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March 8, 2014
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Timeline of Taiwanese history

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This is a timeline of History of Taiwan|Taiwanese History.



  • It is pre-supposed that the Chinese first discover the island in the third century, BC. This claim cannot be proven using current evidence.




  • 1544: Taiwan named Ilha Formosa, or "Beautiful Island," by sailors from Portugal.

  • 1593: Hideyoshi Toyotomi sent his delegate, 原田孫七郎, from Japan to Formosa.




  • 1604: Netherlands|Dutch traders forced out of the Pescadores Islands (or Penghu) by the Ming Dynasty|Ming.

  • 1623: Ming Dynasty prohibited the naval transport between Formsa and the Mainland China.

  • 1624: Dutch East India Company (VOC) occupies Tayuan (大員) (now Anping) and builds Fort Zeelandia (Taiwan)| Fort Zeelandia; immigration of Han Chinese from mainland China increases significantly.

  • 1626: The Spanish Navy builds Fort San Salvador in Santissima Trinidad (now Keelung harbor).

  • 1626-1636: Trade dispute between VOC and Japan.(濱田彌兵衛事件)

  • 1627: Dutch Rev. Georgius Candidius, the first Protestant missionary to Taiwan, arrives in Sinckan (now Sinshih).

  • 1629: Spanish Navy builds Fort San Domingo in Castillo (now Tamsui), later renamed Hong-Mao Cheng (紅毛城, literally, the Fortress of the Red Haired Barbarians).

  • 1642: Fort San Domingo captured by the Netherlands|Dutch; the Spaniards are ousted.

  • 1647: Dutch authority introduced 121 Indian Oxens to the aborigines for agricuture purpose.

  • 1652: Guo Huai-yi (郭懷一) incident.

  • 1653: The capital of the Dutch colonial government moved to Fort Provintia (now Tainan City).

  • 1661: Koxinga, a pirate and Ming Dynasty|Ming loyalist, invades Taiwan.

  • 1662: Koxinga captures Fort Zeelandia (Taiwan)|Fort Zeelandia and ousts the Dutch; dies shortly afterwards.

  • 1683: The Qing Dynasty|Qing (or Ching) attacks Taiwan; Koxinga's successor surrenders and is expelled.

  • 1684: Southwestern Taiwan becomes part of Qing territory as a County of China|prefecture of Fujian Province of China|province; policy of immigration restriction enacted.




  • 1721: Jhu Yi-guei (朱一貴) incident.

  • 1723: Changhua County|Changhua and Tamsui counties established.

  • 1786: Lin Shuang-wun (林爽文) incident.

  • 1796: Wu Sha (吳沙) settles in Kavalan (now Yilan County).




  • 1810: Kavalan become the territory of Qing.

  • 1845: Tsunami attacked Yunlin County leading to 10,000 deaths.http://news.yam.com/tdn/international/200501/20050101790676.html

  • 1854: Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry anchored off of Keelung for ten days.

  • 1862: Dai Chao-chun (戴潮春) incident.

  • 1863: Treaty of T'ientsin; Keelung, Tamsui, Anping (now Tainan), and T?ⁿ-k?u (打狗, now Kaohsiung) ports opened to foreigners.

  • 1867: An earthquake at 7.0 scale causing a tsunami attacking Keelung on Dec 18 was recorded in Formosa by Alvarez. Death toll reached 50 thousands.

  • 1871: Canadian missionary George Leslie Mackay arrives in Tamsui.

  • 1874: Okinawa vessel incident; Japan launches bloody retribution compaign against the Paiwan Taiwanese aborigine|aborigine group in Mutan She.

  • 1875: Taipei County|Taipei Prefecture (north) divided from Taiwan Prefecture (south).

  • 1874: Mudan Village (牡丹社) Incident.

  • 1884: Franco-Chinese War; blockade of the Keelung and Tamsui harbors by the France|French.

  • 1887: Taiwan established as a Taiwan Province|province separate from Fujian.

  • 1891: Railway between Keelung and Dadaocheng (now part of Taipei City) completed.

  • 1894: First Sino-Japanese War.

  • 1895: Treaty of Shimonoseki; Taiwan and the Pescadores ceded to Japan|Japanese, becoming a Japanese colony.

  • 1895: The short-lived Republic of Taiwan.

  • 1895: National Taiwan University Hospital|Taipei Hospital established.




1901-1910
  • 1901: The railroad between Keelung and Hsinchu rebuilt.

  • 1904: Taiwan bank notes issued.

  • 1905: Earthquake in Chiayi.

  • 1905: First population census. (First Provisional Taiwan Household Registration Survey)

  • 1908: North-South (Western Line) Railway completed.


1911-1920
  • 1913: Miaoli Incident.

  • 1915: Tapani Incident, largest revolt in Taiwanese history; over 10,000 protesters killed by Japanese authorities.

1921-1930
  • 1921: Taiwanese Culture Association founded.

  • 1921: "Petition to Establish a Taiwan Parliament" movement begins.

  • 1923: Emperor Hirohito of Japan visits Taiwan.

  • 1924: Yilan Line Railroad completed.

  • 1926: Hwatung Line Railroad completed.

  • 1927: Taiwanese People's Party, Taiwan's first political party, founded.

  • 1928: National Taiwan University|Taihoku Imperial University (now National Taiwan University) founded.

  • 1930: Jianan (or Chianan) Canal (嘉南大圳) completed.

  • 1930: Wushe Incident; Japan forcefully crushes rebellion by the Atayal Taiwanese aborigine|aborigine group.

1931-1940
  • 1935: Earthquake in Miaoli.

  • 1935: Exposition to Commemorate the 40th Anniversary of the Beginning of Administration in Taiwan.

  • 1937: Four national parks planned.

  • 1937: Sun Moon Lake Hydroelectric Power Plant completed.

  • 1939: Industrial production surpasses agricultural production.


1941-1950
  • 1941: Taiwan Revolutionary League formed to coordinate anti-Japan resistance.

  • 1941: Segregation of primary schools between Japanese and Taiwanese children ends.

  • 1941: Pingtung Line Railroad completed

  • 1943: Compulsory primary education begins.

  • 1945: Popular Legislature Election Law enacted.

  • 1945: Japan defeated in World War II, Kuomintang (or Chinese Nationalist Party) military rule under Chief Executive Chen Yi (Kuomintang)|Chen Yi begins.

  • 1947: 228 Incident; "White Terror" begins.

  • 1947: US consulate in Taipei proposed "status of Taiwan is undetermined" and "Taiwan Under UN trustee" program in March.

  • 1947: Chen Yi recalled and Taiwan Provincial Government established.

  • 1949: April 6 Incident.

  • 1949: The New Taiwan dollar is issued, exchanged at 1:40,000 old Taiwan dollars.

  • 1949: Kuomintang army defeated in the Chinese Civil War, retreats to Taiwan with 2 million refugees.

  • 1949: The capital of the Republic of China (ROC) relocated from Nanjing to Taipei.


1951-1960
  • 1951: Treaty of San Francisco; Japan officially renounces claims to Taiwan.

  • 1958: Second Taiwan Strait Crisis|823 Artillery War.

  • 1959: August 7 Flood: serious flooding in central Taiwan.

  • 1960: Free China Incident.

1961-1970
  • 1964: Shihmen Reservoir completed.

  • 1964: Peng Ming-min arrested for the draft of A Declaration of Formosan Self-salvation.


1971-1980
  • 1971: Republic of China|ROC is China and the United Nations|expelled from the UN.

  • 1975: President Chiang Kai-Shek dies.

  • 1978: The first north-south freeway (No. 1) completed.

  • 1979: The United States switched diplomatic recognition to the People's Republic of China; Taiwan Relations Act passed by the United States Congress.

  • 1979: Kaohsiung Incident.

  • 1979: Western Line Railroad fully electrified; North-Link Line completed.

  • 1980: Lin Family Murders on the anniversary of the 228 Incident.

  • 1980: Hsinchu Science Park founded.

1981-1990
  • 1981: Chen Wun-cheng (陳文成) Incident.

  • 1984: Labor Standards Law enacted.

  • 1986: Typhoon Wayne makes landfall in the west coast of central Taiwan.

  • 1986: Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), the first oppositional political party after World War II, formed illegally from the Tangwai|Tangwai movement.

  • 1986: Yuan T. Lee wins the Nobel Prize in chemistry.

  • 1987: Martial law lifted.

  • 1988: President Chiang Ching-kuo dies; Lee Teng-hui assumes the presidency.

  • 1988: Bans on publishing newspapers lifted.

  • 1989: Bans on establishing new commercial banks lifted.

  • 1990: Taiwan Wild Lily Student Movement in Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall.


1991-2000
  • 1991: Opposition parties legalized.

  • 1991: South-Link Line Railroad completed.

  • 1992: Fair Trade Law enacted.

  • 1992: The first democratic election of the Legislative Yuan.

  • 1994: National Health Insurance begins.

  • 1995: Third Taiwan Strait Crisis.

  • 1995: 228 Incident monument erected; President Lee Teng-hui publicly apologizes on behalf of the KMT.

  • 1996: Muzha Line of the Taipei Rapid Transit System completed.

  • 1996: The first direct presidential election; Lee Teng-hui elected.

  • 1997: Danshui Line of the Taipei Rapid Transit System completed.

  • 1997: Private cellular phone companies begin services.

  • 1999: Chi-Chi earthquake.

  • 2000: Chen Shui-bian, the opposition candidate from the DPP, ROC presidential election, 2000|elected president; first peaceful transfer of power.

  • 2000: Yilan Line Railroad electrified.




2001-2010
  • 2001: Three mini-links between Kinmen, Matsu Islands|Matsu and the mainland of Fujian begins.

  • 2001: Private fixed-line telephone companies begin services.

  • 2001: Serious flooding caused by Typhoon Nari.

  • 2002: Entry into the World Trade Organization.

  • 2002: Penetration rate of cellular phones exceeds 100%.

  • 2003: SARS outbreaks.

  • 2003: North-Link Line railroad electrified.

  • 2004: National Highway No. 3 (Taiwan)|Second north-south freeway completed.

  • 2004: 228 Hand-in-Hand Rally.

  • 2004: Chen Shui-bian ROC presidential election, 2004|re-elected after 3-19 shooting incident|being shot the day before.

  • 2004: Taipei 101 becomes World's Tallest Building.

  • 2005: The first direct commercial airplane flights from Beijing to Tapei for the lunar New Year.

  • 2005: The PRC passes "Anti-Secession Law of the People's Republic of China|anti-secession law" authorizing force against Taiwan.

  • 2005: 1.6 million people marched in Taipei against China's "anti-secession law". Similar marches occur across the world by Taiwanese nationalists. Protests against the PRC were held worldwide, including, but not limited to: Chicago, New York City, Washington DC, Paris, and Sydney.

  • 2005: The KMT visits the Mainland for the first time since 1949.

  • 2005: President Chen is invited and attends the funeral of Pope John Paul II. He is the first Taiwanese president to visit the Vatican.


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category: History of Taiwan

zh:台灣歷史年表

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