* 1894 – The First Sino-Japanese War erupts between Japan and China over Korea.

This marks the end of the First Sino-Japanese War, and the defeated Qing Empire is forced to renounce its claims on Korea and to concede the southern portion of the Fengtien province, Taiwan and the Pescadores Islands to Japan.

* 1894 – The First Sino-Japanese War begins when the Japanese fire upon a Chinese warship.

It includes Japan's annexation of the Okinawan island group in 1872, the First Sino-Japanese War ( 1894 – 1895 ), the Russo-Japanese War ( 1904 – 1905 ), the annexation of Korea, and the rise of Japanese militarism ( 1905 – 1945 ).

* 1894 – Port Arthur, Manchuria falls to the Japanese, a decisive victory of the First Sino-Japanese War, after which Japanese troops massacre the remaining inhabitants of the city.

First Sino-Japanese War | Sino-Japanese War of 1894-5.

Taiwan, originally part of Fujian province, became a province of its own in the 19th century, but was ceded to the Empire of Japan following the First Sino-Japanese War by the end of the century.

Footage of a naval battle during the First Sino-Japanese War ( 1894 ).

Losing the First Sino-Japanese War of 1894 – 1895 was a watershed for the Qing government.

The history textbook controversy centers upon the secondary school history textbook Atarashii Rekishi Kyōkasho (" New History Textbook ") said to minimise the nature of Japanese militarism in the First Sino-Japanese War ( 1894 – 95 ), in annexing Korea in 1910, in the Second Sino-Japanese War ( 1937 – 45 ), and in the Second World War ( 1939 – 45 ).

* 1894 – The Battle of Yalu River, the largest naval engagement of the First Sino-Japanese War.

* 1894 – First Sino-Japanese War: Japan defeats China in the Battle of Pyongyang.

Following the First Sino-Japanese War in 1895, Taiwan was ceded by Qing government to the Empire of Japan via the Treaty of Shimonoseki.

The Chinese turret ship Dingyuan was purportedly hit and disabled by a torpedo after numerous attacks by Japanese torpedo boats during the First Sino-Japanese War in 1894.

* The First Sino-Japanese War occurred between 1894 and 1895, primarily over control of the country Korea.

From the end of the First Sino-Japanese War and 1903, negotiations between Russia and Japan had proved impractical.

First Sino-Japanese War and Second Sino-Japanese War,

During the First Sino-Japanese War ( 1894 – 1895 ) Katsura commanded the IJA 3rd Division under his mentor, Field Marshal Yamagata Aritomo.

Category: People of the First Sino-Japanese War

During Itō's second term as prime minister ( August 8, 1892 – August 31, 1896 ), he supported the First Sino-Japanese War and negotiated the Treaty of Shimonoseki in March 1895 with his ailing foreign minister Mutsu Munemitsu.

Category: People of the First Sino-Japanese War

From then, parts of Taiwan became increasingly integrated into the Qing Dynasty before it ceded the island, along with Penghu, to the Empire of Japan in 1895, following the First Sino-Japanese War.

When the United States entered the First World War Baker made certain that the Draft Act of 1917 prohibited the sale of liquor to men in uniform and that it provided for broad zones around the camps in which prostitution was outlawed.

The process of cosmopolitanism had begun in earnest about 1912, but the First War and the depression virtually stalled that process in its tracks.

When that was broken up after the First World War, its name was changed once more.

With the birth of the Turkish Republic after the First World War, St. Sophia became a museum, and the ancient mosaics, which were plastered over by the Moslems, whose religion forbids pictures in holy places, have been restored.

and the First World War.

William Joseph Slim, First Viscount Slim, former Governor General of Australia, was the principal British commander in the field during the Burma War.

A decade and a half later, the Polish anthropology student, Bronisław Malinowski ( 1884 – 1942 ), was beginning what he expected to be a brief period of fieldwork in the old model, collecting lists of cultural items, when the outbreak of the First World War stranded him in New Guinea.

Aldous ' near-blindness disqualified him from service in the First World War.

During the First World War Korzybski served as an intelligence officer in the Russian Army.

* 1914 – World War I: First Battle of the Atlantic – two days after the United Kingdom had declared war on Germany over the German invasion of Belgium, ten German U-boats leave their base in Heligoland to attack Royal Navy warships in the North Sea.

England and Australia were evenly matched until the outbreak of the First World War in 1914.

* 1801 – First Barbary War: The American schooner captures the Tripolitan polacca Tripoli in a single-ship action off the coast of modern-day Libya.

* 1805 – First Barbary War: United States Marines captured Derne under the command of First Lieutenant Presley O ' Bannon.

* 1943 – World War II: First Québec Conference of Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and William Lyon Mackenzie King begins.

* Albert, Somme a French Commune, site of three battles during the First World War

Aachen was chosen as the site of several important congresses and peace treaties: the first congress of Aachen ( often referred to as Congress of Aix-la-Chapelle in English ) in 1668, leading to the First Treaty of Aachen in the same year which ended the War of Devolution.

Fleeing Iran, he arrived in Kandahar, Afghanistan in 1841 — a town that had been occupied by an Anglo-Indian army in 1839 in the First Anglo-Afghan War.

A close relationship developed between Hasan Ali Shah and the British, which coincided with the final years of the First Anglo-Afghan War ( 1838 – 1842 ).

The ensuing 3-year conflict will later be known as the First Opium War.

During the First World War, because of his family connections with both sides and the division of popular opinion, Spain remained neutral.

* 1795 – War of the First Coalition: The British capture Trincomalee ( present-day Sri Lanka ) from the Dutch in order to keep it out of French hands.

* 1842 – Treaty of Nanking signing ends the First Opium War.

In 1914, on the eve of the First World War, Carnegie founded the Church Peace Union ( CPU ), a group of leaders in religion, academia, and politics.