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Year Date Event 1603: Chinese scholar Chen Di spends some time at the Bay of Tayouan (which Taiwan takes its name from) during a Ming dynasty anti-pirate mission and provides the first significant description of Taiwanese aborigines [7]
A joint planning and logistical center was established in Taiwan to assist Japan's southward advance after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. [264] Taiwan served as a base for Japanese naval and air attacks on Luzon until the surrender of the Philippines in May 1942. It served as a rear staging ground for attacks on Myanmar. As the war turned against ...
Becomes free from Vietnamese occupation; it gets back its name instead of the People's Republic of Kampuchea Republic of China (Taiwan) [ Asia 1 ] 1 January 1912
The U.S. State Department's Taiwan page last week removed a previous reference to not supporting Taiwan's independence. The Qing dynasty incorporated Taiwan as part of Fujian province in 1684 and ...
1 Taiwan under Republic of China rule (from 1945) 2 Taiwan under Japanese rule (1895–1945) 3 Taiwan under Qing rule (1683–1895) 4 Kingdom of Tungning (1662–1683)
Taiwan, [II] [i] officially the Republic of China (ROC), [I] is a country [26] in East Asia. [l] The main island of Taiwan, also known as Formosa, lies between the East and South China Sea in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the northeast, and the Philippines to the south.
Subsequently, a temporary Office of the Taiwan Province Administrative Governor (臺灣省行政長官公署) was established in Taipei City. In 1947 the KMT government under Chiang Kai-shek declared island-wide martial law in Taiwan as a result of the February 28 Incident , which began with incidents in Taipei but led to an island-wide ...
The book was banned during the period of Martial law in Taiwan, but underground circulation exposed many readers, including Lee Teng-hui, to a more indigenous view of Taiwan. [4] The Taiwan Independence Association [ zh ] , famous for being the "last" prosecuted subjects of the Anti-Insurgency Law of 1949 [ zh ] , were influenced by this work.