The Boxer Rebellion (In Our Time)
1899 · Resource
In the hot summer of 1900, Peking, the capital of China, was under heavy siege. But the surrounding forces were not foreign, they were Chinese. This was the Boxer Rebellion, the moment when the 'Society of Righteous and Harmonious Fists', known as the boxers, purged China of foreign merchants and missionaries. The Boxers had came out of the northern province
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Around 1899
- Einstein's Annus Mirabilis (1905)
- Adolf Hitler (1889)
- Pop music: the 1900s (1900)
- Wright Brothers first flight (1903)
- Van Gogh's The Starry Night (1889)
- Mao Zedong (1893)
- Federation of Australia (1901)
- Einstein's miracle year (Annus Mirabilis) (1905)
- Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907)
- Wright Brothers' first powered flight (1903)