- January. Joseon begins to use the Gregorian calendar.EN
- 2 July. Establishment of the Independence Club by Seo Jae-pil (서재필,徐載弼).EN
- April. Tongnip sinmun, the first private modern Korean newspaper, is founded.EN
- February. Gojong's internal exile to the Russian legation.EN
- 11 February. King Gojong flees to the Russian legation in Seoul.EN
- 1894日清戦争
- 1894平壌の戦い
- 1894豊島沖海戦
- 1894동학농민운동 일어남, 갑오개혁 청일 전쟁 발발
- 1894June. The Gabo Reform is initiated. The reform ends in February the next year.
- 18958 October. Empress Myeongseong is assassinated by Japanese agents under Miura Goro.
- 1897대한제국 고종이 제위에 등극하고, 대한제국을 수립해 연호를 광무로 고침
- 1897October. King Gojong proclaims the Korean Empire and is crowned at the religious shrine Hwangudan in Seoul.
- 1897February. King Gojong established the Board of Marshals. All military power was henceforth centralized to the Emperor.
- 1897November. John McLeavy Brown constructs Pagoda Park.
- 1897September. The Donghwa Pharmacy opened in Seoul, Korea. The established corporation, now known as the Dong Wha Pharmacy Corporation., Limited (동화약품(주), 同和藥品(株)). The company, now the oldest pharmacy-based corporation in Korea, has products that are nationally famous, with its 'folding fan' trademark.
- 189720 February. King Gojong returned to the palace after 1 year of refuge at the Russian legation.
- 1898May. The Jong-hyun Catholic Church (종현본당, 鐘峴本堂) was finished of construction. It was the first Gothic architecture to be built in Korea. It was later called the Myeongdong Cathedral, the centre of the Korean 20th century. It is registered as a national historical landmark.
- 1898January. Independence Gate is constructed in Seoul.
- 1898January. The Seoul Electric Corporation (한성전기회사, 漢城電氣會社), or the Korea-American Electric Corporation (한미전기회사,韓美電氣會社) was opened as a joint-venture company between Americans Henry Collbran, H.R. Bostwick and Emperor Gojong.
- 1898만민공동회 개최, 독립신문에 여권 통문을 발표
- 1898August. Brown reported blueprint of the Pan-Korean railway to Gojong.
- 1898September 5. The Imperial Capital Gazette released its first print. The president of the company was Nam Gung-euk (남궁억,南宮檍).
- 1898September. Kim Hong-nyuk (김홍륙,金鴻陸) attempted assassination of Gojong by putting excess amount of opium in his coffee. It is to be noted that Gojong was a coffee lover. While Gojong spat out the coffee upon drinking it, his son Sunjong drank the opium-tainted coffee and suffered from mental and physical disabilities from the incident.
| - 1894August — First Sino-Japanese War: War was officially declared between Japan and the Qing dynasty.
- 1894旅順虐殺事件
- 1894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。
- 1895威海衛の戦い
- 1895영구 전투
- 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.
- 1898戊戌の変法
- 1898September — Empress Dowager Cixi puts the Guangxu Emperor under house arrest
- 1898旅順・大連租借に関する露清条約
- 1898September — Empress Dowager Cixi comes to power
- 1898September — Zhang Yuanji recommends ending Manchu-Han differences and dissolving the Eight Banners system
- 1898September — The Guangxu Emperor was removed from the imperial palace in a coup organized by Cixi and Ronglu, the Viceroy of Zhili.
| - 明治三陸地震
- June — Sanriku earthquake kills 22,066 people.EN
- 1894日英通商航海条約
- 1894庄内地震
- 1894August — First Sino-Japanese War starts.
- 1895台湾征服戦争
- 1895遼東還付条約
- 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)
- 1897貨幣法
- 1898니시-로젠 협정
- 1898第1次大隈内閣成立(日本初の政党内閣)。
| - Gold discovered in the Yukon's KlondikeEN
- Utah becomes a stateEN
- Henry Ford builds his first automobileEN
- プレッシー対ファーガソン裁判
- U.S. presidential election, 1896: William McKinley elected president and Garret A. Hobart vice presidentEN
- William Jennings Bryan delivers his Cross of Gold speechEN
- March 4, 1897 – McKinley becomes the 25th president; and Hobart becomes the 24th vice presidentEN
- 1894Pullman Strike
- 1894San Juan earthquake
- 1894Sunset Limited service opened on the second transcontinental route by Southern Pacific Railroad
- 1894Coxey's Army
- 1894Wilson–Gorman Tariff Act, including income tax
- 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
- 1897Lattimer massacre
- 1897Intentona de Yauco
- 1897テネシー州制100周年記念万国博覧会
- 1897Dingley tariff
- 1897Boston subway completed
- 1898パリ条約
- 1898Hawaii annexed
- 1898USS Maine explodes in Havana, Cuba harbor, precipitating the Spanish–American War
- 1898ウィルミントン暴動
- 1898Newlands Resolution
- 1898Battle of Virden
- 1898American Anti-Imperialist League organized
- 1898Battle of Sugar Point
- 1898The City of Greater New York is created through the annexation of Brooklyn, Western Queens County, and Staten Island into New York City
- 1898De Lôme Letter
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