First Sino-Japanese War
A modernised Japan defeats the Qing Empire
The war began over control of Korea, where the Donghak peasant rebellion had broken out. Japan's army and navy, rebuilt on Western lines, routed Qing forces at Pyongyang and the Qing fleet off the Yalu. By the Treaty of Shimonoseki in 1895 China recognised Korea's independence, ceded Taiwan to Japan and paid a huge indemnity. The balance of power in Asia was overturned.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Whole world
- 1914–1918 World War I — 20 years later
- 1918–1920 Spanish flu pandemic — 24 years later
Europe
- 1886 Benz's first automobile — 8 years earlier
- 1889 Eiffel Tower — 5 years earlier
- 1895 Discovery of X-rays — 1 year later
- 1905 Einstein's miracle year and relativity — 11 years later
- 1919 Treaty of Versailles — 25 years later
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1895 Popov's radio receiver — 1 year later
- 1905–1907 Russian Revolution of 1905 — 11 years later
- 1908 Tunguska event — 14 years later
- 1917 October Revolution — 23 years later
- 1917–1922 Russian Civil War — 23 years later
Middle East
- 1905–1911 Persian Constitutional Revolution — 11 years later
- 1908 Oil struck at Masjed Soleyman — 14 years later
- 1908 Young Turk Revolution — 14 years later
- 1915 Armenian genocide — 21 years later
- 1916 Sykes–Picot Agreement — 22 years later
Africa
- 1885 The Mahdists take Khartoum — 9 years earlier
- 1885–1908 The Congo Free State — 9 years earlier
- 1886 The Witwatersrand Gold Rush — 8 years earlier
- 1897 The British sack Benin City — 3 years later
- 1904–1908 The Herero and Nama genocide — 10 years later
Americas
- 1876 Invention of the telephone — 18 years earlier
- 1879 Edison's incandescent lamp — 15 years earlier
- 1888 Golden Law abolishes slavery in Brazil — 6 years earlier
- 1903 Wright brothers' first flight — 9 years later
- 1914 Opening of the Panama Canal — 20 years later
Oceania
- 1893 New Zealand women win the vote — 1 year earlier
- 1893 Overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom — 1 year earlier
- 1911 Amundsen reaches the South Pole — 17 years later
- 1912 The death of Scott's polar party — 18 years later
Alive at the time
- Queen Victoria (aged 75)
- Leo Tolstoy (aged 66)
- Dmitri Mendeleev (aged 60)
- Thomas Edison (aged 47)
- Nikola Tesla (aged 38)
- Marie Curie (aged 27)
- Mahatma Gandhi (aged 25)
- Vladimir Lenin (aged 24)
- Ernest Rutherford (aged 23)
- Winston Churchill (aged 20)