Treaty of Shimonoseki
April 17, 1895
China ceded Taiwan, the Pescadores, and the Liaodong Peninsula to Japan and paid an enormous indemnity. Russia, Germany, and France immediately forced Japan to give back Liaodong - the "Triple Intervention" - and then grabbed the same real estate for themselves. Japan did not forget. The lessons of 1895 set the course for 1905.
In context
Also in 1895 (7 other events on record)
- Röntgen's X-rays · Europe · Science
- First Cinema · Europe · Technology
- Cuban War of Independence · North America · War
- Hamidian Massacres · Middle East · Disaster
- Jameson Raid · Africa · Politics
- Queen Min Assassinated · East Asia · Politics
Before and after in East Asia
Before and after in Politics
Era
Industrial Age (1801–1900), one of 513 events from that era on Saeculum.