Zenpachi Fujikura begins manufacturing silk and cotton insulated winding wires.	1885	Department of Communication was established.
Tomekichi Fujikura travels to USA.	1886	Tokyo Dento Kaisha (Dento Co.) was established.
Zenpachi Fujikura imports five large braiding machines from the USA.	1887	Tokyo Dento Kaisha (Dento Co.) supplies electricity to light Rokumei-kan (launch of business) Hard-drawn copper wire #12 employed for a telegraph line between Tokyo and Atami. Establishment of Osaka Dento Kaisha (Osaka lamp line company).
Leasing of a former silk mill in the Shinjuku Imperial estate, Tokyo and relocation of the plant to this site (Shinjuku Plant) Commence manufacturing Tokyo wires, paraffin wires and lamp cords. Research in rubber-insulated wires begins.	1888	Establishment of Denki Gakkai (Electric Association).
	1889	Telephone line opens between Tokyo and Atami. Constitution of the Empire of Japan is promulgated. Entire Tokaido rail line is completed.

Laying the Foundation of FUJIKURA

Tomekichi Fujikura returns from the USA Relocation of plant to 900, Sendagaya, Tokyo. (Sendagaya Plant 1)	1890	Japanese engineers lay a submarine telegraph cable across the Tsugaru Straints.
Launch of manufacture of first rubber-insulated wires in Japan.	1893
Relocation of plant to 922, Sendagaya. (Sendagaya Plant 2) Kenzo Okada visits the USA to learn about rubber-insulated wire technology.	1896	Telegraphy Law (Wired) enacted.
	1900	Public telephones installed at Ueno and Shinbashi stations.
Founder, Zenpachi Fujikura passes away (59) Reorganization as an unlimited partnership named Fujikura Electric Wire & Rubber Co., Ltd. was founded. Representative : Tomekichi Matsumoto Capital : 25,000 yen	1901
Appointment of Fujikura plant as a Japan's first rubber-insulation factory by the Department of Communication. Total destruction of the Sendagaya plant due to a typhoon (Restored in 3 months later.)	1903
Establishment of Fujikura Electric Wire Corporation. Representative : Tomekichi Fujikura Capital : 500,000 yen Establishment of an unlimited partnership named Fujikura Waterproof Fabric Corporation (presently Fujikura Composites Inc.)	1910
Launch of copper refining, rolling and wiring operations. No.3 plant devastated by a fire.	1916
Acquisition of the patent for multi-layered rubber-insulated wires. Publishing of "Practical Electric Wire Manual"	1918
Established "Fujikura Gakuen", a special facility for mentally-challenged children, on Oshima island.	1919
Acquisition of premises (72,600 m2) in Fukagawa, Heikyu-cho. Start of construction of a new plant	1920	Establishment of the League of Nations.
Complete of Fukagawa copper refining plant.	1921	Washington Conference

Post-Earthquake Recovery and Technological Advances

Completion of the Fukagawa head office and plant. Establishment of the Fujikura baseball club. Total destruction of the Fukagawa head office and plant by fire in the aftermath of the Great Kanto Earthquake.	1923	Great Kanto Earthquake
Reconstruction of Fukagawa plant.	1924
Delivery of 1200 mm twisted pair cables made of domestically manufactured insulated paper to the Department of Communication. Fukagawa plant became a designated plant of the Ministry of Railway.	1925
Completion of the head office annex building.	1929	World economic depression
Launch manufacturing of unit-type city cables. Launch manufacturing of OF cables. Completion of the research laboratory	1930
Launch manufacturing of "Fujikousen", Japan's first electric wire for aircraft.	1931
Official registration of the corporate logo. Establishment of Suzuki Kosakusho (Presently Suzuki Giken Co.,Ltd.)	1933
Acquisition of patent for the Fujikura-type high-frequency coaxial cable. Launch "Fujikura Digest" (predecessor to "Fujikura Technical Journal").	1935
First President Tomekichi Matsumoto passes away (71) Shinta Matsumoto becomes the 2nd President. Victory at the 12th National Inter-City Baseball Tournament. Establishment of Fujikura Chemical Industries (presently Fujikura Kasei Co.,Ltd.)	1938
Victory at 13th National Inter-City Baseball Tournament. Establishment of Fujikura Aircraft Industry (presently Fujikura Parachute Co.,Ltd.)	1939
Launch of aluminum wire manufacturing.	1941	War of the Pacific begins.
Kenzo Okada passes away (68). Launch manufacturing of Fujikura-type 100 kW coaxial cables.	1943
Opening of Fuji plant. Established Yonezawa Suehiro Denran Kogyo Cable Engineering (presently Yonezawa Electric Wire Company Ltd.)	1944

Post-war Recovery & Era of High Growth

Complete destruction of Fukagawa plant in Tokyo Air Raid. Start reconstruction of Fukagawa plant.	1945	Japan accepts the Potsdam Declaration
Goro Ishibashi becomes the 3rd president.	1948
Delivery of Japan's first 24-core TV camera cables to NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation.) First-time delivery of ACSR to the government-affiliated company, Nihon Hassoden. Launched plastic electric wire manufacturing. Flooding of the Fukagawa plant by Typhoon KITTY.	1949
	1953	NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) launches TV broadcasting services.
Completion of the Numazu plant. Launch of "Fujikura Electric Wires News" (in-house magazine). Second place at the 25th National Inter-City Baseball Tournaments. Completion of an ultra high-pressure testing laboratory.	1954
Launch of wiring harness manufacturing.	1957
First-time delivery of 154 kV OF cables to Tokyo Electric Power Co., Inc. Established Numazuyohdoi Co., Ltd. Establishment of Tama Fujikura Gakuen.	1958
Kamon Hyodo becomes the 4th president.	1961
Installation of Japan's first 66 kV PFO cables at the Sakura plant (Sakura-shi, Chiba). Development of eqipment for the manufacture of SZ-twisted telecommunications cable.	1964	Tokaido Shinkansen begin service. Tokyo Olympics.
Completion of the Sakura plant (Sakura-shi, Chiba) Hisaharu Kuriyama becomes the 5th president. Launch manufacturing of printed circuits using a die stamp method.	1965
Relocation of head office to the Kasumigaseki Bldg.	1968
Delivery of 275 kV OF cables to Tokyo Electric Power Co., Inc.	1969	Opening of the Tomei Expressway
Completion of the Suzuka plant (Suzuki-shi,Mie)	1970	Osaka Expo

Jiro Kino becomes the 6th president. Publishing of a corporate history booklet entitled "88-year History"	1973	First oil crisis
Begin inspection of optical fiber base materials manufactured by the CVD method. Development of 275 kV CV cables. Establishment of Kyoei High OPT Co.,Ltd.	1974	Electric wire manufacturing business was appointed as a depressed industry.
Joint optical fiber research agreement signed by Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Public Corporation, Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd., Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd. and Fujikura. Development of Japan's first flat-type elevator cables.	1975	Sanyo Shinkansen begins service.
Development of world's first long-wavelength/ultralow loss optical fiber in cooperation with Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Public Corporation. Delivery of 500 kV OF cables to Sodegaura power station of Tokyo Electric Power Co., Inc. Katsuo Kawamura becomes the 7th president.	1976
Development of a unit-type optical fiber integrated with high tensile strength wire. Successful manufacture of Japan's first practical 154 kV CV cables. Relocation of the head office to the Fujikura Bldg. in Gotanda.	1977
Launch manufacture of ribbon-type cables and flat cables. Launch manufacture of FPCs for electronic devices. World's first transmission loss of only 0.27 dB/km achieved with a low-loss single-mode optical fiber.	1979	The second oil crisis occurred.
Development of metal SP cables. Development of single-mode optical fusion splicers.	1980	Establishment of New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization.
Development of heat pipes for snow melting. Development of Japan's first OPGWs (Optical Fiber Composite Overhead Ground Wire).	1981
Development of semiconductor pressure sensors. Delivery of 275 kV OF cables. Seiichi Kagaya became the 8th president. Completion of the Sakura Optical plant. Launch of membrane switch manufacturing.	1982	All sections of the Chuo Expressway completedand open to service. Tohoku and Joetsu Shinkansen begin services.
Delivery of optical fiber for the Pan-Japan (longitudinal) optical fiber transmission line. Launch of F heater manufacturing.	1983	Chugoku expressway was fully opened
Establishment of Fujikura (Thailand) Ltd.	1984
100th anniversary of Fujikura's founding Development of the world's first core alignment fusion splicer. Establishment of a new company logo.	1985	Completion of Pan-Japan (longitudinal) optical Fiber transmission line were installed longitudinally across Japan. Tsukuba Science Expo.
Successful fabrication of oxide superconducting wires. Establishment of Fujikura Federal Cables Sdn. Bhd. Compilation of the corporate history in a book "Fujikura 100-nen no Ayumi" (Tracing the Fujikura Century).	1987	Privatization and division of Japan National Railway.
Establishment of PCTT Ltd., DDK (Thailand) Ltd. and Fujikura Europe Ltd. Development of world's first CS trolley wires. Development of world's first multi optical fiber fusion splicers.	1988
Establishment of Tohoku Fujikura Ltd., Aomori Fujikura, Fujikura Engineering (Thailand) Ltd. and LTEC Ltd. Commence delivery of fiber monitoring systems (Suzuki Giken Co., Ltd.)	1989	Introduction of consumption tax in Japan.
Development of EDFA (erbium-doped optical fiber amplifier). Establishment of Syscom Ltd. Completion of New Fukagawa Head Office Building.	1990

Age of Globalization and New Technologies

Completion of optics system development center. Establishment of Fujikura Precision Ltd. and Fujikura Zhuhai Ltd. Completion of Futtsu Plant (Futtsu-shi, Chiba)	1991
The corporate name changed to Fujikura Ltd. Shigenobu Tanaka becomes the 9th president.	1992	Shinkansen "Nozomi" enters services.
Completion of the Tokyo R&D center. Delivery of 500 kV CV cables and Hokkaido-Honshu optical fiber intergrated submarine cables.	1993
Establishment of Fujikura (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd. Development of super low loss multi-fiber optical connectors.	1995	The Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake.
Development of super low loss multi-fiber optical connectors.	1996
Delivery of World's largest 500 kV DC OF submarine cables to Kansai Electric Power Co., Inc. and J Power (Electric Power Development Co., td.)	1998	Nagano Winter Olympics.
Akira Tsujikawa becomes the 10th president. Development of a new signal cable for the "Shinkansen" bullet train. Delivery of 500 kV DC CV cables to Tokyo Electric Power Co.,Inc. for the Shin Keiyo oyosu line (a power line between two power stations in Chiba and Tokyo).	1999
Completion of a major urban redevelopment project on the site of the previous Fukagawa Plant, and opening of the "Fukagawa Gatharia" complex.	2000
Establishment of Fujikura (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd. Commercialization and marketing of FTTH optical fiber products. Development of a seat sensor for automobiles.	2001
Live wire insulation diagnostic device for high-voltage CV cables wins Shibusawa Award. Delivery of cables for a deep-earth exploration vessel. Launch of wafer-level package manufacturing.	2002	2002 FIFA World Cup Koria/Japan
Development of dye-sensitized solar cells. Establishment of Fujikura (Shanghai) Trading Co., Ltd. to oversea Chinese market operations.	2003
Delivery of cables for ultra-high speed elevators.	2004
120th anniversary. Kazuhiko Ohashi becomes the 11th president. Adoption of new management principles: "MVCV (Mission, Vision, Core Value)" Establishment of VISCAS Corporation , a joint venture company in high voltage business with The Furukawa Electric Co., Ltd. Establishment of Fujikura Dia Cable Ltd. in a joint venture with Mitsubishi Cable Industries Ltd. Establishment of America Fujikura Ltd.	2005
Establishment of America Fujikura Ltd. Acquisition of a 60% stake in Spain ACE Automotive Group.	2006
Renovation of head office showroom Shatters the critical current record with an yttrium-based oxide superconducting wire. Acquisition of Fibertech Co., Ltd.	2007	The Chūetsu Offshore Earthquake
Spanish ACE company becomes a wholly owned subsidiary of Fujikura	2008
Yoichi Nagahama becomes the 12th president.	2009
Establishment of Fujikura Electronic (Thailand) Ltd. by unifying seven Thai group companies Acquisition of OPTOENERGY Inc. Completion of ‘Fukagawa Gatharia’ (Fukagawa re-development project) Open "Millennium Woods", Fujikura Bio-Garden	2010	Entire Tohoku Shinkansen is opened (Tokyo-Shin Aomori)
Fujikura Group's manufacturing bases were damaged by flood in Thailand	2011	Great East Japan Earthquake Flood in Thailand
The VAD Method is Recognized as a Prestigious IEEE Milestone for the Excellent Mass Production of High-quality Optical Fiber	2015
Masahiko Ito becomes the 13th president. The Fujikura group's declaration of reconstruction from floods in Thailand Integration of manufacturing and sales of industrial wire & cable and related products to Fujikura Dia Cable Ltd. Establishment of Fujikura Group Environment Long-term Vision 2050 Power distribution line and overhead power  transmission  line  business were transferred from VISCAS	2016	Kumamoto Earthquake G7 Ise-Shima Summit
Registration for the Edo-Midori Green Area Registration (excellent green space) in Tokyo	2017
Opening of the Innovation Hub "BRIDGE"	2018