After the defeat of China in the Sino-Japanese War of 1895, the Pescadores and Taiwan were ceded to the Japanese who retained them as a colony until their defeat in the Second World War.
清光緒年間中日戰爭，清師敗北，被迫簽訂馬關條約，台、澎失守割讓。民國卅四年台灣光復，次年正式成立澎湖縣政府。