Enlightenment · Southeast Asia · Politics

1740

Batavia Chinese Massacre

October 9, 1740

In the Dutch East India Company's capital on Java, authorities rounded up Chinese residents accused of plotting rebellion and handed them over to soldiers and mobs. For three days the canals ran red. Perhaps ten thousand Chinese were killed. The Qianlong Emperor, informed, shrugged: these were people who had abandoned their ancestral graves.

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Before and after in Southeast Asia

Before: 1688: Siamese Revolution Expels the French
After: 1750: Konbaung Dynasty Stirs in Upper Burma

Before and after in Politics

Before: September 9, 1739: Stono Rebellion
After: December 6, 1741: Elizabeth of Russia Seizes the Throne

Era

Enlightenment (1651–1800), one of 696 events from that era on Saeculum.

Sources

Wikipedia: 1740 Batavia massacre