| 1560 | Battle of Okehazama. Oda Nobunaga defeats and kills Imagawa Yoshimoto. |
| 1571 | Oda Nobunaga burns Enryakuji. |
| 1572 | Takeda Shingen defeats Tokugawa Ieyasu at the battle of Mikata-ga-hara. |
| 1575 | 5 April: Okudaira Sadamasa appointed keeper of Nagashino. |
| 29 May: Takeda Katsuyori visits the shrine of Shingen. | |
| 30 May: The Takeda army leaves Kofu. | |
| 13 June: Takeda Katsuyori burns Nirengi and Ushikubo and attacks Yoshida. | |
| 14 June: Katsuyori leaves Yoshida. | |
| 16 June: Takeda Katsuyori arrives at Nagashino. | |
| 17-21 June: Four days of continual attacks on the castle. | |
| 22 June: Nagashino garrison loses the storehouse. The Takeda begin a blockade. | |
| Conference of Oda and Tokugawa at Okazaki. | |
| 25 June: Oda and Tokugawa armies leave Okazaki. | |
| 26 June: Oda and Tokugawa armies reach Noda. | |
| 27 June: Fences built, both armies prepare. | |
| 28 June: Battle of Nagashino. | |
| 1582 | Takeda Katsuori finally defeated, extinction of the Takeda family. Murder of Oda Nobunaga by one of his generals, he is succeeded by Toyotomi Hideyoshi. |
| 1582 | Battle of Komaki-Nagakute. Hideyoshi and Ieyasu fight to a standstill. Ieyasu later allies himself with Hideyoshi |
| 1590 | Hideyoshi virtually completes subjugation of Japan. |
| 1598 | Death of Hideyoshi. |
| 1600 | Battle of Sekigahara. |
| 1603 | Tokugawa Ieyasu becomes Shogun. |