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| 1863 |
| | | France establishes a protectorate over Cambodia | |
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| 1864 |
| | | Imperial Chinese troops and Gordon's auxiliaries take Nanjing, the rebel capital, finally bringing to an end the Taiping rebellion | |
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| 1875 |
| | | Nikolai Przewalski discovers in western Mongolia a surviving example of the wild breed from which the horse was domesticated | |
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| 1883 |
| | | Eruption of the volcano on the Indonesian island of Krakatoa sends six cubic miles of debris into the atmosphere and causes a huge tsunami | |
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| 1887 |
| | | The imperial government in China formally acknowledges Portuguese territorial rights in Macao | |
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| 1887 |
| | | France brings Cambodia and Vietnam into a federation of protectorates under the title French Indochina | |
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| 1891 |
| | | Work begins in the Urals and at Vladivostock, laying track which will eventually join up as the Trans-Siberian railway | |
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| 1893 |
| | | France incorporates Laos within French Indochina | |
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| 1894 |
| | | Japan and China go to war over Korea, with disastrous results for China | |
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| 1895 |
| | | Japan's navy destroys the remains of China's fleet at Weihaiwei | |
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