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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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| 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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| 1898 |
| | | The Philippines declare independence from the colonial power, Spain, with whom they are at war | |
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| 1898 |
| | | The agreement ending the Spanish-American War includes Spain selling the Philippines to the USA for a payment of $20 million | |
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