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| 1858 |
| | | Napoleon III sends forces to capture the port of Da Nang, beginning the French colonization of Vietnam | |
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| 1863 |
| | | France establishes a protectorate over Cambodia | |
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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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| 1893 |
| | | France incorporates Laos within French Indochina | |
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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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| 1927 |
| | | Achmed Sukarno becomes the first chairman of the new Indonesian Nationalist Party | |
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| 1938 |
| | | Jiang Jieshi (Chiang Kai-shek) builds the Burma Road as a supply route | |
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