Founder – Giuseppe Chiarini (1823-1897)
1868 November – Chiarini’s circus at Metropolitan Theatre, San Francisco
1874 January – February – Great Mikado Japanese troupe in Bombay with Chiarini’s Circus
1881 Chiarini’s circus tours India, Malaysia, Burma, Ceylon (Sri Lanka) and Singapore
1882 – Manila, Philippines, Hong Kong
1882 – Singapore and Burma, then Siam (Thailand) = a Japanese balancing act, Kichigoro and son, performing along with Emma Stoodley (1865-) and her siblings
1882 July – Chiarini’s circus tours China with some Japanese performers – Ioshimatz, Kagami Sentaro, Hashidzuna, Hayadzuma Koinosuke
1882 December – Chiarini’s Circus commenced their performances here last week, and have had no cause to complain of want of patronage. Between 3 and 4,000 people were present on the first night and the performances since have been equally well attended. Besides the usual Circus performances, there are some clever Japanese artistes, whose conjuring and balancing powers were greatly appreciated. Burma – Friend of India and Statesman
1883 Australia – Chiarini’s Circus toured Australia with Emma Stoodley, her brother Charles and sister Ida Stoodley.
In August 1883 Emma Stoodley gave birth to a daughter, Ida Matilda, in Australia. The father was Joseph Henry Hall, stage name Joe Walhalla. Ida died a few months later, in January 1884, in Sydney.
1884-5 New Zealand
1885 February to August in Australia with Emma Stoodley, Chas Stoodley, Ida. No Japanese apart from Japanese Rooster who is a rider.
Emma had another child with Joseph Hall, Claud Henry Hall, born in Tasmania in February 1885, when Chiarini’s Royal Italian Circus and Menagerie was performing there.
Chiarini’s Circus and Emma Stoodley were back in Sydney in April 1885 and then in July 1885 in Rockhampton, Queensland.
1886 January- notice in The Era that all artists selected for tour of Australia and China for Chiarini Circus via Parravicini left 30th December 1885 for Hong Kong by P&O Rohilla. Passenger lists indicate the artists may have been the Zetina family.
1886 January – in Singapore
1886 February – in Manila – Chiarini severely bitten by a horse.
1886 April – June – in China, Shanghai with the Stoodleys
1886 July – Chiarini’s advance agent Frank Wilson has made satisfactory arrangements for troupe to transfer from Shanghai to Yokohama “at an early date”
The New York Clipper reported in October 1886 that Emma Stoodley, French and Angelo, English clowns, had quit Chiarini’s circus in Yokohama and travelled to Australia.
1887 – 15th January advertisement in The Era for “first class single or double artists – gymnasts, acrobats, clowns, equestrians for Chiarini, Japan” placed by Parravicini.
1887 April – leave Japan
1887 July – Zetina family leave Chiarini in China. Arrive in England for “a well earned rest” in September.
1887 October – in Hong Kong
1887 November – Singapore
1887 December – Pakistan and India – including a troupe of Japanese from the Mikado’s own royal theatre. An exhibition of marvellous balancing.
1888 March – Madras, Calcutta – Japanese gentlemen with a wonderful little boy whose body is so supple that he can be thrown up in the air and caught on the feet of one of his elders like a football.
1888 April – Chojiro balancing on screen and umbrella . Broken ladder with Kawamura and Samckichi.
1888 June – Penang
1889 October – have gone to Honolulu. Departing from Yokohama on City of Peking, dropped an elephant in the sea, rescued by one of the Japanese troupe members.
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