- March. The Korean Imperial Naval Academy is established. The academy produces approximately 160 officers before its close during and after the First Sino-Japanese War.EN
- 1891February. The Korean Northern Cable Treaty (조선북로전선조약, 朝鮮北路電線條約) is signed by China and Korea. By this treaty, the telegraphic service from Seoul to Wonsan is in operation.
- 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.
- 1894甲午战争
- 1894平壤之戰
- 1894豐島海戰
- 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.
| - 1891金丹道事件
- 1891Foreign businessmen established the Shanghai Sharebrokers' Association in Shanghai.
- 1894August — First Sino-Japanese War: War was officially declared between Japan and the Qing dynasty.
- 1894여순 대학살
- 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威海衛之戰
- 1895营口之战
- 1895步月樓戰役
- 1895嘉義之役
- 1895火燒庄戰役
- 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.
| - 1891October — 1891 Mino–Owari earthquake: A strongest recorded inland earthquake of Japan.
- 1894日英通商航海条约
- 1894쇼나이 지진
- 1894August — First Sino-Japanese War starts.
- 1895乙未戰爭
- 1895遼南條約
- 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)
| - Panic of 1893EN
- Sherman Silver Purchase Act repealedEN
- Columbian Exposition opens in ChicagoEN
- 1891James Naismith invents basketball
- 1891Baltimore crisis
- 1891Hamlin Garland publishes Main-Travelled Roads
- 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
- 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
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