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| 1900 |
| | | Hostility to foreign intrusion erupts in China with the Boxer Rising | |
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| 1902 |
| | | The three-year Philippine-American War is brought to an end, and the Philippines become a US colony | |
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| 1904 |
| | | A surprise Japanese attack on Russian warships in Port Arthur launches the Russo-Japanese War for influence in the Far East | |
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| 1904 |
| | | British troops under Francis Younghusband enter Tibet's holy city of Lhasa | |
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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 |
| | | Two thirds of the Russian fleet is sunk after being ambushed by Japanese warships in the Tsushima Strait | |
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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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| 1908 |
| | | The last Manchu emperor, Puyi, is placed on the throne at the age of two on the death of his uncle, the Guanxu emperor | |
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| 1908 |
| | | The Empress Dowager Cixi dies the day after selecting the infant Puyi for the Chinese throne | |
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| 1909 |
| | | Bernard Leach moves to Japan to study oriental traditions in the graphic arts | |
|  | Stoneware box, Bernard Leach
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