Open Door Notes
September 6, 1899
US Secretary of State John Hay circulated notes to the great powers asking them to respect equal commercial access to China within their spheres of influence. The powers responded with polite evasion, which Hay took as assent. The Open Door policy would govern - or at least describe - American thinking on China for fifty years.
In context
Also in 1899 (8 other events on record)
- Second Boer War · Africa · War
- Philippine-American War · Southeast Asia · War
- Boxer Rebellion Begins · East Asia · War
- Aspirin Marketed · Europe · Science
- First Hague Convention · Europe · Politics
- Black Week · Africa · War
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Era
Industrial Age (1801–1900), one of 513 events from that era on Saeculum.