1895 in China

Events in the year 1895 in China.

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January 20 â February 12 â First Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Weihaiwei
March 4 â First Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Yingkou
April 17 â Treaty of Shimonoseki with Empire of Japan^[1]
- islands of Taiwan and Penghu ceded to Japan
April 23 â Triple Intervention by Russian Empire, German Empire and French Third Republic.^[2]
May 5 â Prime Minister of Japan Ito Hirobumi announces withdrawal of Japanese troops from Liaodong Peninsula
MayâOctober â Taiwanese Resistance to Japanese Invasion
August 1 â Kucheng Massacre
Dungan Revolt (1895â96), a rebellion of various Chinese Muslim ethnic groups in Qinghai and Gansu against the Qing dynasty

January 10 â Liu Wenhui, general and warlord of the Sichuan clique (d. 1976)
February 8 â Khorloogiin Choibalsan, 1st leader of the Mongolian People's Republic (d. 1952)
February 24 â Liu Tianhua, musician and composer (d. 1932)
March 1 â Deng Yanda, military officer in the National Revolutionary Army (d. 1931)
March 30 â Cai Hesen, early leader of the Chinese Communist Party (d. 1931)
June 2 â Fu Zuoyi, military leader (d. 1974)
June 27 â Jamsrangiin Sambuu, 9th Chairman of the Presidium of the State Great Khural of the Mongolian People's Republic (d. 1972)
July 19 â Xu Beihong, painter (d. 1953)
July 30 â Ch'ien Mu, historian, philosopher and writer (d. 1990)
September 25 â Qian Zhuangfei, doctor, film director and secret agent for the Chinese Communist Party (d. 1935)
October 10 â Lin Yutang, inventor, linguist, novelist, philosopher and translator (d. 1976)
October 18 â Ji Hongchang, general and patriot (d. 1934)
November 23 â Fang Chih, Taiwanese politician and diplomat (d. 1989)
November 26 â Peng Shuzhi, early leader of the Chinese Communist Party (d. 1983)
December 1 â Huang Shaohong, warlord of the New Guangxi Clique (d. 1966)
December 14 â Nan Hanchen, 1st Governor of the People's Bank of China (d. 1967)
Wang Fengge