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The Second World War's hostilities came to a close on 2 September 1945, with the defeat of the Empire of Japan and Nazi Germany.Taiwan, which had been ceded to Japan by the Treaty of Shimonoseki in 1895, was placed under the control of the Kuomintang-led Republic of China (ROC) by the promulgation of General Order No. 1 and the signing of the Instrument of Surrender on that day.
In the Late Pleistocene, sea levels were about 140 metres (460 ft) lower than at present, exposing the floor of the shallow Taiwan Strait as a land bridge. [6] A concentration of vertebrate fossils has been found in the channel between the Penghu Islands and Taiwan, including a partial jawbone designated Penghu 1, apparently belonging to a previously unknown species of genus Homo, dated ...
Chief Executive of Taiwan Province: 1: Chen Yi 陳儀 (1883-1950) 29 August 1945: 22 April 1947 Kuomintang: Chairperson of the Taiwan Provincial Government: 1: Wei Tao-ming 魏道明 (1899-1978) 16 May 1947: 5 January 1949 Kuomintang: 2: Chen Cheng 陳誠 (1897–1965) 5 January 1949: 8 December 1949 Kuomintang
This is a timeline of Taiwanese history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Taiwan and its predecessor states.To read about the background to these events, see History of Taiwan and History of the Republic of China.
6 Prehistory of Taiwan (before 1624) Toggle Prehistory of Taiwan (before 1624) subsection. ... 1949. Taiwan under Japanese rule (1895–1945) Empire of Japan. 1940s 1940
Before Lai was elected president he made comments about being a "practical worker for Taiwan independence". Lai maintains he simply meant Taiwan is already an independent country.
The New Taiwan dollar first issued in 1949. As the defeated Nationalists fled to Taiwan, they stripped China of liquid assets including gold, silver, and the country's dollar reserves. [6] Chiang Kai-shek's mission to take gold from China was held secretly because, according to Wu Sing-yung, the entire mission was operated by Chiang himself ...
In October 1949 a PRC attempt to take the ROC-controlled island of Kinmen was thwarted in the Battle of Kuningtou, halting the PLA advance towards Taiwan. The Communists' other amphibious operations of 1950 were more successful: they led to the Communist conquest of Hainan Island in April 1950, capture of Wanshan Islands off the Guangdong coast ...