1917 in Taiwan
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{{Year in Taiwan|1917}}
Events from the year 1917 in Taiwan, Empire of Japan.
Incumbents
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Events
- 5 January – The deadliest part of the 1916–1917 Nantou earthquakes occurred, registering at 6.2 on the Richter scale with a shallow hypocentre, killing 54 people.{{cite book |url=http://scman.cwb.gov.tw/eqv5/research/21vol/MOTC-CWB-87-E-11.pdf |title=台灣地區十大災害地震圖集 (A Collection of Images of Ten Great Earthquake Disasters in the Taiwan Region) |language=Chinese |chapter=Preface |publisher=Central Weather Bureau |author=中央氣象局 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110826205454/http://scman.cwb.gov.tw/eqv5/research/21vol/MOTC-CWB-87-E-11.pdf |archivedate=2011-08-26 |url-status=dead |accessdate=2009-08-08 }}
- 12 February – Reverend William Campbell returns to China.{{r|臺|page=250}}
- 24 July – Construction of the Yilan line began.{{r|年|page=107}}
- 22 October – Prince Naruhisa Kitashirakawa and his wife Fusako visited Taiwan.{{r|年|page=108}}
- 29 December — The Waseda University baseball team came to Taiwan.{{r|臺|page=250}}
Births
- 6 January – Koo Chen-fu, businessman, diplomat, and film producer.{{cite news |last = Yeh |first = Lindy |title = The Koo family: a century in Taiwan |work = Taipei Times |url = http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2002/04/15/132003 |date = April 15, 2002 |access-date = 2014-12-22 |page = 3 |archive-date = 7 May 2019 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190507023327/http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2002/04/15/132003 |url-status = live }}
- 18 January – Wang Yung-ching, businessman.
- 10 February – Chen Ta-ju, lyricist.{{cite news|last1=Tsai|first1=Wen-ting|translator-first1=Glenn|translator-first2=David|translator-last1=Smith|translator-last2=Mayer|title=Taiwanese Pop Will Never Die|url=https://www.taiwan-panorama.com/Articles/Details?Guid=ef37bc90-db86-4b0f-a297-380c40ad822c&langId=3&CatId=10|access-date=10 March 2025|work=Taiwan Panorama|date=May 2002}} Cited in: {{cite journal|last1=Ho|first1=Wai-Chung|title=Music and cultural politics in Taiwan|journal=International Journal of Cultural Studies|date=December 2007|volume=10|issue=4|pages=463–483|doi=10.1177/1367877907083080|url=http://ics.sagepub.com/content/10/4/463.abstract|citeseerx=10.1.1.1025.5929|s2cid=144602597}} and {{cite journal |last1=Ho |first1=Wai-Chung |title=The production and reproduction of Chinese and Taiwanese identities in Taiwan's popular songs |journal=Social History |date=2015 |volume=40 |issue=4 |pages=518–537 |doi=10.1080/03071022.2015.1076125 |jstor=24887050}}
References
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{{cite book |editor=緒方武歲|title=《臺灣大年表》|year=1938 |publisher=緒方武歲/臺北印刷株式會社|location=臺北市}}
{{cite book |author=王育德著，黃國彥譯 |title=《臺灣──苦悶的歷史》 |publisher=草根出版 |isbn= |date=October 1999 |edition=初版二刷}}
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