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when humans started visting island taiwan
The earliest evidence of human habitation dates back 20,000 to 30,000 years, when the Taiwan Strait was exposed by lower sea levels as a land bridge. Around 5,000 years ago farmers from the southeast Chinese coast settled on the island. -
taiwan is taken over by chinese
History of Taiwan since 1945. As a result of the surrender of Japan at the end of World War II, the island of Taiwan was placed under the governance of the Republic of China (ROC), ruled by the Kuomintang (KMT), on 25 October 1945. -
Republic of Formosa ends
The Qing Dynasty and Japan Empire signed the Shimonoseki Treaty that saw the region taken over by Japanese armies. The Taiwan resistant notables declared Formosa a republic on May 23, 1895. The sovereign ended on October 21, 1895 when the Japanese took over Tainan capital city -
When Taiwan was founded
Taiwan was founded in Januray 1 1912 -
chineses civil war
The Chinese Civil War was a civil war in China fought between the Kuomintang (KMT)-led government of the Republic of China (ROC) and the Communist Party of China (CPC) lasting intermittently between 1927 and 1949. The war is generally divided into two phases with an interlude: from August 1927 to 1937, the KMT-CPC Alliance collapsed during the Northern Expedition, and the Nationalists controlled most of China.
