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| 1887 |
| | | The imperial government in China formally acknowledges Portuguese territorial rights in Macao | |
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| 1891 |
| | | Civil war breaks out in Chile between supporters of a liberal president and a hostile congress | |
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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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| 1895 |
| | | At the end of the Sino-Japanese war China cedes to Japan the island of Taiwan, together with Port Arthur and the Liadong peninsula | |
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| 1898 |
| | | Russian forces seize the strategically important Chinese harbour known in the west as Port Arthur | |
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| 1899 |
| | | US Secretary of State John Hay circulates a proposal that western powers should adopt an open-to-all trading policy in China | |
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| 1900 |
| | | Hostility to foreign intrusion erupts in China with the Boxer Rising | |
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| 1905 |
| | | The Japanese defeat a larger force of Russians at Mukden in the final land battle of the Russo-Japanese War | |
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| 1905 |
| | | The Treaty of Portsmouth gives Japan control of Port Arthur and much of the Liaotung Peninsula | |
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