Kwantung Leased Territory

Kwantung Leased Territory was a colony in Manchuria (East Asia) that lasted from 1905 to 1945 CE, about 40 years. Its people spoke Japonic languages (Japanese, Ryukyuan).

Japan's leased territory at the tip of the Liaodong peninsula and base of the Kwantung Army, whose officers staged the Mukden incident in 1931 to seize all of Manchuria.

See Kwantung Leased Territory on the interactive timeline

Facts

Dates

1905 to 1945 CE

Duration

40 years

Type

Colony

Region

Manchuria, East Asia

Language family

Japonic

Capital

Port Arthur, Dairen (Dalian)

Came from

• Russian Kwantung and the Chinese Eastern Railway 1898 to 1905 CE

Became

• Manchukuo 1932 to 1945 CE

Events in East Asia during its time

• 1911 Xinhai Revolution
• 1937 War with Japan and the Nanjing massacre
• 1945 Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Neighbours in East Asia

• Qing dynasty 1636 to 1912 CE
• Empire of Japan 1868 to 1947 CE
• Ganden Phodrang (Dalai Lama government) 1642 to 1951 CE
• Republic of China (mainland) 1912 to 1949 CE
• Portuguese Macau 1557 to 1999 CE
• Manchuria under the Qing 1644 to 1907 CE
• British Hong Kong 1841 to 1997 CE
• Japanese Taiwan 1895 to 1945 CE
• Japanese Korea 1910 to 1945 CE
• Beiyang government 1912 to 1928 CE

Elsewhere in the world at the same time

• Ethiopian Empire (Solomonic dynasty) 1270 to 1974 CE, North and West Africa
• Ottoman Empire 1299 to 1922 CE, Europe
• Ottoman Empire 1299 to 1922 CE, Middle East
• Portuguese Empire 1415 to 1999 CE, Europe
• Kingdom of Kongo c. 1390 to 1914 CE, Central and Southern Africa
• United States 1776 CE to the present, North America
• United Kingdom 1801 CE to the present, Europe
• Haiti 1804 CE to the present, Mesoamerica and Caribbean
• Russian Empire 1721 to 1917 CE, Europe
• Dutch East Indies 1800 to 1949 CE, Southeast Asia

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