The Boxer Rebellion was an uprising in northern China against foreign influence and Christian missionaries. It was led by a secret society known in English as the Boxers, because its members practised martial arts, and it grew in the province of Shandong at a time of drought, economic hardship and resentment of foreign powers. In 1900 the Boxers entered Beijing and, with the backing of the Empress Dowager Cixi, besieged the foreign legations for about two months, while Chinese Christians were killed in large numbers. An international force of eight nations relieved the legations in August 1900 and occupied the capital. The Boxer Protocol of 1901 required China to pay a large indemnity, and the Qing dynasty, further weakened, fell in 1912.
Before and after
- 11 June 1899Birth of Yasunari Kawabata
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- 21 July 1899Birth of Ernest Hemingway
- 29 July 1899Founding of the Permanent Court of Arbitration
- from August 1899 to September 1901Boxer Rebellion
- 13 August 1899Birth of Alfred Hitchcock
- 24 August 1899Birth of Jorge Luis Borges
- 31 August 1899Founding of Olympique de Marseille
- 11 October 1899Boer Wars
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