Boxer Rebellion Begins
November 2, 1899
In Shandong, members of a martial-arts society who called themselves the Righteous and Harmonious Fists - Boxers to foreigners - began attacking missionaries and Chinese Christians. Cixi, seeing an opportunity, encouraged them. Within a year they would besiege the Beijing legations, and eight foreign powers would march on the Chinese capital.
In context
Also in 1899 (8 other events on record)
- Second Boer War · Africa · War
- Philippine-American War · Southeast Asia · War
- Aspirin Marketed · Europe · Science
- First Hague Convention · Europe · Politics
- Open Door Notes · East Asia · Politics
- Black Week · Africa · War
Before and after in East Asia
Before and after in War
Era
Industrial Age (1801–1900), one of 513 events from that era on Saeculum.
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