This is a brief chronology I made of what I could find about how jiu jitsu and judo came to America, England and Brazil. (Not authoratative by any means. Just find it interesting.)
Players:
Jigoro Kano (founder of Kodokan Judo in Tokyo)
Yoshiaki Yamashita
Tomita Tsunejiro
Mitsuyo Maeda
Soshihiro Satake
Yataro Handa (Founder of Handa dojo in Osaka, Japan)
Mataemon Tanabe
Yukio Tani
Sadakazu Uyenishi
Taro Miyake
1854 Matthew Perry sailed war ships into Tokyo Harbor. He played a leading role in the opening of Japan to the West with the Convention of Kanagawa in 1854.
1860 Birth of Jigoro Kano
(Very little seems to be known about life and death of Yataro Handa)
1869 Birth of Mataemon Tanabe
1879 U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant visits Japan, watches martial arts exhibition
1881 Birth of Yukio Tani
1882 Kano starts Kodokan Judo
1889 Kano gives public talk with several Americans present
1889 A Professor Ladd from Yale University trains in Kodokan Judo for 10 years
1891 Jujitsuka Mataemon Tanabe beats Kodokan judoka Takisaburo Tobari in challenge match winning by juji jime
1892-1900 Tanabe wins challenge matches against Kodokan Judo. Tanabe is then reported to have been solicited by Kano to teach his ground grappling for use by the Kodokan. Tanabe is said to never officially join the Kodokan.
1895 Maeda joins Kodokan Judo
1895- 1898 E.W. Barton Wright studies ju jitsu and Kodokan judo in Tokyo
1897-1902 American businessman Sam Hill visits Japan several times
1897 Reported opening of Handa dojo in Osaka under Yutaro Handa
1897-1900 (?) Yukio Tani studies at Handa dojo. Tani’s father and grandfather are said to be friends with Mataemon Tanabe.
1898 Barton Wright returns to England
1900 Barton Wright starts Bartitsu school
1900 Barton Wright brings Yukio Tani, his brother Kaneo and a fellow jujutsuka Seizo Yamamoto travelled to London. Barton Wright is reported to have asked Kano for instructors and Kano recommended the jujitsukas.
1900 Barton Wright brings Sadakazu Uyenishi to London to join Tani. Uyenishi is reported to have trained at Handa dojo.
1900 Tani competes in challenge matches
1902 Bartitsu school closes
1903 Uyenishi opens his School of Japanese Self Defense in London
1903 Sam Hill invites Kodokan judoka Yoshiaki Yamashita (Four Guardians of Kokokan Judo) to Seattle to teach his son Judo
1904 Yamashita demonstrates Judo to President Teddy Roosevelt in Washington D.C.
1904 Taro Miyake a student of Mataemon Tanabe at Handa dojo gets fired from his police job for getting in fight and moves to London
1904 Tani and Miyake open School of Ju Jitsu in London
1903-4 Japanese League asks Kano to send more Judoka to America
1904 Kodokan judoka Tsunejiro Tomita (Four Guardians of Kodokan Judo -- Kano’s first student) -- along with Mitsuyo Maeda and Soshihiro Satake -- move to New York City
1905 Tomita and Maeda open judo club in NYC
1904(5)-7 Maeda and Satake compete in mixed style challenge matches in America
1905 Yamashita is hired as judo coach at U.S. Naval Academy
1905 Uyenishi writes Textbook of Ju Jitsu
1906 Tani and Miyake write Game of Ju Jitsu
1907 Maeda leaves America for London (reportedly because of racism)
1907 Maeda performs demonstration with Tani in London
1908 Maeda tours Europe with Miyake and Uyenishi competing in challenge matches
1909-1914 Maeda and Satake travel to Cuba, Mexico, Latin America competing in challenge matches
1908 (?) Uyenishi dies
1909 Kodokan judoka Geo Omori opens first judo school in Brazil
1914 Maeda goes to Brazil
1914 Miyake moves to Seattle
1921 Maeda opens academy in Brazil
1935 Miyake dies (in America?)
1935 Yamashita dies
1937 Tomita dies
1938 Kano dies at sea while traveling on ocean liner
1938 Omori dies in Brazil
1941 Maeda dies in Brazil
1942 Tanabe dies in Osaka
1950 Tani dies in England
1951 Edward Barton-Wright dies in England
(Date of death of Satake is unknown)