Industrial AgeGovernment & Law Japan annexes Korea 1910Major After making Korea a protectorate in 1905, Japan formally annexes it. Korea remains a Japanese colony until 1945. ▲ MattersSaveShareTrace roots Longest chain: The Big Bang → First stars ignite → Supernovae seed heavy elements → The Sun forms → Earth forms → First oceans → First life → Photosynthesis evolves → Great Oxidation Event → Complex cells (eukaryotes) → Multicellular life → First animals → Cambrian Explosion → First vertebrates → Jawed fish → Fish walk onto land → The amniotic egg → The Great Dying → Dinosaurs appear → Asteroid ends the dinosaurs → Early primates → Apes split from monkeys → Human line splits from chimpanzees → Walking upright → First stone tools → Genus Homo appears → Homo erectus → Control of fire → Habitual fire and cooking → Homo sapiens appears → Complex language → Natufian villages → Oldest known bread → Agriculture begins → Irrigation → Uruk and the first cities → Cylinder seals → Writing (cuneiform) → Babylonian mathematics → Babylonian astronomical diaries → Thales and natural philosophy → Trial and death of Socrates → Plato's Academy → Aristotle's Lyceum → Alexander's conquests → Death of Alexander and the Hellenistic kingdoms → Seleucid Empire founded → Parthian Empire founded → Sasanian Empire → Birth of Muhammad → Muhammad's first revelations → The Hijra → Conquest of Mecca → Death of Muhammad and the Rashidun caliphate → Arab conquests → Abbasid Caliphate → Battle of Talas → Paper reaches the Islamic world → House of Wisdom → Ibn al-Haytham's Book of Optics → Bacon's Novum Organum → Royal Society → Papin's steam digester → Newcomen steam engine → Watt's steam engine → Commercial steamboat → Perry opens Japan → Meiji Restoration → First Sino-Japanese War → Japan defeats Russia → Japan annexes Korea Community notesLoading notes… Learn more ranked by votesDocumentbritannica.comKorea under Japanese rule (Britannica) ↗Editor's pickBookBruce CumingsKorea's Place in the Sun: A Modern History ↗Editor's pickBookAlexis DuddenJapan's Colonization of Korea ↗Editor's pickVideoSearch on YouTubeJapan annexation of Korea 1910 ↗Editor's pickVideoSearch on YouTubeKorea under Japanese rule ↗Editor's pick