1895 in China

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← 1894 1893 1892 1891 1890 1895 in China → 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900
Decades:	1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s
See also:	Other events of 1895 History of China  • Timeline  • Years

Events in the year 1895 in China.

• Guangxu Emperor (21st year)

• January 20 – February 12 – First Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Weihaiwei
• March 4 – First Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Yingkou
• April 17 – Treaty of Shimonoseki with Empire of Japan^[1]
  • islands of Taiwan and Penghu ceded to Japan
• April 23 – Triple Intervention by Russian Empire, German Empire and French Third Republic.^[2]
• May 5 – Prime Minister of Japan Ito Hirobumi announces withdrawal of Japanese troops from Liaodong Peninsula
• May–October – Taiwanese Resistance to Japanese Invasion
• August 1 – Kucheng Massacre
• Dungan Revolt (1895–96), a rebellion of various Chinese Muslim ethnic groups in Qinghai and Gansu against the Qing dynasty

• January 10 — Liu Wenhui, general and warlord of the Sichuan clique (d. 1976)
• February 8 — Khorloogiin Choibalsan, 1st leader of the Mongolian People's Republic (d. 1952)
• February 24 — Liu Tianhua, musician and composer (d. 1932)
• March 1 — Deng Yanda, military officer in the National Revolutionary Army (d. 1931)
• March 30 — Cai Hesen, early leader of the Chinese Communist Party (d. 1931)
• June 2 — Fu Zuoyi, military leader (d. 1974)
• June 27 — Jamsrangiin Sambuu, 9th Chairman of the Presidium of the State Great Khural of the Mongolian People's Republic (d. 1972)
• July 19 — Xu Beihong, painter (d. 1953)
• July 30 — Ch'ien Mu, historian, philosopher and writer (d. 1990)
• September 25 — Qian Zhuangfei, doctor, film director and secret agent for the Chinese Communist Party (d. 1935)
• October 10 — Lin Yutang, inventor, linguist, novelist, philosopher and translator (d. 1976)
• October 18 — Ji Hongchang, general and patriot (d. 1934)
• November 23 — Fang Chih, Taiwanese politician and diplomat (d. 1989)
• November 26 — Peng Shuzhi, early leader of the Chinese Communist Party (d. 1983)
• December 1 — Huang Shaohong, warlord of the New Guangxi Clique (d. 1966)
• December 14 — Nan Hanchen, 1st Governor of the People's Bank of China (d. 1967)
• Wang Fengge

• February 10 — Liu Buchan, naval officer (b. 1852)
• February 12 — Ding Ruchang, admiral of Beiyang Fleet (b. 1836)
• May 15 — Consort Lu, consort of Emperor Xianfeng (b. 1841)
• November 7 — Lu Haodong, revolutionary (b. 1868)
• Zhu Hongzhang