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The calendar uses 1912, the year of the establishment of the Republic of China (ROC) in Nanjing, as the first year. The ROC calendar follows the tradition of using the sovereign's era name and year of reign, as did previous dynasties of China. Months and days are numbered according to the Gregorian calendar. The ROC calendar has been in wide ...
16 January – Huang Lin-kai becomes the first person to be executed in Taiwan since 2020 after having been convicted for the 2013 rape and murder of his ex-girlfriend and the murder of her mother. [1] 21 January – A magnitude 6.4 earthquake hits Chiayi County, injuring 44 people. [2]
In Taiwan, spring travel is a significant event known as the Lunar New Year travel rush. The primary mode of transportation in western Taiwan is oriented in a north-south direction, facilitating long-distance travel between the urbanized north and rural hometowns in the south.
Supporters of the Taiwan independence movement have argued that Taiwanese retrocession was invalid since there is no precedent in international law in which an instrument of surrender effected a transfer of sovereignty, and they base their belief in part on both a declassified CIA report from March 1949 confirming that Taiwan was not a part of the Republic of China [14] and President Truman's ...
1 Taiwan under Republic of China rule (from 1945) 2 Taiwan under Japanese rule (1895–1945) 3 Taiwan under Qing rule (1683–1895) 4 Kingdom of Tungning (1662–1683)
The Second World War's hostilities came to a close on 2 September 1945, with the defeat of the Empire of Japan and Nazi Germany.Taiwan, which had been ceded to Japan by the Treaty of Shimonoseki in 1895, was placed under the control of the Kuomintang-led Republic of China (ROC) by the promulgation of General Order No. 1 and the signing of the Instrument of Surrender on that day.
Article 2. It is recognized that under Article 2 of the Treaty of Peace with Japan signed at the city of San Francisco in the United States of America on September 8, 1951 (hereinafter referred to as the San Francisco Treaty), Japan has renounced all right, title and claim to Taiwan (Formosa) and Penghu (the Pescadores) as well as the Spratly Islands and the Paracel Islands.
8 January – Taipei legislative by-election [1] 4 March – Nantou legislative by-election. [2]26 March – Hondouras terminated diplomatic relations with the ROC. [3]27 March – Former Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou becomes the first Taiwanese leader to visit mainland China since the end of the Chinese Civil War in 1949, meeting with China's Taiwan Affairs Office deputy chair Chen ...