Đông Du movement

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Phan Bội Châu organises sending young Vietnamese to study in Japan to prepare for the independence struggle.

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February 8, 1904 – September 5, 1905★★★★★

Japan defeats the Russian Empire in a war over Manchuria and Korea, the first modern victory of an Asian power over a European one.

War· Japan, Russia, China, South Korea

1907★★★★★

Reformist scholars open the Tonkin Free School in Hanoi to promote modern learning and the quốc ngữ script; the French close it within the year.

CulturePolitics· Vietnam

August 29, 1910★★★★★

The Japan–Korea Annexation Treaty takes effect, making Korea a Japanese colony until 1945.

PoliticsTreaty· South Korea, North Korea, Japan

1899 – 1901★★★★★

The anti-foreign Boxer movement besieges Beijing's legation quarter; an Eight-Nation Alliance intervenes and occupies Beijing in 1900.

WarRevolution· China

1899 – 1902★★★★★

After Spain cedes the Philippines to the United States, forces of the Philippine Republic fight American rule but are defeated.

War· Philippines, United States

June 5, 1911★★★★★

Nguyễn Tất Thành (later Hồ Chí Minh) leaves Saigon as a kitchen hand aboard the Amiral Latouche-Tréville, bound for France.

Politics· Vietnam, France