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1890 Hollerith's machines tabulate the 1890 census ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Herman Hollerith's electric tabulating machines process the 1890 U.S. census in a fraction of the time manual counting took. ●●

1891 Quigley asserts a secret society has met since 1891 ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In the preface Quigley asserts that Rhodes and Milner created a secret society that still meets in secret. He claims its meetings have been presided over by a succession of leaders since 1891. ●●

1891 Quigley dates the secret society's founding to February 1891 ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Quigley opens his account by asserting that in February 1891 three men met in London to organize a secret society. He names them as Cecil Rhodes, W. T. Stead, and Reginald Baliol Brett. ●●

1891 The secret society takes form in 1891 ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Quigley says the society took shape in 1891, the year of Rhodes's fourth will. Stead was made a trustee alongside Lord Rothschild, with Stead directing how the funds were used. ●●

1891 The society divided into an inner and outer circle ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In February 1891 Stead and Rhodes organized the society into two circles. The inner 'Society of the Elect' and the outer 'Association of Helpers' became Quigley's framework for the whole group. ●●

1891 Francis Amasa Walker declares 'racial suicide' in 1891 ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Gatto reports that in 1891 MIT president Francis Amasa Walker declared that Anglo-Saxons were committing 'racial suicide,' launching a decades-long scientific racism campaign. ●●

1891 Cecil Rhodes founds his secret society ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The book asserts, following Quigley, that Cecil Rhodes founded a secret society in 1891 that continues to operate through later 'instruments.' It presents this society as the origin of the Network. ●●

1891 Koch Institute for Infectious Diseases founded in Berlin ai_extracted 1 cit. no story With a rush of emotion, Gates drafted a strongly worded memo to Rockefeller, advocating the establishment of such an institute and citing European precedents, including the Pasteur Institute in Paris (founded in 1888) and the Koch Institute for Infectious Diseases in Berlin (1891), both of which greatly elevated the prestige of European medicine. ●●

1891 Rockefeller gains control of the Lima oil field ai_extracted 1 cit. no story “This latest deal shows that it has started to crush out the producers of the crude oil and obtain control of their property.” 17 By 1891, Rockefeller had gained control of a majority of the Lima f... ●●

1891 Sherman Antitrust Bill Introduced rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Never one to hold grudges in business, unfazed by the new law, Rockefeller supported the reelection of Senator Sherman in 1891. ●●

1891 Oil Industry Development rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story When Rockefeller consented to his demand for an extra million dollars to transfer the Morgan Park Theological Seminary to the new Chicago campus, the thirty-four-year-old Harper capitulated and for... ●●

1891 1891–1986. rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story 1891–1986. New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1992. ●●

1891 Whereas the Franco-Russian Agreement of 1891 had b... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Whereas the Franco-Russian Agreement of 1891 had been a diplomatic instrument and could plausibly have been argued to be aimed at Great Britain as wel ●●

1892 Indian Councils Act of 1892 pushed through by Curzon ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The Indian Councils Act of 1892 was carried through the Commons by George Curzon, then Under Secretary and protege of Lord Salisbury. Quigley says it introduced representative and communal principles into Indian government. ●●

1892 Munsterberg becomes Harvard psychology professor ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Gatto identifies Hugo Munsterberg as an early architect of mass schooling who arrived from Wilhelm Wundt's Leipzig laboratory. In 1892 he became a Harvard professor of psychology and taught his students to treat schools as social laboratories. ●●

1892 Homestead steel strike breaks craft union power ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Gatto notes that skilled-worker craft unions regulated factory work up to the Homestead steel strike of 1892, after which such unions were rendered ineffective except for the United Mine Workers. ●●

1892 Bankruptcy of the Panama Canal Company ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In 1892 the Panama Canal Company collapsed, and some 800,000 French investors lost $200 million. The scandal exposed deep corruption in France's political and financial elite. ●●

1892 The oral history that has come down through the Morgan famil rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The oral history that has come down through the Morgan family contends that Jack wanted to be a doctor and became a banker only when his father made it a matter of family honor.50 In 1892, at the age ... ●●

1892 University of Chicago Founding Support rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story From $124,000 in 1889 (right before his big pledge to Gates), his donations soared to $304,000 in 1890, $510,000 in 1891, and then a spectacular $1.35 million in 1892 ($22 million today) as he open... ●●

1892 Oil Industry Development rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story By 1892, Gates joyously proclaimed to Rockefeller, “Our denomination has a larger, better distributed, better organized, and more efficient educational property than any other denomination in Ameri... ●●

1892 Carl Meyer Reports on Transvaal Gold Fields candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Rothschild agent Carl Meyer travels to the Transvaal and reports enthusiastically on mining prospects. His assessment encourages major Rothschild investment in South Africa. ●●

1892 Hamburg cholera epidemic kills 8,000 ai_extracted 1 cit. no story A virulent cholera epidemic swept Hamburg, killing 8,000 residents through contaminated Elbe water. Max Warburg fearlessly ran the bank during the plague, working midnight shifts. ●●

1892 Urey saw the point and withdrew; “from that time forward,” write his colleague b rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Urey saw the point and withdrew; “from that time forward,” write his colleague biographers, “his energies were directed to the control of atomic energy, not its applications.”1892 * * * Twelve days after Enrico Fermi proved the chain reaction in Chicago on December 2, 1942, Groves had assembled a list of criteria for a plutonium production area and definitely and finally ruled out Tennessee. ●●

1892 Giers’ eventual successor as Foreign Minister, Cou... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Giers’ eventual successor as Foreign Minister, Count Vladimir Lamsdorff, wrote in his diary in early February 1892: They (the French) are also prepari ●●

1892 The first step in this direction occurred during t... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The first step in this direction occurred during the negotiation for a Franco-Russian military alliance in 1892. ●●

1892 Almost invariably, its definition hinged on who wa... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Almost invariably, its definition hinged on who was perceived to have initiated the hostilities. In May 1892, the Russian negotiator, Adjutant General ●●

1892 * * * Twelve days after Enrico Fermi proved the chain reaction in Chicago on December 2, 1942, Grov rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story * * * Twelve days after Enrico Fermi proved the chain reaction in Chicago on December 2, 1942, Groves had assembled a list of criteria for a plutonium production area and definitely and finally ruled out Tennessee. ●●

1892 Putnam’s Sons, 1892–99), 8:158–59, quoted in Robert W rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story nic growth. In New England: Alexis de Tocqueville, “Concerning Their Point of Departure,” in Democracy in America, trans. George Lawrence (New York: Harper & Row, 1969), 46–47. “We feel that we are acting”: Paul Leicester Ford, ed., The Writings of T ●●

1892 Event of 1892 rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story And beginning in 1892, Great Britain’s Joseph Chamberlain showed how immigration restrictions might form part of a nationalist program with appeal to ●●

1892 Thus the directors of the National Wall Paper Company, formed in 1892, agreed in candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Thus the directors of the National Wall Paper Company, formed in 1892, agreed in 1900, “That the company be dissolved, and the factories be returned t ●●

1892 Although that company was formed in 1892, eight months before General Electric c rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Although that company was formed in 1892, eight months before General Electric came into being, its managers took two decades to perfect an organizati ●●

1892 General Electric incorporated through merger ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The General Electric Company, incorporated in November 1892, was a merger of two of these three large electrical equipment manufacturers ●●

1893 Birth of Mao Tse-tung, 1893 ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Quigley gives Mao's origins: born in 1893 in Hunan Province, the son of a domineering, miserly peasant who had grown modestly wealthy through moneylending. ●●

1893 NEA reports reverse the Committee of Ten report of 1893 ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Gatto follows Frances Fitzgerald in noting that the blue-ribbon Committee of Ten report of 1893 laid down a rigorous academic program for all children. He says later NEA reports of 1911 and 1918 reversed it. ●●

1893 Pinkertons and the Homestead steel strike ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Gatto refers to the Homestead steel strike, when Pinkerton detectives were sent to do Andrew Carnegie's work against strikers. He dates the strike to 1893. ●●

1893 Panic of 1893 ai_extracted 1 cit. no story A severe financial panic struck the United States in 1893. It fueled debtor unrest and gave rise to the Bryan free-silver campaigns. ●●

1893 (In this last capacity, he worked with Lorrin Thurston in rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story (In this last capacity, he worked with Lorrin Thurston in 1893 on the unsuccessful campaign to annex Hawaii.) Young Dulles often stayed at his grandfa (1893) ●●

1893 Planters stage overthrow of Hawaii's monarchy ai_extracted 1 cit. no story A few dozen sugar planters and descendants of missionaries, led by the firebrand lawyer Lorrin Thurston (left), staged Hawaii’s modest “revolution” in (1893) ●●

1893 Overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy ai_extracted 1 cit. no story American diplomat John L. Stevens and local conspirators orchestrated the overthrow of Hawaii's Queen Liliuokalani. This operation was the first time the U.S. government explicitly planned and executed the overthrow of a foreign government, beginning a century-long pattern of American regime change. ●●

1893 Hawaii Overthrow Plot Meeting rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story American minister John L. Stevens joined conspirators on January 14, 1893, to overthrow Hawaii's monarchy. Stevens understood the historical significance of being the first Americans to explicitly plan a foreign government overthrow. ●●

1893 In 1893, Markoe told him of an operation he had performed in rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In 1893, Markoe told him of an operation he had performed in a tenement kitchen to save an immigrant mother and her baby. Pierpont counted out three hundred-dollar bills. ●●

1893 Anthony Drexel dies at Karlsbad ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In June 1893, Tony Drexel died while visiting the Austro-Hungarian health resort of Karlsbad, leaving an estate said to be worth between $25 and $30 million. While giving Pierpont managerial control i... ●●

1893 This exodus of metal was greatly accelerated by the 1893 pan rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story This exodus of metal was greatly accelerated by the 1893 panic, with its bank failures and railroad bankruptcies. Adding to European jitters were American attempts to tamper with the U. ●●

1893 As the 1893 panic worsened, agrarian populists asked the gov rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story As the 1893 panic worsened, agrarian populists asked the government to mint silver coins and create cheap money, a move supported by the new silver-producing states. Farming districts scoffed at the n... ●●

1893 In 1893, Davison married Kate Trubee, and they moved to New rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In 1893, Davison married Kate Trubee, and they moved to New York so Harry could start work at the Astor Trust Company. One day, a crank appeared at his teller’s window, pointed a gun at Davison, and p... ●●

1893 Birth of Allen Welsh Dulles ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Allen Welsh Dulles was born on April 7, 1893, five years after his brother John Foster. He would become director of the Central Intelligence Agency. ●●

1893 Oil Industry Development rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Built at a moment of civic pride, the new university sprang up beside the fabled White City of the 1893 Columbian Exposition. The fairgrounds featured a spectacular Standard Oil exhibit of a miniat... ●●

1893 If because of some unknown and unanticipated factor a reactor were to explode an rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story If because of some unknown and unanticipated factor a reactor were to explode and throw great quantities of highly radioactive materials into the atmosphere when the wind was blowing toward Knoxville, the loss of life and the damage to health in the area might be catastrophic.” Such an accident might “wipe out all semblance of security in the project,” Groves could imagine, and it might render the electromagnetic and gaseous-diffusion plants “inoperable.”1893 Better to site plutonium production somewhere far away. ●●

1893 Better to site plutonium production somewhere far away. rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Better to site plutonium production somewhere far away. ●●

1893 Information history in 1893 rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story g the entries on angioplasty and Sigmund Freud. ♦ “IT HAS NEVER BEEN SPREAD OUT, YET”: Lewis Carroll, Sylvie and Bruno Concluded (London: Macmillan, 1893), 169. ●●

1893 Event of 1893 rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Argentine pampas, and the North American plains therefore seemed to signal the end of an era, marked in the United States by Frederick Jackson Turner’ ●●

1893 Dahomey soldiers revolt in German Cameroon ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Consider the following vignette from German-controlled Cameroon, where the “imperial chancellor of the protectorate, Leist, had the wives of Dahomey soldiers whipped in the presence of their husbands, which resulted in December 1893 in a revolt of the soldiers. ●●

1893 As the largest New York enterprise, the Metropolitan Street Railway Company, beg candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story As the largest New York enterprise, the Metropolitan Street Railway Company, began to shift from cable and horse to electric-powered cars in 1893, its ●●

1893 According to Bureau of Corporation’s investigators, wholesale prices fell from 1 rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story According to Bureau of Corporation’s investigators, wholesale prices fell from 1893 (American Tobacco’s accounts were first consolidated in 1892) unti ●●

1893 The agricultural implement firms began to sell abroad extensively only after the rejected ai_extracted 2 cit. no story The agricultural implement firms began to sell abroad extensively only after the coming of hard times in 1893 reduced demand at home ●●

1893 The company continued to rely on regular meetings of the plant superintendents, rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The company continued to rely on regular meetings of the plant superintendents, started in 1893, to set basic policies and procedures ●●

1893 5 For a brief time the constituent companies continued to operate independently;... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story 5 For a brief time the constituent companies continued to operate independently; but after 1893 their functional activities were consolidated into the Duke manufacturing, sales, and leaf (purchasing) departments ●●

1893 The formal cartel operated from 1893 to 1902, with the exception of one year, 18... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The formal cartel operated from 1893 to 1902, with the exception of one year, 1897 ●●

1893 Ohio Supreme Court dissolves Standard Oil trust ai_extracted 1 cit. no story One reason was that the trust was dissolved in 1893 after it was declared illegal by the Ohio Supreme Court ●●

1893 The company continued to rely on regular meetings of the plant superintendents,... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The company continued to rely on regular meetings of the plant superintendents, started in 1893, to set basic policies and procedures ●●

23 June 1894 Founding of the International Olympic Committee 0 cit. no story Pierre de Coubertin's congress at the Sorbonne votes to revive the Olympic Games and creates the International Olympic Committee, leading to the first modern Games in Athens in 1896. culture / diplomacy / society ●●●

1894 Franco-Russian Dual Alliance formed (1894) ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Isolated by Germany's refusal to renew the Reinsurance Treaty, Russia and France moved together to form the Dual Alliance of 1894, a military convention that became the base of the Triple Entente. ●●

1894 Imperialist aggressions of 1894-1899 ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Quigley argues the late-19th-century cult of violence formed the background for imperialist aggressions begun by Japan, Italy, and Britain in China, Ethiopia, and South Africa in 1894-1899. ●●

1894 Cattell founds The Psychological Review, 1894 ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Gatto notes that James McKeen Cattell, the first titled professor of psychology, founded The Psychological Review in 1894 and trained hundreds of doctoral candidates. ●●

1894 Greenbackers stage the first March on Washington ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In 1894 the Greenbackers, who wanted the dollar detached from gold to fund job creation, invented the idea of the March on Washington. The tactic became lasting in US political history. ●●

1894 Around 1894, when William Rainey Harper first proposed rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Around 1894, when William Rainey Harper first proposed a medical school for the University of Chicago, Rockefeller countered with a novel proposal for a medical department devoted mainly or exclusively to research. ●●

1894 French President Sadi Carnot assassinated ai_extracted 1 cit. no story His future medical agenda was defined in 1894 when President Sadi Carnot of France was stabbed by an assassin and died from the hemorrhaging of a severed blood vessel. ●●

1894 Oil Industry Development rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Such visible activism handicapped Harper in courting local business, as he made clear in a letter to Bemis in July 1894: Your speech at the First Presbyterian Church has caused me a great deal of ... ●●

1894 Alfred Dreyfus falsely convicted of espionage ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish officer, was falsely accused of espionage in 1894, court-martialled on forged evidence, and sentenced to life imprisonment. The scandal deeply polarized France and damaged the standing of the entire Jewish community. ●●

1894 Japan defeats China, enabling Russian expansion ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Japanese military victory over China enables Russian expansion in East Asia through control of Liaotung and railway concessions. Rothschild and Hansemann respond by proposing Anglo-German cooperation in China. ●●

1894 French Rothschilds resume underwriting Russian loans ai_extracted 1 cit. no story After years of refusing Russian loans on human rights grounds, the French Rothschilds agree to underwrite a major loan. Political considerations override concerns about Tsarist anti-Semitism. ●●

1894 Felix Warburg meets Frieda Schiff in Frankfurt rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Felix Warburg met Frieda Schiff on May 5, 1894 at a Frankfurt dinner. He declared immediately he would marry her, beginning a remarkable trans-Atlantic courtship resisted by her stern father Jacob Schiff. ●●

1894 1894, a military convention was signed in which Fr... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In 1894, a military convention was signed in which France agreed to aid Russia if Russia was attacked by Germany, or by Austria in combination with Ge ●●

1894 1894: By 1894 it had gone through eighty-nine editions and sold 1,... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story , all well indexed. “Enquirers are referred to the index at the end,” the title page instructed. By 1894 it had gone through eighty-nine editions and sold 1,188,000 copies. “The book served as a porta ●●

1894 1894: the index at the end,” the title page instructed. By 1894 it had gone rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story the index at the end,” the title page instructed. By 1894 it had gone through eighty-nine editions and sold 1,188,000 copies. “The book served as a po ●●

1894 Event of 1894 rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story vault Japan into the ranks of global powers. In 1886, after a brawl between Chinese sailors and Nagasaki police, a modern German-built Chinese warship sailed toward Japan, compelling a resolution. By the next decade, intensive naval construction and ●●

1894 Alan Turing is born in London ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Alan Mathison Turing was born at Warrington Lodge, London, on June 23, 1912, to Julius Mathison Turing, who worked for the Indian Civil Service, and E ●●

1894 In April 1894, Wills, the largest British Tobacco manufacturer, became concerned... candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In April 1894, Wills, the largest British Tobacco manufacturer, became concerned about American Tobacco Company’s increasing power in the leaf market, but after an investigation George Wills decided that “the American Tobacco Company was not in a position to dictate prices on its own purchases of leaf ●●

December 1895 to October 1896 First Italo-Ethiopian War 0 cit. no story Ethiopia under Menelik II destroys an invading Italian army at Adwa in 1896. It is the most decisive African victory over a European colonial power in the nineteenth century. war ●●●

24 February 1895 to August 1898 Cuban War of Independence 0 cit. no story Cuban rebels fight Spain in a brutal war marked by Spanish reconcentration camps. The conflict draws in the United States in 1898 and ends Spanish rule in Cuba. politics / war ●●●

1895 Bubonic plague reaches Bombay, 1895 ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Bubonic plague was introduced to Bombay from China in 1895 and killed about two million people over the following six years. ●●

1895 Quigley credits the group with the Jameson Raid and the Boer War ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Quigley claims the secret group was behind major imperial events. Among these he lists the 1895 Jameson Raid and the 1899-1902 Boer War, along with control of the Rhodes Trust. ●●

1895 Brassey made Governor of Victoria ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Quigley counts Thomas Brassey among those drawn into the Rhodes secret society. Brassey was appointed Governor of Victoria in 1895 and helped create the Commonwealth of Australia in 1900. ●●

1895 Jameson's raid into the Transvaal ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Leander Starr Jameson led a raid into the Transvaal with Rhodesian police in 1895. Quigley calls it one of the chief events leading up to the Boer War. ●●

1895 The Times prints the fraudulent 'women and children' letter ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Quigley says The Times published a fraudulent 'women and children' letter dated 20 December 1895 to justify the Jameson Raid. He states Jameson himself concocted it a month earlier and sent it to Flora Shaw. ●●

1895 Jameson Raid investigated by the Select Committee (31 Dec 1895) ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Quigley discusses the failed Jameson Raid into the Transvaal and its cover-up. He frames it as an example of the machinations of Rhodes's secret society, investigated by a Parliamentary Select Committee. ●●

1895 NEA calls for teaching evolution as fact ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Gatto states that in 1895 the National Education Association announced that school science courses should teach evolution as fact rather than theory. He links the shift to how schooling sorted students by supposed fitness. ●●

1895 France invades Madagascar ai_extracted 1 cit. no story France invaded Madagascar, removed Queen Ranavalona III from power, and declared the island a French colony. The conquest opened the way to heavy taxation of the Malagasy population. ●●

1895 A battle had been brewing since 1895, when Pierpont decided rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story A battle had been brewing since 1895, when Pierpont decided not to reorganize the bankrupt Union Pacific, which he scoffed at as “two streaks of iron rust across the plains.”54 His willingness to writ... ●●

1895 He estimated that true competition prevailed in fewer rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story He estimated that true competition prevailed in fewer than 10 percent of all petroleum markets and noted that kerosene prices had risen unreasonably from 1895 (when Archbold took charge) to 1906, creating widespread consumer discontent. ●●

1895 Rockefeller pledges $3 million to University of Chicago ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In October 1895, Gates went to Chicago armed with a letter from Rockefeller pledging another three million dollars for the school’s endowment—possibly the largest such sum ever given at one time by... ●●

1895 Jameson Raid fails in the Transvaal ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Cecil Rhodes's private military invasion of the Transvaal fails to overthrow Kruger's government. Natty Rothschild immediately seeks to rebuild Anglo-Boer relations. ●●

1895 1895 European rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Even granted the high level of Japanese patriotic fervor and the memory of its staggering successes against far larger opponents in 1895 (China) and 1905 (Russia), what it was now ... ●●

1895 Paul Warburg marries Nina Loeb ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Paul Warburg married Nina Loeb in October 1895 at her family's New Jersey summer home. Their romance revived when they reunited as best man and maid of honor at Felix's wedding in March. ●●

1895 who called themselves physicists and the larger, associated network of chemists. rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story who called themselves physicists and the larger, associated network of chemists. ●●

1895 Groves could hardly build Hanford until he knew more about the plant that would go there. rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Groves could hardly build Hanford until he knew more about the plant that would go there. ●●

1895 Rontgen discovers X-rays ai_extracted 1 cit. no story one month after Rutherford arrived at Cambridge, the German physicist Wilhelm Röntgen discovered X rays radiating from the fluorescing glass wall of a cathode-ray tube. ●●

1895 Information history in 1895 rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story aced metal staples with insulated fasteners. They attached dry batteries and speaking tubes and added spare wire to bridge the gaps. ●●

1895 He points to the relative success of Japanese administration in building institutions in Taiwan in t rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story He points to the relative success of Japanese administration in building institutions in Taiwan in the years that it was ruled as a colonial dependency (from the Sino-Japanese War of 1895 to Japan’s defeat in 1945). ●●

1895 Japan defeats China in Sino-Japanese War ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Japan defeated China in the 1895 Sino-Japanese War, which led to the loss of Taiwan, and of Korea as a vassal state. ●●