(Reuters) -China said on Wednesday it would hold a ceremony to mark the 80th anniversary of the “retrocession” of Taiwan to Chinese rule at the end of World War Two.

Here is a timeline about Taiwan, China, the war and its aftermath:

1895 – Defeated in the First Sino-Japanese War, China’s Qing dynasty signs the Treaty of Shimonoseki ceding sovereignty over Taiwan to Japan.

1911 – The Qing dynasty is overthrown in a revolution and the following year the Republic of China is declared.

1927 – Chinese Communist Party stages an uprising against the government, viewed as the start of China’s civil war.

1931 – Japan invades northeast China’s Manchuria.

1937 – Japan invades the rest of China.

1943 – Chiang, U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill sign t

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