Timeline Tuesday 23 April 1895

Events on Tuesday 23 April 1895 1

• 1895 Triple Intervention Russia, Germany and France force Japan to return Liaodong Days after the Treaty of Shimonoseki, Russia, Germany, and France jointly pressured Japan to relinquish the Liaodong Peninsula it had won from China. Japan complied on 23 April 1895, and Russia later leased the territory for itself. The episode fueled Japanese resentment that contributed to the Russo-Japanese War a decade later.