State · 1895

Republic of Formosa

A state of 1895 — under a year in East and Southeast Asia. It replaced Taiwan under Qing rule. It was replaced by Taiwan under Japanese rule. The atlas records 3 things within it — wars and battles 1 · people 2. Its line of rulers holds 2 people.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.

Stood: under a year; 1895 – 1895
Rulers: 2; the President of the Republic of Formosa
Within it: 3; recorded rows
Symbol: 1; on record, with years

Where it sits in time

Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold, what it replaced or followed and what replaced or followed it in grey.

Before and after

The states the record files it as replacing or following, and those that replaced or followed it - Wikidata's own statements, each read from this state's side.

Before it

Taiwan under Qing rule · replaces · 1683 – 1895

After it

Taiwan under Japanese rule · replaced by

Rulers

The line of President of the Republic of Formosa - the office this state names as its head of state.

left alive by a regular roadending not on record

Ruler	Reign	Length	How it ended · source	To the ruler before
Tang Jingsong	1895 – 1895	under a year	left office aliveread off the dates alone
Liu Yongfu	1895 – 1985	90 years	the term ends after the recorded deathread off the dates alone

2 rulers, 2 with terms dated as terms, covering 1895 – 1985. Median reign 45 years. 0 of 1 handovers irregular - a killing, a deposition, a rival claimant, a rising or a coup beside it. A blank in the last column means no kin on record, which is coverage, never “unrelated”.

Flag or arms

Each symbol with the years its own statement gives; the timeline flies the one of the year on screen.

flag, from 1895Flag of the Republic of Formosa (1895) · Public domain

What happened within it, by century

Every row the atlas hosts under this state, by the century it began in: wars and battles in red, risings, regime changes and massacres beside them, everything else in grey. A tall bar is a century the record is full for, which is partly a fact about Wikipedia.

1800 – 18993 rows · 1 wars and battles

Tang Jingsong · ruler · 1841 – 1903
Liu Yongfu · ruler · 1837 – 1917
Pescadores campaign · battle · 1895

Among all states

Each measure against the states that carry it, never against all of them: a bar is the share of those states below this one.

How long it stood1 years
stood longer than 3% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
Wars recorded per centurynone
had more wars on record per century than 44% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
How long a reign lasted, at the median90 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 99% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
Rulers on record2
has more rulers on record than 34% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

What led to it, and what came of it

The investigation's own picture: 1 cause the record names and 1 result, the strongest six of each at their own years, joined to the state by the kind of claim - a recorded statement solid, the article's sentence dashed, a theory dash-dot.

linked

Open the investigation: every row with its evidence, the conditions at the time, the theories condition by condition, and the succession analysed.

Open in the atlas

On the timeline, 1885 – 1905, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 1895, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q319881 (CC0) · symbols from Wikimedia Commons, each credited above · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.