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Invalidated site: Rutgers-New Brunswick School of Arts and Sciences - Department of Political Science - Power Transitions, Status Dissatisfaction, and War: The Sino-Japanese War of 1894–1895 (PDF). Sep 17, 2026
Anniversary information added. Jul 25, 2026
Add new Web site: Warfare History Network - A Horrible Harbinger: The Sino-Japanese War of 1894. Mar 02, 2026
Add new Web site: Rutgers-New Brunswick School of Arts and Sciences - Department of Political Science - Power Transitions, Status Dissatisfaction, and War: The Sino-Japanese War of 1894–1895 (PDF). Dec 09, 2025
Add new Web site: Academy of Chinese Studies - The First Sino-Japanese War: an Overview. Oct 31, 2025
Add new Web site: CORE - The Impact of the Sino-Japanese War (1894–5) on Russian Foreign Policy (PDF). Sep 19, 2025
Questions and answers added. Mar 14, 2025
Add new Web site: Florida Atlantic University Libraries - Research Guides - Primary Sources: Wars and Conflicts - 1st Sino-Japanese War. Sep 18, 2024
Add new Web site: National Security Agency - The Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895 May 11 (PDF). Jul 05, 2024
Add new Web site: International Journal of Korean History - The Sino-Japanese War (1894-1895): Japanese National Integration and Construction of the Korean ?Other? May 25, 2024
Add new Web site: U.S. Naval Institute - Naval Strategy in the Sino-Japanese War. Oct 12, 2023
Corrected display issue. Mar 13, 2019
Media added. Dec 20, 2017
Add new Web site: Military History Encyclopedia on the Web - First Sino-Japanese War (1894-1895). Apr 10, 2016
Add new Web site: Academia - The First Sino- Japanese War (1894� 1895). Apr 10, 2016
Add new Web site: GlobalSecurity.org - Sino-Japanese War 1894-1895. Apr 10, 2016
Add new Web site: Alpha History - Sino-Japanese War. Nov 06, 2015
Added new Web site: The World War II Multimedia Database - The Second Sino-Japanese War. Dec 09, 2008
Media added. Dec 01, 2008
Added new Web site: The Russo-Japanese War Research Society - The Sino - Japanese War (1894-1895). Nov 25, 2008
Added new Web site: The World War II Multimedia Database - The Second Sino-Japanese War (1894 - 95). Nov 25, 2008
Added new Web site: Wars of the World - Sino-Japanese War. Nov 25, 2008
Added new Web site: How Stuff Works - History - Sino-Japanese War of 1894. Nov 25, 2008
Article updated and transliteration changed to Pinyin. Sep 05, 2008
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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