Taiwan became a Japanese colony in 1895, when the Qing dynasty ceded the island after its defeat in the First Sino-Japanese War by the Treaty of Shimonoseki. Japan put down armed resistance in the first years, and then built railways, ports, schools, a land survey and public health systems, partly to make Taiwan a source of rice and sugar. The population faced discrimination and colonial control, and indigenous peoples in the mountains were subject to harsh measures, including the suppression of the Wushe uprising in 1930. During the 1930s and the Second World War there was a policy of cultural assimilation. Japan's surrender in 1945 ended its rule, and the Republic of China took over the island.
Before and after
- from 1895 to 1898Cuban War of Independence
- 1895Founding of London School of Economics and Political Science
- 1895Founding of West Ham United F.C.
- from 1895 to 1958Founding of French West Africa
- from 17 April 1895 to 1 January 1945Taiwan under Japanese rule
- 17 April 1895Treaty of Shimonoseki
- 12 May 1895Birth of Jiddu Krishnamurti
- 8 July 1895Birth of Igor Tamm
- 12 July 1895Birth of Buckminster Fuller
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