Japan annexes Korea
The Korean Empire becomes a Japanese colony for 35 years
On 22 August 1910 a treaty signed in Seoul transferred sovereignty over Korea from its emperor to the Emperor of Japan; Korea had been a protectorate since 1905. Rule by a Japanese governor-general lasted until Japan surrendered in 1945.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Whole world
- 1914–1918 World War I — 4 years later
- 1918–1920 Spanish flu pandemic — 8 years later
- 1920 League of Nations founded — 10 years later
Europe
- 1889 Eiffel Tower — 21 years earlier
- 1905 Einstein's miracle year and relativity — 5 years earlier
- 1919 Treaty of Versailles — 9 years later
- 1928 Discovery of penicillin — 18 years later
- 1933 Hitler comes to power — 23 years later
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1905–1907 Russian Revolution of 1905 — 5 years earlier
- 1908 Tunguska event — 2 years earlier
- 1917 October Revolution — 7 years later
- 1917–1922 Russian Civil War — 7 years later
- 1929–1933 Collectivization in the Soviet Union — 19 years later
Middle East
- 1905–1911 Persian Constitutional Revolution — 5 years earlier
- 1908 Oil struck at Masjed Soleyman — 2 years earlier
- 1908 Young Turk Revolution — 2 years earlier
- 1915–1917 Armenian genocide — 5 years later
- 1916 Sykes–Picot Agreement — 6 years later
Africa
- 1897 The British sack Benin City — 13 years earlier
- 1898 Battle of Omdurman — 12 years earlier
- 1899–1902 Second Boer War — 11 years earlier
- 1904–1908 The Herero and Nama genocide — 6 years earlier
- 1922 Discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb — 12 years later
Americas
- 1906 San Francisco earthquake — 4 years earlier
- 1910–1920 Mexican Revolution — same year
- 1913 Ford's moving assembly line — 3 years later
- 1914 Opening of the Panama Canal — 4 years later
- 1929 Wall Street Crash and the Great Depression — 19 years later
Oceania
- 1893 New Zealand women win the vote — 17 years earlier
- 1893 Overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom — 17 years earlier
- 1911 Amundsen reaches the South Pole — 1 year later
- 1912 The death of Scott's polar party — 2 years later
Alive at the time
- Leo Tolstoy (aged 82)
- Thomas Edison (aged 63)
- Nikola Tesla (aged 54)
- Marie Curie (aged 43)
- Mahatma Gandhi (aged 41)
- Vladimir Lenin (aged 40)
- Ernest Rutherford (aged 39)
- Winston Churchill (aged 36)
- Joseph Stalin (aged 32)
- Albert Einstein (aged 31)