre.

Also in 2003, an art gallery dedicated to Glay was opened in their hometown, Hakodate.

British merchant, naturalist and spy, Thomas Blakiston, took up residence in Hakodate in the summer of 1861 to establish a saw milling business and in doing so acquainted the city with western culture.

In an effort to find the Russian fleet in the Pacific Ocean during the Crimean war, a French-British naval force reached the port of Hakodate, open to British ships as a result of the Friendship Treaty of 1854, and sailed further North, seizing the Russian-American Company's possessions on the island of Urup in the Kuril archipelago.

The same year, in an effort to find the Russian fleet in the Pacific Ocean during the Crimean War, a French-British naval force reached the port of Hakodate ( open to British ships as a result of the Anglo-Japanese Friendship Treaty of 1854 ), and sailing further north, landed on Urup, taking official possession of the island as " l ' Isle de l ' Alliance " and nominating a local Aleut inhabitant as provisional governor.

In an effort to find the Russian fleet in the Pacific Ocean during the Crimean war, a French-British naval force reaches the port of Hakodate, open to British ships as a result of the Anglo-Japanese Friendship Treaty of 1854, and sails further North, seizing the Russian-American Company's possessions on the island of Urup in the Kuril archipelago.

* 1976 – Cold War: Soviet air force pilot Lt. Viktor Belenko lands a MiG-25 jet fighter at Hakodate on the island of Hokkaidō in Japan and requests political asylum in the United States.

** Cold War: Soviet Air Force pilot Lt. Viktor Belenko lands a MiG-25 jet fighter at Hakodate, on the island of Hokkaidō in Japan, and requests political asylum in the United States.

* July 2 – Ivan Kasatkin lands on Hakodate and introduces the Eastern Orthodox Church into Japan.

The town's fortunes received a further boost in 1741 when the Matsumae clan, which had been granted nearby areas on the Oshima Peninsula as a march fief, moved its Kameda magistracy to Masamichi's house in Hakodate.

Hakodate was awarded city status on August 1, 1922.

The tour kicked off 3 July at Hakodate Shimin Kaikan and finished at Nagisa-en on 21 September, which was ironically the day of their debut, having a total of 23 shows all together.

His name became known worldwide on September 6, 1976, when he successfully defected to the West, flying his Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25 " Foxbat " jet fighter to Hakodate, Japan.

Momus has also been a guest instructor on sound-art projects with students first at Future University in Hakodate, Hokkaidō, Japan during the early months of 2005, and then again in September at Fabrica, the Benetton Group " research centre " near Venice, Italy.

; Toya Maru disaster: A Seikan ferryboat sank off Hakodate killing 1, 155 in a typhoon storm on September 26, 1954.

It is located on the outskirts of Hakodate city close to Hakodate Airport.

Henry Seebohm named this bird after the English naturalist Thomas Blakiston, who collected the original specimen in Hakodate on Hokkaidō, Japan in 1883.

** Niyama Station on Hakodate Main Line ( see # Wartime type switchback )

Niki Station on the Hakodate Main Line is located near the town hall.

Built by the Tokugawa shogunate in 1857-1866, Goryōkaku sits in the center of the port of Hakodate, on the island of Hokkaidō.

* John Milne: The Prehistoric Remains of Japan, Notes on Stone Implements from Otaru and Hakodate, 1879 ()

The first stop on Hokkaidō is at Hakodate, with arrival in Sapporo around five hours later.

The voyage included a trip around the Tōhoku region, embarking on a lighthouse boat in Aomori, and a brief stop in Hakodate before returning to Yokohama on July 20 of that year.

In January 2006 it was headquartered on the grounds of Hakodate Airport in Hakodate, Hokkaido.