- First Sino-Japanese War
- Battle of Pyongyang
- Battle of Pungdo
- 동학농민운동 일어남, 갑오개혁 청일 전쟁 발발KO
- June. The Gabo Reform is initiated. The reform ends in February the next year.
- 1892Issuance of the Baekdonghwa (백동화,白銅貨), the last coin issued during the Joseon Dynasty, with the enforcement of the New Currency Regulations (신식화폐조례,新式貨幣條例). Although it caused some chaos on which currency to use and its introduction triggered counterfeiting, it also stabilised the inflation within the peninsula.
- 1893March. The Korean Imperial Naval Academy is established. The academy produces approximately 160 officers before its close during and after the First Sino-Japanese War.
- 18958 October. Empress Myeongseong is assassinated by Japanese agents under Miura Goro.
- 1896January. Joseon begins to use the Gregorian calendar.
- 1896Independence Club
- 1896April. Tongnip sinmun, the first private modern Korean newspaper, is founded.
- 1896February. Gojong's internal exile to the Russian legation.
- 189611 February. King Gojong flees to the Russian legation in Seoul.
| - August — First Sino-Japanese War: War was officially declared between Japan and the Qing dynasty.
- Port Arthur massacre
- 中日甲午战争始。日军在旅顺进行大屠杀，超过两万人遇害。唐景崧任台湾省巡抚。興中會（中國國民黨前身）成立。ZH
- 1895Battle of Weihaiwei
- 1895Battle of Yingkou
- 1895Battle of Chiatung
- 1895Battle of Chiayi
- 1895Battle of Changhsing
- 1895April — First Sino-Japanese War: The Qing cede the Penghu islands and Taiwan to Japan in the Treaty of Shimonoseki
- 1895April — First Sino-Japanese War: The Qing dynasty signed the Treaty of Shimonoseki, under which it recognized the independence of Joseon, granted Japan MFN status and ceded to it Penghu, Taiwan and the Liaodong Peninsula.
| - Anglo-Japanese Treaty of Commerce and Navigation
- 1894 Shōnai earthquake
- August — First Sino-Japanese War starts.
- 18951895 Japanese invasion of Taiwan
- 1895랴오둥반도 반환 조약
- 1895April — The First Sino-Japanese War is won by the Japanese, resulting in the Treaty of Shimonoseki. It was the first major conflict between Japan and an overseas military power in modern times. For the first time, regional dominance in East Asia shifted from China to Japan. Korea became a vassal state of Japan.
- 1895May — Japanese invasion of Taiwan (1895)
- 18961896 Sanriku earthquake
- 1896June — Sanriku earthquake kills 22,066 people.
| - Pullman Strike
- 1894 San Juan earthquake
- Sunset Limited service opened on the second transcontinental route by Southern Pacific Railroad
- Coxey's Army
- Wilson–Gorman Tariff Act
- 1892General Electric Company founded
- 1892Sierra Club founded by John Muir
- 1892U.S. presidential election, 1892: Grover Cleveland elected president and Adlai E. Stevenson, vice president
- 1892Populist national convention held in Omaha
- 1892Homestead Strike
- 1892March 4, 1893 – Cleveland becomes the 24th president; Stevenson becomes the 23rd vice president
- 1893Panic of 1893
- 1893Sherman Silver Purchase Act
- 1893Columbian Exposition opens in Chicago
- 1895William Randolph Hearst purchases the New York Morning Journal
- 1895Lee Shelton shoots Billy Lyons, spawning countless ballads.
- 1895Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co. strikes down part of Wilson-Gorman Tariff
- 1896Gold discovered in the Yukon's Klondike
- 1896Utah becomes a state
- 1896Henry Ford builds his first automobile
- 1896Plessy v. Ferguson 163 US 537 1896 affirms the idea of "separate but equal"
- 1896U.S. presidential election, 1896: William McKinley elected president and Garret A. Hobart vice president
- 1896William Jennings Bryan delivers his Cross of Gold speech
- 1896March 4, 1897 – McKinley becomes the 25th president; and Hobart becomes the 24th vice president
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